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Back to homepageThe Right to the City Movement and the Turkish Summer 0
Post Views: 11 [A protestor and police in Gezi Park. 31 May 2013. From Yücel Tunca via Nar Photos.] As I write this, Istanbul is under siege. The might of Istanbul’s entire police force—the largest city police force in Europe—is
Read MoreLebanon: Police Torturing Vulnerable People 0
Post Views: 8 Need Effective Redress, Oversight, Complaints Mechanism (Beirut) – Lebanese Internal Security Forces threaten, ill-treat, and torture drug users, sex workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in their custody, Human Rights Watch said in a
Read MoreThe Tal Kalakh Peace Deal 0
Post Views: 6 Local Ceasefires in Syria Damascus. Once a rebel stronghold, the town of Tal Kalakh on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon changed sides at the week-end and is now controlled by the Syrian army. The
Read MoreObama’s Love Affair With Fracking 0
Post Views: 17 A Transitional Fuel Folly Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced his administration’s “Climate Action Plan” for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at Georgetown University and unfortunately, it’s a full-throttle endorsement of every aspect of fracking and
Read MoreGulf monarchies fuel Syrian storm 0
Post Views: 5 The Barack Obama administration’s decision to directly supply weapons to the Syrian opposition may end up torpedoing the possibility of a political settlement. It will almost certainly accelerate the chaos spreading from the almost three-year old civil
Read MoreOur man in Quito 0
Post Views: 4 THE ROVING EYE HONG KONG – So it’s going to be Our Man in Quito. The narrative may not be as elegant as Graham Greene’s, but the plot certainly beats the Bourne trilogy – because it’s happening
Read MoreMapas chinos en África 0
Post Views: 3 La reciente celebración, en la ciudad sudafricana de Durban, de la quinta cumbre del grupo de países denominados BRICS ha inaugurado un nuevo escenario donde sus miembros han anunciado con claridad su intención de trabajar por un
Read MoreEl significado y las perspectivas de las movilizaciones callejeras en Brasil 0
Post Views: 4 Entrevista con João Pedro Stedile, líder del MST Brasildefato: ¿Como usted analiza las recientes manifestaciones sacudieron a Brasil en las últimas semanas? ¿Cuál es la base económica para que ellas acontezcan? Joao Pedro Stedile: Hay muchas evaluaciones
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