Rethinking the ‚War on Terror‘
I know it sounds preposterous: making sense of Paris. Making sense of senseless, mindlessly brutal attacks. Impossible, it seems. But I do believe that the terrible events in the French […]
I know it sounds preposterous: making sense of Paris. Making sense of senseless, mindlessly brutal attacks. Impossible, it seems. But I do believe that the terrible events in the French […]
Challenging class stereotypes In much of the Western world, the welfare state is on the retreat. Traditional social democratic parties are scared to defend strong social security because the public […]
Why Greece’s humiliation diminishes us all. Last Sunday, after first details emerged of the conditions Greece would have to fulfill in order to be granted a new bailout deal by […]
Here we go. The beast that is neoliberalism is lashing out at Greece. The creditors are carrying out the ultimate punishment for the Greek government and the Greek people for […]
After September 11, an unprecedented assault on civil rights in America and its allied states has been justified with “national security concerns”: Torture, detention without trial, warrantless surveillance, wars of […]
It’s the settlements, stupid! Israel has, in the past months, once again shown its disregard for international law with the inacceptable land grab of a 1,000 acres of Palestinian West Bank […]