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Everything
Our Sunday Comics author stumbles upon a single childhood curseword as he gives us his version of everythingA monk toiled away for decades in isolation in an ice-bound Himalayan monastery, shivering...
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Berlusconi: has the Artful Dodger met his match?
Unlike Oliver Twist's friend, Berlusconi will not end up in a penal colony, or indeed in a prison cell, but will continue to be an uncomfortable presence in Italian political life. For how...
View ArticleJordan’s crossroads in the Arab Spring
Twin disaffection on the part of both Syrians and Palestinians in Jordan, further fuelled by the spillover effects of the Arab Spring should be put in historical context. Both Palestinians and Syrians...
View ArticleThe road to federal consociationalism
Many Israeli Jewish intellectuals, activists and politicians over the years have spoken out clearly for a one-state solution. They were very aware of the consequences of war and conflict, and arrived...
View ArticleTurkey’s Gezi Park episode is far from over
Paradoxically, Gezi Park presented Erdoğan with a golden opportunity, one that could also have helped Turkish democracy part company from the tendency of powerful political parties to drift into...
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The dangers of stone throwing
Israel has charged five Palestinian teenagers for having allegedly thrown stones at a settler’s car. They face 25 years to life imprisonment for attempted murder. Yet again, the system punishes the...
View ArticleThe banality of legal
The outcome of the Trayvon Martin case holds critical implications. We are not responsible for George Zimmerman pulling the trigger, because the law treats this as an action subject to legal judgement....
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Academies of hatred
A series of public events in Wrocław, Poland’s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals. Those responsible are not only supported by the main right-wing opposition party....
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Labour's nuclear disarmament opportunity in blast from the past
The latest indecision on the renewal of Trident places a further rift in the Coalition's relationship and poses an opportunity for Labour to form a nuclear disarmament plan. Could this cause a shift in...
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Migrant-bashing as a PR stunt
The UKBA "racist vans" have caused a great deal of unrest through their racially profiled spot checks. What were the real causes and aims of this grubby campaign?Flickr/ Some rights reserved.I would...
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A tale of ideologies: Scottish nationalism and unionism
Scottish nationalism and unionism stand in complete opposition, but are there greater similarities between their ideologies than the UK cares to admit?Flickr/The Laird of Oldham. Some rights...
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Protest politics and the ethical imagination
Protest, like marriage, means re-imagining relations to self and other. The Taksim Square Book Club - in which demonstrators in Istanbul stood silently and read books - used reflection as a riposte to...
View ArticleLooking beyond the US-Russia stalemate
The cancellation of Obama's September meeting with Putin has led some observers to predict doom for the arms control agenda. But beyond this bilateral sticking point, inter-state agendas are on the...
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Constitutional Reform – the creeping transformation of Italy
In the summer lethargy, the Italian government is attempting to pass new constitutional amendments that would take power away from Parliament and concentrate it in the executive branch's hands. Public...
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Peace, not diplomacy in the South Caucasus
If the primary concern is to establish peace in the region, then the central question is the social status of the people rather than internationally established political norms, such as territorial...
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Making human rights matter to the marginalised
Human rights organizations must adopt a new approach to produce positive change for - and stay relevant to - those who need advocacy the most. A way forward to make human rights a truly grassroots...
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Human rights from the bottom up: beyond the ideological export model
How do we understand the transformation of the global human rights movement in a multipolar world? "Endtimes" as Stephen Hopgood argues? On the contrary: the demise of human rights will only come when...
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The Snowden Fallout
In America, candidacy is reserved only for those who can afford it, betraying the essential democratic concept of choice. How has Edward Snowden's choice to sacrifice himself for his fellow citizens...
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Revisiting drug policy with toilet paper
Drug prohibition is not only costly, but violence inducing and ineffective. Is it not time to look to scrap the present system before any more people are hurt and money is wasted?Flickr/epSos.de. Some...
View ArticleThe unsafe house of Italy: violence against women does not break for summer
Italy has just passed a new law offering better protection for victims of domestic violence. But will this be enough to work against the damaging effect of under-funded safe houses and public figures...
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