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Born Illegal - The US Federal Analogue Act "Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." ~ Paracelsus By all accounts Anthony Reed was what you would have called a model citizen. In a very traditional sense, he was a hardworking... Read more » Double trouble again In June I wrote a short piece about the difficulty I was under trying to understand why the equation GDP = C + I + G + (X-M) is a simple accounting identity, a self-evident truth rather than an assumption made by economists. Were it wrong, we’d... Read more » ‘New’ direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations: doomed In January 2010, I began researching for a PhD at the LSE. I wanted to pursue these studies partly in order to better understand the society that I was born into, Palestinian society, and why we still don't have our own state and freedom... Read more » Maldives struggling with infant democracy The Maldives are situated in a strategic location in the Indian Ocean. Traditionally, all great powers that aspired to control the Indian Ocean have sought a base there – Portugal, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, and the... Read more » The EU’s human rights policy in Russia: more than rhetoric? In part one of this review, I will explore these issues by examining the degree of coherence and consistency in the EU’s policy on human rights in Russia since Putin’s election in 2000, as well the influence of other economic and political... Read more » A Big Society needs republican values ‘Bureaucracy is something we all love to hate. It presents simultaneously the contradictory images of bungling inefficiency and threatening power. Incompetence, red tape and feather-bedding on the one side; manipulation, obstructionism and... Read more » More Recent Articles Introducing Inter Alia The success of Islamophobia Language: groundswell forces a retreat by Chinese authorities