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Published in: ourEconomyTreating the morbidity of the multilateral system: toward a global Green New Deal
Tinkering cannot provide a way out of the current interregnum. We need to rewrite the rules of the global economy to promote stability, prosperity and sustainability.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDear Liberal Democrats - you are so much better than this
Saying 'Bollocks to Brexit' won't make the problem go away - it just further debases the debate.
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Published in: oDRFighting to be seen: how Ukrainian and Russian professional women are securing their place in public
In Ukraine and Russia, civil society and professional associations are helping women experts to raise their profile in the public arena.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Wounded beast: the French government’s fake news
Paris, May 1, 2019. Impunity, kettling, racism and gas: a view of the policing from the ground up.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: real weapons of mass distraction
Matteo Salvini’s rhetoric is getting ever more worrying as we approach the EU elections.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPoliticisation of sports and sportisation of politics: A global dangerous trend
The globalising way of promoting sports as a way of thinking and a way of life really just serves the dominant capitalist system. We interview Ivan Ergic, an international Serbian ex-football player for a critical view of the sports industry.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#metoo in the East? Women's rights in south-Eastern and Eastern Europe
Just over a month ago on April 10, Marija Lukić, pioneer of the #metoo movement in Serbia, went on her second trial against Milutin Jeličić Jutka, former president of a small local municipality of Brus in the centre of the country.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Restive immobility – Melville’s tale of Europe
Seen from the commander’s deck in Brussels, calm is not a bad option after all. Cooptation in power is working smoothly for governments run by extreme right and populist forces, from Italy to Austria.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Sociology and philosophy under threat in Brazil – a petition
The recent measures against sociology and philosophy in public universities that have been announced by the minister of education, and supported by the president, clarify the connection between cultural and ideological attacks from the new regime.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Saviours of the nation? – on the breakthrough of the radical populist right in Spain
Attacking the symptom (i.e., the populist radical right) is not going to do the trick – not in Spain, not in the rest of (western) Europe.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can British democracy handle the European elections? – public debate, civility and extremism
This current political crisis is not just about how the Brexit stand-off is resolved. The challenge is to show that Britain can handle a democratic election in polarised times.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaLa ola conservadora y reaccionaria global: incesantes fábricas del odio, del miedo y la mentira
Existen dos guerras no declaradas contra la gran mayoría de la población mundial, las clases populares miserabilizadas y las clases medias empobrecidas. Esta doble guerra exige un vastísimo complejo ideológico-mental propagado por todo el mundo. Português. English.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe relentless factories of hatred, fear and lies: on the global ultraconservative and reactionary waves
There are two undeclared wars on the vast majority of the world's population, the destitute popular classes and the impoverished middle classes. Such double war requires a vast, ideological-mental industrial complex sprawled across the planet. Portugues. Español.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta“All as One – 1 out of 5 million”: Serbian protesters mobilise against growing authoritarian rule
Serbia heads to its sixth month of anti-government demonstrations against President Aleksandar Vučić, whom the critics are accusing of leading the country in an increasingly authoritarian and non-democratic way.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaOnda conservadora e reacionária: as incessantes fábricas do ódio, do medo e da mentira
Existem duas guerras não declaradas contra a grande maioria de população mundial, as classes populares miserabilizadas e as classes médias empobrecidas, uma dupla guerra que exige um vastíssimo complexo industrial ideológico-mental espalhado pelo mundo. Español. English.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How the 5-Star Movement is losing support over broken green promises
More than 50 pages were dedicated to the environment in the M5S electoral programme, fruit of an online consultation with the movement's members. But in the "government contract" sealed with Salvini, it was down to three pages.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta¿Quién le teme a Julian Assange y a WikiLeaks?
Confundir a la persona, - "Assange" - con el impacto de Wikileaks, oculta el alarmante efecto que su extradición podría tener tanto sobre la libertad de prensa, como sobre las libertades civiles. English.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Are clownish outsiders the future of democracy?
Comedic buffoonery no longer marks the dividing line between satire and news. It is now the starting point for participatory democracy.
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Published in: HomeSenior Tory revealed as Huawei cheerleader in Brussels
As leaks scandal rocks Theresa May’s government, emails show high-ranking Conservative urged colleagues to back the controversial Chinese telecoms firm.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Christian, secular, cultural: Europe’s cathedrals as enduring sacred spaces
Cathedrals are sacred Christian spaces and secular sights of interest, sometimes simultaneously. In historic moments of cultural importance the religious and the secular intertwine in the public sphere. This ‘civil religion’ remains powerful.