The climate shift: think and prepare
The imminence of severe climate disruption makes the work of those planning for the event more vital than ever. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have passed the 400 parts-per-million mark...
View ArticleNo weapons for the rebels
The potential for arms to be used against Syrian civilians who have suffered most throughout the two years of civil war is not among the primary considerations of the arms-exporting west. One may...
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The diverse revolt of Turkish youth and the production of the political
Some of the banners read “we are not a political party, we are the people”, “we claim religion without AKP, Atatürk without CHP, motherland without MHP, Kurdish rights without BDP, we are the...
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Golden Dawn, Brexit and populism: weekly comments roundup
A look at this week's best reader comments on our Can Europe make it? debate. This last week on Can Europe Make it? focused on the seemingly endless saga of Greece's political and social meltdown....
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Post-growth: a green republican economy
We live in societies with economies nested within them, nested in turn in the non-human world. A green republican conception of political economy recognises this reality, and challenges the priority...
View ArticleFrom the war on terror to austerity: a lost decade for women and human rights
Patriarchy, militarism and neoliberalism have created a matrix in which women and women’s rights can never flourish because none of them place human values and human dignity at their core. Heather...
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G4S and their human rights problem
Protesters disrupt security company's annual meeting. A jury questions the death of a detainee. Spooks and Big Money mingle with ministers at Bilderberg. Scenes from a Le Carré novel? A difficult day...
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Franco-German cooperation: productive tension
The quest for solutions to the Eurozone crisis has been interspersed by Franco-German controversies. But national differences, which are inevitable in the economic sphere, do not impede vital...
View ArticleThe Iranian nuclear crisis and the dialectic of world order
Given the track record of failed attempts at diplomacy, it is questionable whether some tacit agreement can bring a long-term resolution to this new Cold War. There is no less at stake than a...
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On disillusionment
Discontent may soon be the norm across all sections of Russian society. But its unlikely to benefit the opposition or professional classes, says Dmitry Travin. Russia viewed from the KremlinThe...
View ArticleWho is responsible for Iraq’s sectarian violence?
These developments in Syria, with the involvement of Iraqis, have intensified and widened the divisions among Iraqis themselves. All the signs are that Iraq is heading towards a sectarian war reviving...
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Turkey’s protests: the limits of hubris
Turkey is in turmoil. Hundreds of thousands are protesting on the country’s main squares against a whole set of grievances. They are facing extreme police brutality. But the AKP dream of unfettered...
View ArticleThe neoliberal epidemic striking healthcare
Healthcare systems across the world are facing a 'man-made disaster' - the imposition of market-style 'reforms' that are neither appropriate nor effective. Journalist John Lister introduces his new...
View ArticleThe Woolwich attack in Britain demonstrated an evolving and more rational terror
The Woolwich attack can be seen as a more scrupulous, even moral, development within terror tactics. It tells us nothing about the "Muslim community", and reveals the success of the security forces...
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After austerity: a new limit to growth?
The current focus on policies for returning to economic growth threatens to obscure the problems of sustaining growth on a finite planet. A new study hopes to respond to this threat. Blankney Fen,...
View ArticleThe Severn Trent takeover - corporate profiteering and tax avoidance on...
Severn Trent is the latest water company to be targeted for takeover by a motley group of investment funds. An analysis of their past deals reveals huge profits, meagre tax bills and a seemingly casual...
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On the “legitimacy” of the colonization of the Palestinian territories
The commonly propagated support for Israeli settlement of the Palestinian territories is based on a selective use of the history of the region, as well as a problematic interpretation of international...
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Bangladesh, in the ruins of the future
Bangladesh's modern experience of industrial disaster highlights the fragile conditions in which many of its urban workforce toil. But the country has an earlier history of large-scale developmental...
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What Europe? What bottom up? A reply to Etienne Balibar
For its citizens, Europe has become a cold and alienating power, instead of the welcoming space it was meant to be. Where did that political and intellectual left which in the last two decades has been...
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National Roma integration strategies failing Romani children
Newly published reports on Roma integration strategies show little signs of tangible progress in 2012, especially in addressing the rights and well-being of Roma youth. European Union member states...
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