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What’s so feminist about yoga?

LAURA KACERE

Despite the influence of capitalism on its practice, yoga can strengthen resistance and movement-building.

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The media–technology–military industrial complex

JUSTIN SCHLOSBERG

In a world of so-called fake news and post-truth politics, the influence of largely invisible qualities of concentrated power over media, public and policy agendas, warrants renewed and urgent scrutiny.

The battle for minds, and role of human behaviour in generating plutocracies

DENIZ KELLECIOGLU

The control or influence of information is diffused through education, politics, culture, media and the process of socialization.

Who wants any of these trade deals?

MOLLY SCOTT-CATO

What an irony for those who voted to leave the EU because of TTIP, who now find even as TTIP dies that they are fast-tracked into a very similar treaty kindly offered by Trump.

The exiled Syrian actress helping young refugees deal with trauma using theater

JAMEELA FREITAS

Actress Raghad Makhlouf, speaks to Jameela Freitas about how her theatre workshops give young refugees a safe space to express themselves and deal with the stress caused by war and displacement.

ISIS: worst of times, best of times

PAUL ROGERS

The insurgents of ISIS are under pressure in their strongholds. But over the long term they have grounds for confidence.

Sisi’s neoliberal assault: context and prospects

SAMEH NAGUIB

Six years after the January 2011 revolution, the need for a return to its demands and slogans have never seemed more urgent.

The new casualties of Russia’s war on terror

IRINA SLAVINA

The death of a man imprisoned for allegedly encouraging others to fight for Islamic State has cast light on murky killings dismissed as part of the “war on terror.” Русский

The Washington march: historic communion of women

LINDA TUGURIAN

The women’s march brought many first-timers on to the streets. A first-timer tells us why she travelled from North Carolina to Washington DC to take part.

Renewing cooperation on water: what hope for the two state solution?

JAN SELBY

A new agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority gives Israel carte blanche to expand water provision for illegal settlements.

Racist newspapers whipping up fear, fake news slanting elections – had enough? Join openDemocracy and hear from Brian Eno, Caroline Lucas, Peter Oborne, Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Mason & many more on what happens next.

What’s so feminist about yoga?

LAURA KACERE

Despite the influence of capitalism on its practice, yoga can strengthen resistance and movement-building.

See also
To understand women's rights, we must look at gendered laws
openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world

The media–technology–military industrial complex

JUSTIN SCHLOSBERG

In a world of so-called fake news and post-truth politics, the influence of largely invisible qualities of concentrated power over media, public and policy agendas, warrants renewed and urgent scrutiny.

The battle for minds, and role of human behaviour in generating plutocracies

DENIZ KELLECIOGLU

The control or influence of information is diffused through education, politics, culture, media and the process of socialization.

Who wants any of these trade deals?

MOLLY SCOTT-CATO

What an irony for those who voted to leave the EU because of TTIP, who now find even as TTIP dies that they are fast-tracked into a very similar treaty kindly offered by Trump.

The exiled Syrian actress helping young refugees deal with trauma using theater

JAMEELA FREITAS

Actress Raghad Makhlouf, speaks to Jameela Freitas about how her theatre workshops give young refugees a safe space to express themselves and deal with the stress caused by war and displacement.

ISIS: worst of times, best of times

PAUL ROGERS

The insurgents of ISIS are under pressure in their strongholds. But over the long term they have grounds for confidence.

Sisi’s neoliberal assault: context and prospects

SAMEH NAGUIB

Six years after the January 2011 revolution, the need for a return to its demands and slogans have never seemed more urgent.

The new casualties of Russia’s war on terror

IRINA SLAVINA

The death of a man imprisoned for allegedly encouraging others to fight for Islamic State has cast light on murky killings dismissed as part of the “war on terror.” Русский

The Washington march: historic communion of women

LINDA TUGURIAN

The women’s march brought many first-timers on to the streets. A first-timer tells us why she travelled from North Carolina to Washington DC to take part.

Renewing cooperation on water: what hope for the two state solution?

JAN SELBY

A new agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority gives Israel carte blanche to expand water provision for illegal settlements.

