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The Bulgarian winter of protests
In the last week of February, after days of protests across the country, the Bulgarian government headed by Boyko Borisov resigned. What happened? What came after? And what comes next?A protest in...
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Farewell Chavez: Latin America loses its Nehru
His success lay in the fact that he became a voice for that which did not conform to the status quo in international politics, and he gained his legitimacy from his success. The personalities of...
View ArticleRealpolitik and disastrous consequences: 10 years on from Iraq, 25 from...
Deriding justifications for the invasion of Iraq on the basis of weapons of mass destruction disregards long-standing efforts to recognize Kurdish populations victim to Saddam's chemical weapons...
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Mission Afghanistan
India must take on a global leadership role, providing both economic and military aid together with regional/global partners, in support of the Afghan government.The recent visit of Afghan president...
View ArticleCSW : will the global women's rights movement prevail?
“Violence against women and girls is not in anyone's culture, tradition or religion. This is about power, inequality, a lack of political will and courage to work towards a better world," says Shareen...
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First encounters with the Battle of Algiers
On February 6, 2013, the University of Sussex History Department held a special screening of the Battle of Algiers, followed by discussion with Yasmin El Derby from the Middle East and North Africa...
View ArticleChoose Your Charter! Cameron's and the Opposition response to Leverson compared
On Monday 18 March a potentially historic vote on whether and how the UK press should be regulated will be voted on by the House of Commons. This sets out the case for the opposition against the...
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Gas or nuclear?
As the UK negotiates for new nuclear power and ever more gas is discovered, we can't avoid the unpalatable question of which is least bad for the environmentThe Treasury has been wrestling with...
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The practice of harm in The Battle of Algiers
It is the French colonisers, after all, who are bound to international conventions that govern the practice of harm, not small groups of individuals like the Algerians. Cicero first posited that the...
View ArticleTwo girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter three
In the third installment of the story, Buick enters new territories with his first girlfriend, Diana. (Read the first and second chapters)BLOOM(shrinks) Silk, mistress said! O crinkly! Scrapy!...
View ArticleOld stories target New World pope
The memory of the anti-Bergoglio Trinity returned with a vengeance this week, the moment that the Argentine’s elevation to the papacy became known.Thanks go to the author and the Buenos Aires Herald...
View ArticleThe cardinal's knowing or unknowing surprise
Jorge Bergoglio, who has given limited testimony in court, citing clerical privilege, has established as a fact that he successfully intervened to save the lives of the two priests by working behind...
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Hugo Chávez's afterlife: three scenarios
The death of Venezuela's president raises the question of his place in the labyrinth of Latin American populism, say Fabián Bosoer & Federico FinchelsteinThe body of Hugo Chávez was laid to rest in...
View ArticleThe limits of liberalism: otherness and the crisis of Europe
The intrinsic necessity of a subordinated, non-European, other to the making of a moral and political economy is not just built into Europe, but into the very idea of liberal citizenship in the modern...
View ArticleIs she a victim or an illegal immigrant? The UK Border Agency decides
Officials who identify victims of trafficking are being judged by how many people they eject from Britain. Is that wise?“How can you have an organisation making decisions on a victim of trafficking...
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“Free Content” – Why openDemocracy is infinitely more
The 'free content' here isn't commodified - it makes it easier for us to build the world we want to live in. Do we believe in it enough and will you be part of that belief?In the last few weeks, we’ve...
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The new war in Europe?
The European Union was founded in reaction to what I call ‘old war’ – the wars of the twentieth century. Even though material interests ought logically to lead to increased political cooperation,...
View ArticleTheir secret is out, but for G4S and friends ‘abject disregard' for human...
Landlords get richer. Women are harassed in their homes. The UK Border Agency's contractor G4S is using subcontractors who are not up to the task. The newly privatised market in asylum housing is a...
View ArticleThe empathy gap: from the Iraq war to drone warfare
It is an odd coincidence, the sudden bright spotlight on drones at the same time as the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, but it raises at least one common question: what is our attitude toward the...
View ArticleWhy an arms trade treaty won't stop the arms trade
As UN negotiations on the proposed arms trade treaty resume, why are long-time arms control campaigners sceptical of an agreement? An op-ed from Ann Feltham of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)....
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