$ 0 0 Crimea – from playground to battleground Crimea: from playground to battleground In the wake of political transition in Kyiv, journalistic speculation about Crimea becoming independent is rife. However, the real dangers lie elsewhere... A pro-Russian rally for the Defence of Sevastopol on 24 February. Demotix/James Southers. All rights reserved. Top image credit URL: http://www.demotix.com/news/4013054/rally-third-defense-sevastopol#media-4012886 OD Show on Front Page: Show on Front Page Landscape Indebted citizenship - an interview with Rosi BraidottiWhat is the fifth estate?For the first time since 1848, a renewed Europe from the bottom up is possible, with the new social coalitions of the Fifth Estate - a new kind of proletariat, without any consciousness of class. It is the only way out of exclusion. A dispatch from the occupied Teatro Valle in Rome.Acts, affects, callsWhat art accomplishes in performing politics is to govern bodies through affects. Building broader coalitions and involving more people will require calling them forth not merely with arguments but also through affects.The BRICS of collapse? Why emerging economies need a different development modelShadow banking, or why black holes are important in the global financial system Shadow banking Can Turkey handle free and fair elections?The AKP government has been fervently pushing through legislation with the air of a heavily wounded giant whose actions are not the result of intelligent calculation or rationality so much as an instinct for survival. Why?Yemen, and the Tunisian example A political agreement in Yemen is under strain. But its very existence confirms the Arab revolutions' key breakthrough.The undeluded going astray in BosniaThe process of integration into the European Union, which has been stagnant for a decade now, has exposed the sad reality of a total lack of political will on the part of Europe. Let’s be more specific.Buy low, sell low: the secret to a healthier economyTo raise the quality of life, we must lower the cost of living for one another, and that’s what ‘buy low, sell low’ economics has to offer. This is the fourth article in our series on the role of money in the transformation of society.Nobody wants Russia’s TurksRussia’s Meskhetian Turks, exiled from their homeland seventy years ago, have to put up with ignorance, prejudice, discrimination and violence on a regular basis. A travelling exhibition, now in the US, shows pictures of their suffering – past and present.The Scots referendum debate could do without the vitriol