Plastic is an extraordinarily versatile material. It is cheap, durable, low-weight and versatile, and our building and construction industry, industrial ...
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Western involvement in Africa extends from massive corporate investment in mineral extraction and technology, to direct government aid and a ...
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In recent years, the British state has spied on law-abiding environmental activists, democratically elected politicians, victims of torture and police ...
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Across the west, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile ...
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Detention and confinement, both of combatants and large groups of civilians, have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course ...
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Japan has the third largest economy in the world by GDP and is a military power of great significance. It ...
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The provision of social housing in the UK has declined dramatically in the last twenty years. This is part of ...
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The four major global accountancy firms – Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG have developed into vast multinationals, showing ...
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The growing lack of job security, including intermittent employment or underemployment, which has arisen from the global spread of neoliberal ...
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Our global food system has serious inherent problems. Our production, distribution and consumption patterns are responsible for a third of ...
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North Korea is portrayed in the media as a dangerous and irrational military power that represents the greatest current threat ...
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In a country ravaged by a war that has still not drawn to a close, the erosion of women’s rights ...
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Kim Sharif is a London based solicitor, human rights activist and Director of ‘Human Rights for Yemen’. She has given ...
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Algorithms are computerised formulae designed to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations. They can perform calculations, data processing ...
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As the prison population in the UK, which is now the highest in Western Europe, continues to escalate, we must ...
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When President Trump took office in January 2017, he received more than just the keys to the White House. President ...
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Germany is now the undisputed power centre of Europe. Its journey from defeat and denial at the end of the ...
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Rather than the “clash of civilizations” forecasted by Samuel Huntington in the 1990s, the world has been descending into what ...
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There was a time when Australia led the way on refugee protection. Following World War II, Australia came second only ...
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Professor Colin Leys is emeritus professor of political science at Queens University Canada and honorary professor at Goldsmiths, University of ...
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Conditions in Libya constitute a humanitarian crisis. The civilian population struggles to gain access to basic services such as healthcare, ...
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The phenomenon that we have come to call ‘gentrification’ is transforming our cities in a rapidly urbanising world. The refurbishment ...
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The brief era of global dominance by a small group of countries in the West is coming to an end ...
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Developments in Artificial Intelligence and the use of Autonomous Systems ( robots) have reached a stage where they will have ...
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Cuba has survived more than 40 years of US sanctions and the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the succession ...
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Warming of the climate system, due largely to the burning of fossil fuels and land use change, is now considered ...
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The crisis in the relationship between western secularism and Islam has been fuelled by Islamic fundamentalism and the rise of ...
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Many of the world’s worst environmental and human rights abuses are driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption ...
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A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. Overall, ...
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The tragic civil war in Syria between the Alawite-led government of President Bashir Assad, and the numerous disunited rebel brigades ...
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Having come to power in 2015, Poland's ruling Law and Justice party stands accused of attempting to reverse the country's ...
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The City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the ...
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South Africa has the second largest economy in Africa and has experienced a prolonged period of economic growth. However the ...
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Around the world women are more likely than men to live in poverty. Patriarchal power relations and subordinating systems of ...
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Although holy men in India claim otherwise on their own behalf, every person on the planet has to divest themselves ...
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Professor Callum Roberts - 25 April, 2016 - 18:45 Oceans form the earth’s largest life support system. They produce 50% ...
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In December last year Venezuela’s political right wing gained a majority in the National Assembly, defeating the country’s socialist PSUV ...
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Julian Oram is Land Campaign leader at Global Witness.  Many of the world’s worst environmental and human rights abuses are driven ...
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Large charitable organisations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are currently rivalling governments as the providers of social ...
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High profit exploitation of people is increasing rapidly with globalisation of markets and millions of people are being subjected to ...
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In size the fifth largest country in the world and with an economy that is the seventh largest by GDP, ...
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This year 350,000 migrants have already arrived in Europe by sea, over 2,600 have drowned in the Mediterranean, and the ...
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The Arab uprisings that erupted in 2010-2011 have typically been presented through the narrow lens of dictatorship versus democracy. In ...
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The impacts of climate change place future human prosperity and wellbeing at risk. Despite much progress in the development of ...
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Humanitarian Intervention is seldom out of the news, and questions surrounding the morality, legality and effectiveness of intervention abound. What ...
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 (ICC) which was set up by the United Nations under the Rome Statute began functioning in 2002 and issued its ...
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The coming to power of Syriza in the recent elections in Greece marks what is potentially a watershed in the ...
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The Ebola epidemic has gripped the attention of the international community for months now, raising an inordinate amount of fear ...
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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have a profound impact on the global economy, affecting millions of lives ...
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The new government in Iran, the war in Syria and the impact of Isis in both Syria and Iraq have ...
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Saudi Arabia is a theocratic monarchy in which Sunni Islam is the state religion. It is an autocratic state with ...
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Online social networking and mobile computing are now central to politics, and to calls for the reform of existing social structures.  As ...
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At a time of increasing tension with the west over Ukraine, the Caucasus and the Middle East, Russia is often ...
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is long and bloody and all attempts to sort it out have failed so far.   Dr ...
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The recent elections in India delivered an overwhelming victory for  Narendra Modi and the BJP, a political party linked to ...
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The  New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is a private sector investment platform for multinationals eager to expand into ...
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Frank Ledwidge is a barrister, author and former military officer who has served in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. He argues that ...
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The widespread military attack by the forces of ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and its allies, aimed ...
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Recent events in Ukraine have given rise to international concern, and relations between Russia and the West have seriously deteriorated.  Marko ...
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Around the world, there is a crisis of displacement. Authoritarian regimes, political persecution, generalised violence, environmental change, and food insecurity ...
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