Category: Global

When it comes to the profession of liberal values in Hollywood, Israel is still the exception. Pharrell Williams and Gerard Butler support the Israeli army-- and dis Trump and Saudi Arabia. Producer Jason Blum appears at a Sheldon Adelson-sponsored event, but …

“This is not a speech of concession, because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper,” said Abrams, bringing her campaign against Brian Kemp to a close. “As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede …

Acknowledgment of three options for Britain may appear victorious for remainers but having a "Remain" option is destined to fail everyone - except the far right.

This text explores the problem of  emergence of authoritarianism within groups on the radical left. It is based on the reflections of participants from the Occupy ICE activist camp that was established outside the immigration centre in Portland, USA. Comparing …

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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis is facing a no-confidence vote after a scandal broke following accusations by his son who said his father had him kidnapped in order to keep him from testifying against him. His son, who is also named Andrej, claims …

Representatives of private banks and investors regularly come knocking on football clubs' doors like traveling salesmen, because even some of the largest European teams frequently find themselves short on cash. By DER SPIEGEL Staff

In 2011, a Russian billionaire set out to rescue the ailing AS Monaco football club. He invested in top players and invited government, police and justice officials to matches. He handed out both gifts and jobs. Last week, however, Dmitry …

Some 874 days after the Brexit referendum, Theresa May has reached a deal with the European Union to prevent a hard exit from the bloc. But events of recent days make clear that months of drama in Brussels pales in …

In principle, the nation-state is an institutional means precisely to democratize the international system.

Academics and activists say anti-Semitism conference at University of Vienna is promoting speakers who are "an embarrassing mistake, or as an attempt to promote the broadest possible academic discussion, but the co-sponsorship of the event by the Israeli Embassy, and …

By far the most interesting development related to the Name Dispute between Greece and Macedonia/FYROM this week was the departure in stealth mode of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski from Skopje and his sudden request for political asylum in Hungary. …

In the discussion after the presentation at the Anarchist Communist Group hosted Land and Liberty meeting at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June 2018, a question was raised by one of the attendees about the expropriation of land. …

Sumaya A. In a speech at the final session of the Marxism Conference in New York City last weekend, Sumaya A. documented the violence and oppression of the Trump era — and put forward a vision of liberation and solidarity …

At the conclusion of a year-long collaboration between the Hive, theSkimm, and SurveyMonkey, we look at how female millennials voted in the midterms—and what their ascendent political power presages for 2020.

Following the news that former Chief Strategist to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is to speak at the Oxford Union on Friday 16th November, students are mobilising to oppose the meeting with the white supremacist celebrity. Despite of evidence that …

The pilot of an Air Astana plane from Kazakhstan requested from the Lisbon Airport permission to make an emergency landing amid stormy weather conditions on November 11. The aircraft was heading to the former Soviet republic of Belarus when it was …

Danny Katch and Sarah Knopp With the first members of the Central American migrant caravan reaching the border at Tijuana, Danny Katch and Sarah Knopp look at some of the ways people in the U.S. are already showing solidarity — …