Reflections on Covid-19
Déjà Vu As Covid-19 sweeps through Ireland, I can’t help experiencing a feeling of déjà…
Browsing: Global
Covid-19: A View from Sweden
Editor’s Note: In avoiding a lockdown, and allowing most schools, restaurants and other businesses to…
China Under Lockdown: Another Cultural Revolution?
Editor’s Note: A long-term Western resident in China responds to conspiracy theories about the country…
Under Lockdown in Piedmont
Imagine a world where people live isolated in underground one-person apartments, talk to each other…
Barcelona Under Lockdown
It all happened too fast, so quickly that we didn’t have time to fully understand.…
What Next for Rojava?
Donald Trump’s abrupt announcement of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria last October brought dire…
Lebanon’s Perfect Storm
On Friday 14th of February Lebanon commemorated the fifteenth anniversary of the brutal assassination of…
Who will take on Trump?
So the Phony War continues in the Democratic Primaries as Bernie takes the New Hampshire…
Camp Moria Lesbos – ‘Hell in Europe’
Having grown up around favelas in the East Side of São Paulo I was expecting…
Democracy in Decay: Steve Bannon & Jordan Peterson
The intellectual decay associated with Jordan Peterson has provided the soil wherein Steve Bannon’s seedlings have germinated.
Predictions 2020: 5G Rollout, Trump Card & Reuters Report
Five predictions for 2020: The Trump Card, an analysis of the Reuters Institute Digital News…
U.K. Election 2019 – Optimism, Despair and the Fingerprints of Steve Bannon
Long Term Patterns: the U.K. Prefers Oxford University-Educated Conservative Prime Ministers. Only Winston Churchill, and…
Special Report: Punitive Policies Inflict Further Exclusion and Trauma on Syrian Refugee Children
The future of a generation born during over eight years of conflict in Syria is…
Bull Moose – In Praise of Uncivil Discourse
When truth is the casualty, everyone suffers. For new Americans, spending Thanksgiving in the U.S.…
To Advance We Must Stop: Two Weeks of Protests in Bogotá
A national strike was called in Colombia for Thursday, the 21st of November. In Bogotá,…
Refugee Education: Can We Regenerate Lost Generations?
The future of a generation born during over eight years of conflict in Syria is…
Bull Moose: ‘We apologize, we love China’ – When Money, China and Values Collide
Two stories were in the headlines this October illustrating how money is undermining our values.…
Ismail’s Story
What is the experience of a refugee caught in the crisis on the Mediterranean Sea?…
Hate Crimes in Spain not as they Seem
Some years ago I read about a small theatre in Moscow staging hard-hitting plays critical…
Bull Moose – Climate Crisis to Opportunity
As Washington swirls with the drama and intricacies of the impeachment enquiry, spare a thought…