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America's black-ops blackout
The Pentagon has divided the whole globe like a giant pie into six slices through U.S. Special Operations Command. And in the post-9/11 era, this secretive military's reach and ambition has only grown....
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Machismo on the move
The shifting experience of masculinity is connected to the rise of populist politics in Finland. The rise of populist movements in several European countries is a phenomenon of interest to researchers...
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The many languages native to Britain
There are around seventeen languages native to the UK. Some are on the verge of extinction. Much more should be done to save them - starting, in some cases, with the basic step of recognising that they...
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The constructive radical's guide to organisational change
Often, activists who are used to and ideologically committed to more horizontal forms of organising find themselves working for NGOs or charities with hierarchical structures. This guide provides some...
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No shortage of international complicity with Israeli occupation
Aid to Palestine is essentially palliative, intended to maintain a status quo. From that vantage point, aid seems to be remarkably complicit with continued Israeli occupation. How can funders and...
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My friend's hunger strike against force-feeding at Guantanamo
“There are places on this earth where color has absconded.” One man’s protest against force-feeding at the Guantanamo detention camp.Andrés Thomas Conteris. Credit: Taylor C. Hall. All rights...
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Europe is diverging: ignore it at your peril
In the absence of a strong and concerted political direction, the EU is undergoing a process of structural divergence, featuring diverging employment, growth, productivity, competition, and fiscal...
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Has Jack Monroe handed Sainsbury's an absolute bargain?
Food blogger and campaigner Jack Monroe has done a deal with Sainsbury's. It's good that she's donating the proceeds to good causes. But she is still helping advertise a company which is a cause of the...
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The Department of Work and Pensions and Atos Healthcare: still failing UK’s...
Disabled people are forced to live on the breadline for months as Atos failed to give them an appointment. Sick people are told they can work months before dying. People are driven to suicide. The...
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The Battle of Algiers: a formative influence on Moroccan cinema
Laying bare the social and economic structures of oppression to reconstruct a national psyche from the ruins – how an idea caught on. Martin Evans:What impact did the Battle of Algiers have upon...
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Why the monster Grendel has no place in activism today
I was at the anti-fracking protest at Balcombe in the UK when another activist said austerity is "a beast bigger than all of us". Then I started to see monsters everywhere. The Beowulf complex -...
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The Dutch media monopoly kills journalism in the Netherlands: internet...
Politics has marginalized the people with the crucial support of the media.wikimedia commons. Some rights reserved.We all grew up with the standard formula: journalism plays a crucial role in making...
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Papua’s response to the gift of Special Autonomy plus
Many Papuans are concerned about what the impact will be of the current president’s so-called “gift” to the province, ‘special autonomy plus’ or 'Otsus plus'.Indonesia’s easternmost province Papua has...
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How poverty impedes the cognitive function
What must be understood is that mental bandwidth is a limited resource which is used for everything. So what happens if we can make some things, like banking, easier for the poor ?Okonkwo, the...
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Lukashenka as Machiavelli
For those who assume that the Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenka long ago lost his freedom of action vis-a-vis Moscow, his recent bout of assertive behaviour was unexpected. It delivered the...
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What can the case for Scottish Independence learn from the Irish example?
The nationalist movement developed in the two countries at about the same time, in the late nineteenth century, gathering momentum in a campaign for Home Rule in the years leading up to World War I,...
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Russia’s shiny new weapons
‘Drones are not toys,’ says Vladimir Putin, and ‘we are not going to operate them as other countries do. It is not a video game.’ Maybe so, but military men the world over love their hardware… ‘Drones...
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Winning the class war: a ruling class perspective
Liam Barrington-Bush reads Susan George’s new book, ‘How to Win the Class War: The Lugano Report II,’ and, while impressed by its breadth of information, is left wondering if more intellectual...
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El Sisi: the revolutionary president?
If Sisi decides to run for president, it might provide a breath of life to a revolutionary movement that has been badly damaged and splintered since the coup of June 30.Over the weekend there were some...
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2014, a climate emergency
The accelerating pace of extreme weather events is an acute challenge to political leaders.Two months ago, on 8 November 2013, a devastating typhoon struck south-central islands in the Philippines....
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