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Has the Russian opposition lost its way?
From the euphoria of last winter, reality has bitten Russia's opposition. President Putin is resurgent, popular interest in politics is waining and doubts are emerging about the self-styled leader of...
View ArticleGuns, war and the domestic battlefield
As guns proliferate in a worldwide market with few controls, many get diverted from state and rebel armies to petty criminals and 'the man in the street'. Sexual and domestic violence is becoming more...
View ArticleWhere we must stand: African women in an age of war
Whether one considers the direct effects of military rule and conflict on women, or the global economic implications of the US war-on-terror, militarism threatens to strip away all the 20th century...
View ArticleThe Minister and Me
A poem by Isabella Matambanadzo. Part of a series of poems by African feminist writers for 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence.In the morning, The HonourableMinister For The Territorial...
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France and the veil – the dark side of the law
French anti-veil laws are steeped in racism and have opened the door to abuse against Muslims, argues Valeria Costa-Kostritsky . In 2004, France introduced the law on “secularity and conspicious...
View ArticleHunt-Black: a final stab by the UK press at undermining Leveson
Tomorrow, Lord Justice Leveson delivers his report following a public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press. The press are terrified that he will recommend statutory...
View ArticleDenying UKIP media coverage is bad for democracy
A former party Vice Chair of the UK Independence Party asks why it takes a scandal to gain media coverage for the growing party. What chance political diversity when parties outside the ‘big three’...
View ArticleUKIP, 'child catchers' and dignity
The latest scandal over foster services and the UKIP party reveal how low the British press can stoop. Will Leveson help at all?Last week on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Jim Naughtie monstered Joyce...
View ArticleDehumanisation and terrorism
The war on terror has focused many discussions on the identity of the perceived perpetrators. These debates fail to incorporate how victims of terrorism are themselves denied their voice....
View ArticlePost-Dayton Bosnia: the other path
The virtuous circle initiated by the Dayton-Paris agreement has turned into a vicious one. As elsewhere in Europe, federal constructs are overrun by centrifugal forces. Bosnia finds itself is a similar...
View ArticleRecognizing the new Syrian National Coalition alone will not end the war in...
The peculiar enthusiasm of former colonizers of the Arab world, like France, for recognizing Syria’s representatives without waiting for the Syrian people to decide through ballots (not bullets), has...
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Land, loss and longing: women and equalities in the north of Israel Palestine
Expropriation of their land by the Israeli state is an ongoing injustice for its resident Palestinians. Cynthia Cockburn recalls the 'politics of land' in an alliance forged between Israeli Jewish and...
View ArticleThree Syrian Interviews
The best way to understand what is going on in Syria is by listening to what Syrians have to say about their own country. Here, you are introduced to three different voices from the Syrian opposition,...
View ArticleCharter 12: Estonia's stab at direct democracy
After Iceland, Estonia is the second European country to engage in a radically novel democratic experiment. Against growing contempt for corrupt and out of touch political elites, Estonian civil...
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An iron chain of bondage: lessons from the Knights of Labor
As modern workers, we have much to learn from the rich tradition of labour republicanism in America. The second piece in our Democratic Wealth series, hosted with Politics in Spires. Knights of Labor...
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Corruption, corruption, corruption
Russia’s higher education institutions are popularly assumed to be among the most corrupt in the country. Augusto Come considers how the perceptions and realities of corruption in education will...
View ArticleReactions to Leveson's report on the British press
Two of the most prominent campaigners for wide-reaching reform of the British press, Hacked Off and Media Reform, respond to the long-awaited Leveson Inquiry report.Today marked the end of a 16-month...
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Fewer Americans behind bars?
For the third straight year, fewer Americans were under "correctional supervision"--a catch-all description that includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole--in 2011. Do these slight changes in the...
View ArticleThe Prison Policy Initiative
The Prison Policy Initiative was founded in 2001 by Peter Wagner. While they are most famous for their work documenting how mass incarceration skews American democracy, they're also demonstrating how...
View ArticleRoseline lives! Court overrules UK government decision to condemn kidney...
Roseline Akhalu successfully appeals against decision to deport her to Nigeria where she would die within four weeks. OurKingdom, which has reported on this case since May 2012, publishes today’s...
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