Emboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, Turkish President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents. On 1 June, Orhan Inandi, a Turkish-Kyrgyz national was declared missing in the...
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G7 Tax Deal: If You Think Multinationals Will Be Forced To Pay...
Finance ministers in London from the G7 group of wealthy nations have agreed on a deal that has been described invariably as a landmark that will transform the landscape of global corporate tax...
Nagorno-Karabakh: In The Aftermath Of War, Armenia Faces An...
More than six months have passed since the “second Karabakh war”, as it is now called, came to an abrupt end last year with Armenia all but defeated. The ceasefire hastily signed on November 9 –...
How Right-Wing Populists Use Food To Legitimise Their Extreme...
Getting breakfast done’: Italian strawberries, Hungarian pickles and a pint of English beer are all part of the Right-wing populists’ food fight for voters Few everyday items have the ability...
Somalia: Toxic Elite Politics And The Need For Cautious External...
The current government’s decision on April 12th to seek a two-year extension has thrown Somalia’s fragile political process into disarray. The president has since called for elections and a return to...
‘Almost Divine Power’: The Lawyers Who Sign Off Who Lives And...
When we think of war, we might think of soldiers on the front line – or those pulling the trigger – as the ones responsible for the death or injuries of those they are targeting. But...
Canada’s Hypocrisy: Recognizing Genocide Except Its Own Against...
The Canadian Parliament is sometimes at the cutting edge of genocide recognition and human rights. It has labelled China’s treatment of the Uyghur’s as genocide but what about...
G7 Deal: UK Is Badly Conflicted Between Offshore Tax Havens And...
For four decades, there has been a global race to the bottom on multinational tax, with Britain and its network of tax havens at the heart of it. Multinationals have seen tax as a cost rather than...
After 12 Years of Netanyahu, Here’s What To Expect From A New...
Israeli politics are entering a new chapter. After inconclusive elections in March, a politically diverse coalition has formed to end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years as prime minister. The eight-party...
Has COVID Brought About A Far-Right Dystopia?
If at the turn of the 21st century, the world already seemed decidedly ‘flatter’ and more compressed, after a year of closed borders, silent airports, ‘stay at home’ injunctions, and all sorts of...
Aung San Suu Kyi Overlooked Myanmar’s Deepest Problems
The Myanmar coup is a sad and onerous turn of events for a country with a long and unhappy experience of military rule. It is important to note that this is not an institutional crisis. What we are...
What Happens When Governments Deny Racism Exists?
Britain, apparently, does not have a problem with racism. The millions of Britons who experience racial slurs; discrimination at school; unequal access to jobs, housing and public services; and who...
Roe v Wade: The Supreme Court Judgment That Underpins Abortion...
Reproductive rights advocates in the US are expressing dismay at the announcement by the supreme court that it will hear argument in an appeal that, if successful, could threaten the legal basis on...
The War That Israel Lost
At the tactical level, Israeli armed forces have superior weapons, but at the strategic level, Israel is losing international legitimacy Back in 2000, the right-wing Israeli politician Ariel...
US Retreat From Afghanistan Escalates Neighbours’ Scramble To...
President Biden’s decision to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September is seen as final unless there is a sustained Taliban campaign to force the US military into a rapid and...
Smuggling Syndicates Are Plundering Resource-Rich Zimbabwe
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) renew their distress calls as Zimbabwe’s political and military elites gang up with international smuggling syndicates to plunder the southern African state’s vast...
The Rise Of Brazil’s Neo-Pentecostal Narco-Militia
In Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, drug trafficking factions, paramilitaries and neo-pentecostal churches have united to fight a ‘holy war’ against their rivals Israeli flags fly from the highest...
What’s Next For Cuba And The United States After Raul Castro’s...
Cuba’s Castro dynasty has officially ended. On April 16, 2021, Raul Castro – younger brother of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro – relinquished his position as first secretary of the Communist...
The UK Is Losing The Fight On Money Laundering But We Can Still...
Britain’s white-collar professionals would wince at the thought that they are enablers of global corruption. New research suggests that corruption in the UK is not only structural but cultural, too...
Rethinking Politics, Populism and Platforms
How can we create a progressive ‘popular force’ in an era of digital media platforms dominated by the innovations of right-wing populism? Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a powerful 18th-century polemicist and...