- — After Sturgeon, Humza Yousaf: what next for Scotland?
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at 3/28/23 9:21amIn the second of two podcasts this month, Glasgow-based journalist Jamie Maxwell discusses Scotland's change of leader after Nicola Sturgeon's surprise decision to stand down after eight years as Scotland's first minister. As Humza Yousaf takes on her role, Jamie discusses the Sturgeon legacy and the challenges ahead for her successor, both in terms of the independence movement and progressive politics in (...) - 2023/03 / 2023/03 Scotland, Podcast- — Kurdish autonomous regions
- at 3/28/23 5:04am- Middle East / Map, 2023/04 Kurds
- — Białowieża: a migrant hunting ground
- at 3/28/23 5:03am- Europe / Map, 2023/04 Poland
- — Atlantropa: one man's answer to the ‘decline of the Occident'
- at 3/28/23 5:03amA century ago, a German architect came up with a scheme to solve all of Europe's problems – to drain the Mediterranean. His contemporaries took his idea entirely seriously. - 2023/04 / article
- — Twilight years of Spain's monarchy
- at 3/28/23 5:03amThe Spanish monarchy's relationship with democracy has always been problematic: Juan Carlos was fascist dictator Franco's designated successor. Barely a third of Spaniards want to retain the monarchy. - 2023/04 / article
- — Some protests are more legitimate than others
- at 3/28/23 5:02amA comparison of Venezuela and Peru, and their recent histories of civil strife, reveals that not all demonstrators are equal in the eyes of the media or the international community. - 2023/04 / article
- — The Yukpa's long struggle
- at 3/28/23 5:02amWhy the attack on Esneda Saavedra Restrepo, governor of an Andean indigenous people in Colombia, went unnoticed. - 2023/04 / article
- — Tanzania forces the Maasai from their land to make way for trophy hunters and tourists
- at 3/28/23 5:02amThe Maasai have suffered over a century of forced evictions from their ancestral lands in Tanzania in the name of both game hunting and conservation. Has recognition that global biodiversity goals depend on indigenous peoples come too late? - 2023/04 / article
- — Poland pursues double standards on migration
- at 3/28/23 5:02amPoland grants Ukrainian refugees protected status. Those fleeing other countries and attempting to cross the Białowieża forest straddling Belarus and Poland get a much more hostile reception. - 2023/04 / 2023/04 Poland, article
- — Clock ticking for TikTok
- at 3/28/23 5:02amIn the early 2000s the West bridled when China banned Google, Facebook and Twitter on its territory. Now the US wants to ban TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, which also operates a similar social media platform in China called Douyin. - 2023/04 / article, 2023/04 china
- — China's race to become global AI superpower
- at 3/28/23 5:02amChina wants to be world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by the end of the decade. But US trade sanctions affecting technology imports and a brain drain of the best engineers mean it won't be easy. - 2023/04 / article, 2023/04 china
- — Kurdish discontents are growing
- at 3/28/23 5:02amThe Kurds won international support for fighting against Saddam Hussein and then ISIS. But turning autonomy into independence remains out of reach, as external threats and internal divisions multiply. - 2023/04 / article, 2023/04 Kurds
- — China casts itself as Middle East peacemaker
- at 3/28/23 5:02amThe recent Chinese-brokered agreement between arch-rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia suggests that the US no longer has a monopoly on influence in the Middle East. Can the deal work? - 2023/04 / article
- — Down among the strikers in western France
- at 3/28/23 5:02amMost French people side with the strikers in opposing the government's pension reform. But it's not easy for the unions to translate that support into strike action. - 2023/04 / article
- — ‘No scruples, no regrets'?
- at 3/28/23 5:02amPresident Macron's unpopular pension reform, forced through in a most undemocratic way, will only fuel support for the far right and further weaken voters' faith in politics. - 2023/04 / editorial
- — Netanyahu's assault on Israeli democracy
- at 3/26/23 4:00pmBinyamin Netanyahu's new coalition is curbing the independence of the judiciary, undermining secular education, and further eroding Palestinians' rights, provoking a new round of violence. - 2023/02 / article
- — Iraq invasion, twenty years on
- at 3/24/23 5:47amOn 20 March 2003, a coalition led by the United States (US) launched a ground invasion of Iraq under the false pretext that the country had weapons of mass destruction. Ironically, as Ignacio Ramonet noted at the time, ‘the dossier against Saddam Hussein that President George Bush presented to the UN General Assembly on 12 September 2002 was called A Decade of Lies and Deceit'. The media backed Bush up. ‘Never,' wrote Edward W Said, ‘has there been such unashamed and scandalous complicity (...) - Ebooks / ebook, Dossier
- — Jacinda Ardern calls it a day
- at 3/23/23 2:42amIn the first of two podcasts this month on the resignations of two prominent female leaders, journalist Glen Johnson reflects on New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern's surprise departure. She won international admiration for her handling of Covid and the Christchurch massacre but, Johnson explains, elements in the business community, the political opposition and the national media cultivated a highly toxic environment that ultimately made her position (...) - 2023/02 / Podcast, 2023/02 Ardern
- — Ukraine: the dangerous war the left won't talk about
- at 3/13/23 5:00pmLast month, President Biden warned the world faced ‘the prospect of Armageddon' if Russia used tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Yet the world's interest in the war seems to have waned, especially on the left. - 2022/11 / article
- — Scotland's ‘every last drop'
- at 3/13/23 5:00pmCambo is the huge oil field that was discovered off Shetland in 2002. Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon told a sparsely attended parliamentary session in November 2021, ‘I don't think that [it] should get the green light' . Before this announcement, Shell thought its operating licence from the regulatory body, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), was imminent. Drilling was due to start this year and phase 1 would have generated 170 million barrels of oil, causing climate damage equivalent (...) - 2022/10 / box, 2022/10 Scotland
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