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We all belong to Glasgow - Refugees Are Welcome Here
On Monday people will gather at the UK Border Agency's Glasgow offices to protest against an ugly government advertising campaign. (See also, Welcome to Britain: 'Go Home or Face Arrest')The Liberal...
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The Saddamisation of Bashar al-Assad: how Britain may just have escaped...
The Commons chose to stand back from the cusp of military intervention in Syria. Is this a knock for British national pride or a chance to learn from our imperial past?Statue of Saddam Hussein....
View ArticleVideo - what is Britain's new gagging bill?
A 5 minute video setting out why the government's proposed gagging law has caused such outrage - charities and campaigners will be largely gagged yet big money lobbyists won't. Is the government simply...
View ArticleEditorial Internship - ODRussia
Paid, flexible part-time position is now open at oDRussia / Russia and Beyond. Closing date September 15openDemocracy Russia is an online journal and think tank, publishing articles daily on a wide...
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Canvassing for the vegetable vote
While Muscovites decide whether Aleksei Navalny or Sergei Sobyanin will be their next mayor, Russian voters will mostly be denied a real choice in Sunday’s local elections. A rigged system means ruling...
View ArticleThe IPCC and new climate paths
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a unique public service that produces valuable scientific reports. But is yet another 1,000-page document what is needed now, asks Øyvind...
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Prejudice - always a vote winner
Moscow’s mayoral elections have seen a sharp rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric —language common in Europe, but previously confined to Russia’s far right. Madeleine Reeves has been following the campaign....
View ArticleDomestic violence: on the frontline of intersectionality
Provisions for those affected by domestic violence are in decline in the UK, but work in the area of domestic violence continues to be integral to the development of approaches to intersectional...
View ArticleIs Britain really so against chemical weapons?
Does the West have any moral right to interfere with the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons when they facilitated the manufacture of them?Nobody knows for certain what might result from bombing...
View ArticleInterview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen on the Norwegian election
Our Editor-in-Chief chats with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about Monday's election in Norway. Why has the seemingly very successful goverment lost support, has the Breivik terror changed anything and what's...
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Vladimir & Barrack do the shake
Inspired by the attention given to Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin's shaking of hands on American news networks our Sunday Comics author digs into the cultural archaeology of the handshakeThe...
View ArticleLebanon’s sectarian nightmare
With the spectre of a three or four way sectarian conflict (the Druze would most likely join in) looming large, the Foreign Minister and his government are quite clearly in a panic mode. Visiting...
View ArticleThe dangers of military intervention in Syria without UNSC authorization
The only way to start a war against another country without UNSC authorization is in self-defense. The President needs to make the case that the Syrian government is an imminent threat to United...
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Will governments ever obey their own law?
As governments are so infrequently held accountable for their actions, is there any reason why they wouldn't try and circumvent the very laws they hold in place? Flickr/riacale. Some rights...
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Muriel Lester and the stench of injustice
Asserting the dignity of all people is a central moving force in the history of social change. This is the fifth article in our series on empathy and transformation.Organizing in Long Beach,...
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R2P down but not out of Libya and Syria
The world’s failure to respond effectively to ongoing atrocities in Syria may mean R2P is down, but it’s not out. Even in Syria R2P offers a principled approach to a chemical weapons atrocity in the...
View ArticleThe future of Scottish immigration
The depiction of Scotland as being welcoming to newcomers is an important aspect of Scottish national identity, but what are the prospects for immigration reform in the case of Scottish independence?...
View ArticleJean Bethke Elshtain: the moral and the political
Reflecting on the life and work of the political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain, who died last month, Kathleen B Jones writes of a friendship and thirty-year collegial exchange of ideas on subjects...
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Syria: a moral intervention
Who will be there to teach us about morality, and to speak of yet another moral intervention when pictures of brutality show up on our screens, this time committed by the coalition of the “morally...
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Syria: waiting for the Tomahawk
As the world holds its collective breath in anticipation of western military intervention, the children of Zamalka have already lost everything and the prospect of an international response means...
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