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The Russian Matrix
On their TV channels, Ukrainians and Russians have been getting completely different versions of what has been happening in Ukraine in recent months. Just like The Matrix. One of the main elements of...
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Clawing at the sky: fighting for political prisoners in Syria
"It is the most monstrous thing they can do to the Syrian people”. Fadwa Mahmoud, mother, wife and comrade to forcibly disappeared leftist activists, tells us her story of pain and perseverance on the...
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This week's window on the Middle East - September 24, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Anti-Syrian sentiment in Lebanon.Anti-Syrian sentiment in LebanonOn...
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Your fatwa does not apply here
Karima Bennoune has won the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction with her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism. She spoke to Deniz...
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A quick note on party memberships in the UK
The figures for political parties in the UK have changed significantly in the last few days. Here's an update.Since the referendum, there has been quite a change in party membership figures across the...
View ArticleThe Islamic State war: Iraq's echo
A major new war has begun in the Middle East. But the Islamic State movement is prepared, and the precedents are bleak.George W Bush, the United States president, was unequivocal in his response to the...
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ISIS airstrikes: how to rehabilitate dictators and destroy the revolution
The American intervention will strengthen the hand of Arab autocrats against their opponents, Islamists and non-Islamists alike. It lends credibility to the 'war against terror' rhetoric that these...
View ArticleAlternatives to military intervention: a commando team of mediators
TheAmmerdown Invitation has initiated here a debate on an alternative security policy for the UK. Mediation is a key alternative to the “militarism” the signatories bemoan.One of the most pressing...
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The People's Climate March and the story of Zane
Our story is one of floodwater carrying toxic landfill gas that kills. Our quest is for answers, and to protect communities at risk. Last Sunday, a sunny September afternoon, Britain marched with the...
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Natural gas diplomacy and the Ukraine crisis
Natural gas diplomacy is rather like gunboat diplomacy – only effective if the other side has no gunboats. The current crisis in Ukraine has again foisted natural gas diplomacy to the fore of great...
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Azerbaijan and the Ukraine crisis
The crisis in Ukraine put the Azerbaijani government in an uncomfortable position. The crisis in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan movement, and the flight of President Viktor Yanukovych, put...
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EU accession and the Ukraine crisis
EU accession might be said to have ignited the Ukraine crisis. But it's still a long way off. When Ukraine’s newly elected president Petro Poroshenko was inaugurated on 7 June, he announced his...
View ArticleEurope heading for the rocks: a reply to Varoufakis and Galbraith
Frances Coppola responds to ‘Whither Europe?’, authored by Yanis Varoufakis and James Galbraith. The Euro crisis is over, yes? Not so fast. It has simply moved from acute to chronic.Things are quiet in...
View ArticleFurther modest suggestions: a reply to Varoufakis and Galbraith
Simon Wren-Lewis responds to ‘Whither Europe?’, authored by Yanis Varoufakis and James Galbraith. The European Monetary Union needs to be improved, not transformed, and it is this obsession with...
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Social cleansing not social housing: how councils use poor people against...
This week Focus E15 Mothers showed how London councils are prising out tenants, replacing their homes with expensive private housing. Property guardian companies make this social cleansing...
View ArticlePutting Britain back together
Constitutional reform must be an evolutionary process, not a rush job imposed from above for party political reasons.The shock of the Scottish referendum and the vow to give more powers to the Scottish...
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The first privatised NHS hospital - success or smoke and mirrors?
The first privatised NHS hospital, Circle Hinchingbrooke, is lauded as 'partnership' future by influential figures - but financial instability, deeply unhappy staff, and poor care are highlighted in a...
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Does the NHS need 'disruptors, heretics, radicals and mavericks'?
Banksy-style graphics can't disguise that the 'change leaders' in the NHS are set on ever more marketisation, not genuine radicalism.Front page of NHS IQ White Paper - Keep Your Coins, I want...
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Georgia and the Ukraine crisis
Georgians see the struggle for Ukrainian sovereignty as an analogue of their own fate. Russia’s annexation of Crimea is reshaping the geopolitical map of Europe and sending ripples of apprehension...
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Security options and the Ukraine crisis
The events of the last several months have proven that all existing mechanisms and arrangements to provide for Ukraine’s security have been ineffective.The events of the last several months have proven...
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