Racist newspapers whipping up fear, fake news slanting elections – had enough? Join openDemocracy and hear from Brian Eno, Caroline Lucas, Peter Oborne, Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Mason & many more on what happens next.

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An inside-outside strategy for defending the US Republic

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The victims of Russia’s ultra-conservatism are the Russian people themselves

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The media–technology–military industrial complex

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In a world of so-called fake news and post-truth politics, the influence of largely invisible qualities of concentrated power over media, public and policy agendas, warrants renewed and urgent scrutiny.

The battle for minds, and role of human behaviour in generating plutocracies

Deniz Kellecioglu 27 January 2017

The control or influence of information is diffused through education, politics, culture, media and the process of socialization.

What’s so feminist about yoga?

Laura Kacere 27 January 2017

Despite the influence of capitalism on its practice, yoga can strengthen resistance and movement-building.

Theresa May, the press and a lesson from history

Brian Cathcart 27 January 2017

If Theresa May is brave enough to stand up to the press, she will reap the rewards.

Borders of our mind

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Our leaders and media have proclaimed people on the move as swarms, coaches, criminals and rapists and succeeded in politicising and demonising the age-old human behaviour of migration.

Renewing cooperation on water: what hope for the two state solution?

Jan Selby 26 January 2017

A new agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority gives Israel carte blanche to expand water provision for illegal settlements.

The new casualties of Russia’s war on terror

Irina Slavina 26 January 2017

The death of a man imprisoned for allegedly encouraging others to fight for Islamic State has cast light on murky killings dismissed as part of the “war on terror.” Русский

England has been resenting Europe for a very long time

Jeremy Fox 26 January 2017

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ISIS: worst of times, best of times

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The insurgents of ISIS are under pressure in their strongholds. But over the long term they have grounds for confidence.

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Isidro Baldenegro assassinated in Mexico: another case of lethal collision between environmental activism and organized crime

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The murder of the indigenous leader Isidro Baldenegro López has once again revealed the impunity with which organized crime acts in the face of human rights defenders. Español

On India’s Republic Day, we must remember Kunan Poshpora

Amrit Wilson 26 January 2017

As the Kunan Poshpora mass rape hearings continue, we talk to the co-author of a book which seeks to remember the 1991 events as an act of resistance.

The exiled Syrian actress helping young refugees deal with trauma using theater

Jameela Freitas 26 January 2017

Actress Raghad Makhlouf, speaks to Jameela Freitas about how her theatre workshops give young refugees a safe space to express themselves and deal with the stress caused by war and displacement.

Sisi’s neoliberal assault: context and prospects

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Six years after the January 2011 revolution, the need for a return to its demands and slogans have never seemed more urgent.

Occupy is not the reason why Trump won

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Trump is a symptom of a reactionary response triggered when the problems requiring systemic transformation are blamed solely on the political establishment.

A rights-based approach to technology: gathering admissible evidence and the eyeWitness to Atrocities app

Wendy Suzanne Betts and Nyangala Zolho 25 January 2017

The right to anonymity, whilst always promoted by accountability mechanisms has never allowed witnesses to give evidence without ever having to identify themselves to some sort of authority.

Citizens’ Forum: revisiting citizen participation in Portugal

Lourenço Jardim de Oliveira and Manuel Nunes Ramires Serrano 25 January 2017

Which choices would Portuguese citizens make, if only they had the time, information and ideal conditions to reflect on and debate the most important political questions of our age? Interview. Português Español

The BBC is neither independent or impartial: interview with Tom Mills

Ian Sinclair and Tom Mills 25 January 2017

Is the BBC really impartial? Interview with scholar of the BBC, Tom Mills, on his new book.

Inclusive education exists in Russia, but only in theory

Tatyana Dvornikova 25 January 2017

In Russia, inclusive education needs additional support. Children with special educational needs are often lucky to get any education — or any work afterwards. Русский

Syriza and ANEL: a match made in Greece

Vassilis Petsinis 25 January 2017

Are we seeing the convergence of Syriza and their right-wing coalition partners, ANEL, into a single party?

Facebook’s new role in Europe: protecting Poles from hate speech since 2016

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A couple of years ago any nationalist statement against the “threat of muslimisation” was widely recognized as the very definition of hate speech across all European countries. By 2016, no longer.