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LGBT people in Russia face a daily battle with homophobia and discrimination, and the decision to ban tomorrow's Gay Pride is but a symbol of that. Yet a new generation of activists give many reasons to be optimistic, writes Augusto...More Recent Articles
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Iran: an elite at war, Nasrin Alavi...
A bitter dispute among Iran’s political leaders involves issues of theology, economic policy, foreign affairs, and even accusations of occultism. But at its heart is the regime’s fear of the people, says Nasrin Alavi.
America's National Public Radio turns 40: BBC take note, David Elstein
National Public Radio in the US celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. The bottom-up approach of the NPR is democratic, cost effective, and encourages variety. BBC radio has much to learn
Some kind of revolution, Ryan Gallagher
In Puerta del Sol, the camp’s peaceful and serious ethos seems to have won the demonstrators the respect of many older members of the Madrid community. Can it have lasting impact across the country?
Russia’s queer democratisation, Augusto Come
Should the left go Blue? Making sense of Maurice Glasman, Alan Finlayson
As the figurehead of 'Blue Labour', Maurice Glasman is being hailed as an intellectual guru for the Labour Party. In this Friday Essay, Alan Finlayson engages with Glasman's vision of the common good
Skinback Fusiliers, Episode Ten, Unknown Soldier
We present the final episode from a brutal novel about life as a British squaddie, by an acclaimed British author
Sycophantic Kingdom: Cameron and company creep to Obama, Peter Oborne
The UK's premier breaks his word and apes Tony Blair as he subordinates British foreign policy to the US while imitating its trappings of power and hypocritical rhetoric abandoning self-belief and independence for a place in...
Bosnia: what course after the storm?, Wolfgang Petritsch and Christophe Solioz
Between the advocates of interventionism, who think that only action from the international community can prevent Bosnia’s implosion, and those who, on the contrary, deem Bosnians to be the only ones who should be responsible for their...
Ratko Mladić's arrest: a start, but let it not obscure how much more is needed for justice, Sadzida Tulic and Heather McRobie
Poisonous ethno-nationalist political rhetoric, genocide denial and the celebration of war-time leaders are still routinely permitted in the discourse of Bosnian politicians, the media and citizens – if ‘citizens’ is the right word to...
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