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The long road to retaliation: delayed airstrikes in Syria will exacerbate the...
Rapid, punitive airstrikes two and a half weeks ago, while certainly displacing some Syrians, would have been less likely to lead to larger numbers of refugees.As many columnists and news pieces noted...
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More competition medicine - now it's your GP's turn
GPs are the most cost-effective part of England's NHS - so why is the government so keen to make radical changes to address the lack of 'competition'?Image: Vaguely Artistic / Flickr. Some rights...
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Germany's election campaign: Terminally, terminally boring
The German election campaign lacks vision and fresh ideas. This is no accident. It’s the tactical brilliance of Angela Merkel.Flickr/Abode of Chaos. Some rights reserved.There is a Chinese proverb:...
View ArticleAmerican Cold War foreign policy and the Egyptian military
US support for the Egyptian military is inhibiting the development of an Egyptian national, progressive bourgeoisie able to form the backbone of a genuinely democratic system.The logic of American...
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Der Himmel über Europa - weekly comments roundup
A look at this week's best reader comments on our Can Europe make it? debate. Would the two angels who watched over Berlin in 1987 recognise the country today? "Germany has crumbled into as many small...
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After Egypt and Syria, there's never a worse time to host an arms fair
The world's largest arms fair is happening in London - with a little help from the government. After events in Syria and Egypt, its timing couldn't be worse.Campaign Against Arms Trade banner at DSEI -...
View ArticleSyria: the case for intervention
The political balance in the west is moving against military involvement in Syria. Such a choice will ensure the prolongation of war, chaos, extremism, and humanitarian disaster. Only intervention will...
View ArticleWhat to do in Syria?
The war in Syria is illegal. If a criminal had poisoned someone, our concern would be how to protect the public from future poisonings and how to arrest the criminal and bring him (or her) before a...
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Britain’s chemical responsibility
To truly understand the need for Britain to make peaceful inroads with Syria, we must look back to the tragedies handed down to us by our predecessors.Flickr/UK Ministry of Defence. Some rights...
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Response to Curzon Price on a British devaluation
Devaluation alone is not the solution to the UK's economic woes. But it is the necessary foundation needed for other policies to work.Flickr/Ihongchou. Some rights reserved.I am really grateful to Tony...
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Empathy, democracy and the economy
Democracy is lost unless we re-structure our economies, and re-structuring our economies requires a new system based on different values. This is the sixth article in our series on empathy and...
View ArticleModi, empire and the bandwagon of human rights
If an arrest warrant against Modi is suggested on the grounds of ‘universal jurisdiction’, will the author extend the same argument for a similar intervention on the part of the Indian judiciary, say,...
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Nothing will ever be the same again…
The recent hotly-contested Moscow mayoral election ended, as predicted, with victory for government candidate Sergey Sobyanin. But Aleksey Navalny did much better than expected, as did opposition...
View ArticleThe Hill to the rescue on Syria?
Will members of the Senate and the House grasp the opportunity to undertake an urgently needed reassessment of America’s War for the Greater Middle East? Sometimes history happens at the moment when no...
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Empathy: lots of lessons but no final words
What can we learn from two weeks of debate? Empathy must be used to correct injustice, not simply to understand it or feel its associated pain. This is the final article in our series on empathy and...
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R2P and Syria: imperialism with a human face
Opposing military intervention in Syria is not support for the brutal Assad regime. The BRICS countries can rely on strong legal and political reasons against such intervention; the Responsibility to...
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Don't trust Lib Dem leaders on Secret Courts
A former lawyer and party candidate, who resigned from the Liberal Democrats over "secret courts", interrogates the leadership's latest reassurance.Almost a year ago in Brighton at Lib Dem Federal...
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The implications of the Syria Vote: how Britain goes to war (or not)
The Commons' refusal to go to war is a landmark in British constitutional history. What is it that stands out in UK parliament that is giving our MPs an increaing authority over Britain? Flickr/UK...
View ArticleThis week's window on the Middle East - September 11, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Syria: waiting for the TomahawkSyria: waiting for the...
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UK police and (anti) fascist protests - a bad joke
With 286 anti-fascists arrested this weekend - one of the biggest mass arrests of protestors in recent history - one of them asks questions of British policing: what is their aim: are they controlling...
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