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America: the panoptic shiver, Paul Rogers Among the most compelling nuggets of information contained in the batch of United States diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks and published in leading international newspapers is the list of installations in more than fifty countries which... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Where have all the adults gone? , Bronwyn Hayward As I stand outside the gates of parliament in central London at lunchtime on 9 December 2010, wearing a work suit and holding a briefcase, I am struck by my age. I am one of only a few citizens over 30 (let alone any older) waiting for the... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Hada, Liu Xiaobo, and China’s fear, Natalia Lisenkova and Kerry Brown The award of the Nobel peace prize to Liu Xiaobo reflects the determination of at least part of the international community to maintain a focus on human rights in China and those who seek to uphold them. By the same token, the immense energy... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Many problems, but one purpose: human rights in Russia, Anna Sevortian When I sat down with my colleagues to produce our annual Human Rights Watch Report on Russia, we had a remarkable conversation. How — and with what index — could we report on the persecution of Russian human rights activists, given that this... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Belarusians: in need of a nation, Natalia Leshchenko The presidential election on 19 December 2010 means that the light of international attention is again being cast on Belarus. Much current discussion of Belarus focuses on the contest between the “Soviet” understanding of the nation... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Street politics, violence, and media, Martin Shaw “The relationship to violence is also much better, as shown by the spontaneous revulsion of the demonstrators against throwing the fire extinguisher at Millbank. There is an understanding of the need for no willed violence against people.... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Iran: the double-edged world, Nasrin Alavi The killing of the young Iranian woman Neda Agha Soltan in June 2009, captured on a mobile-phone and transmitted around cyberspace, became the human face of the Iranian’s opposition sacrifice after the stolen presidential election of that... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Ken Worpole A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, by Owen Hatherley, Verso, £18, September 2010. The ‘new ruins’ – poorly designed and shoddy shopping malls and mass-produced housing – are ubiquitous throughout our cities. Ken Worpole finds... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • The state of things: a London protest, Delwar Hussain Along with the many in Britain who disagree with the cuts to education funding and increase in tuition-fees that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government is forcing through, I decided to join the thousands of students whomarched through... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles #demo2010, a new generation seized Britain's Parliament Square and it won't be defined by Rock Toffs swinging from the Cenotaph, Anthony Barnett “We weren’t born asylum seekers”, Debora Singer Burma implicated in nuclear weapons construction, Oliver Scanlan The Russian protest movement: why my optimism was misplaced , Oleg Kashin The morning after the fight before: What next for Gen' 2010?, Nick Pearce Optimism of the will: defending human rights in Russia, Simon Cosgrove Baby Boom to Moral Bust: How Britain's youth will suffer most from the cuts, Edward Denison Britain, greet the age of privatised Higher Education, Alan Finlayson WikiLeaks and democracy, Patrice de Beer Not quite a ray of sunshine: interview with Belarusian writer Uladzimier Arlou , Ingo Petz
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