Turkey (OpenDemocracy) – We need to go beyond the dichotomy between radical and moderate Islam to see how Islamist movements impose hegemony at local, national and international levels. Islamism is one of the most powerful political drivers not only in the…
Turkey (OpenDemocracy) – “This hatred overdose and systematic lynch campaign is something that none of us were prepared for. We are civilian citizens whose only ‘crime’ is to demand peace.” An open letter. Responding to your kind invitation to a conference,…
Syria (OpenDemocracy) – The international community has failed Syrian families by denying them safe passage, but the U.N. Global Compacts for Refugees and Migrants provide an opportunity to change that. If there is any country where the lack of safe passage…
Russia (OpenDemocracy) – Russian citizens are fed up. Truckers keep on protesting, and allegations of corruption at the highest levels are drawing crowds. The demonstrations of March and April teach us that protest could be the only right we’ve got left.…
Middle East (OpenDemocracy) – Trump’s regional approach to “peace” and stability and the new regional order, aims to ensure the normalcy of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbours, especially the wealthy ones. The US President Donald Trump has no well-defined policy…
Nicaragua (OpenDemocracy) – Again, as in the 1980s, Nicaragua is making a gross political mistake: standing in the middle of the struggles for hegemony of the great industrialized countries of the world. Some countries in the world are extremely impoverished, even…
United States (OpenDemocracy) – In this timely intervention, which is available to watch for free for a limited period, the viewer follows three whistle-blowers in discussion of their roles in, and experiences of, the programme. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or…
Turkey (OpenDemocracy) – As Europe is distancing itself from Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian regime, the UK is getting closer. Is it to sell them even more weapons? It is now ten months since Turkish government declared a state of emergency in response…
Iraq (OpenDemocrcy) – In Baghdad Iraqi Shi’a political parties and elites are returning to patterns of infighting habituated by decades of coalition- and relation-building in both the pre- and post-Saddam Iraq. With the liberation of Mosul a certainty, if not an…
Latin America (OpenDemocracy) – We are living in a period of cultural revolution agitated by the omnipresence of ICTs, where social practices run into systems of government designed and created in the 19th century. A few months ago, the Argentine President…
Bahrain (OpenDemocracy) – The outright militarization of the security apparatus has infected more and more sectors of Bahraini society. In fact, it’s now been written into the country’s constitution itself. Six years ago, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof described his…
Europe (OpenDemocracy) – Could this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing neoliberal political systems? Every time I speak at public meetings in Britain about the gender equality and direct…
United Kingdom (OpenDemocracy) – EXCLUSIVE: The world’s biggest security company, landlord to asylum-seekers, threatens tenants with expulsion from the UK. About 900 people who are seeking asylum live in the city of Sheffield, in South Yorkshire. For five years G4S, the…
Venezuela (OpenDemocracy) – Turmoil can still be avoided. There is still a small window of opportunity to resolve the Venezuelan crisis by political, negotiated means. Time is key. Without a doubt, today Venezuela is facing the most painful and far-reaching crisis…
United Kingdom (OpenDemocracy) – A wave of direct action across the UK aims to end extreme energy extraction. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is an extreme form of dirty energy extraction in a world dominated by dirty energy extraction. The earth’s resources…