Activists promise largest climate civil disobedience ever at Paris summit
System change not climate change! And what better way to accomplish this by doing some good old civil disobedience. By…
Shell abandons Arctic drilling
This week Shell announced plans to abandon its Arctic oil drilling operations. This is huge. via Greenpeace From activists who…
Interview with Coral Herrera: “We Are More Alive Than Ever:”
Women’s struggles include men. Women struggles include food sovereignty. Women struggles can succeed. via Global Voices by Laura Vidal This…
Ten years on: Katrina, militarisation and climate change
Hurricane Katrina was a watershed moment as it exposed how democratic states are moving towards treating social and environmental crises…
Srebrenica revisited
In July 1995, the international community stood aside as the Bosnian Serb army massacred 8,000 Bosniaks in the enclave of…
Our responsibility to vote ‘NO’ in the Greek referendum
A yes vote would entail a major setback for popular struggles; a NO vote, by contrast, would open up radical…
Vijf jaar voorgelogen over Griekenland
Ewald Engelen over hoe politiek en media een vals beeld schetsen van de Griekse crisis en waarom door Ewald Engelen…
Belgian privacy watchdog sues Facebook
Too little. Too late? For more on Facebook privacy read ‘From social media service to advertising network. A critical analysis…
G7: Currencies to Protect, Countries to Bomb
by: Vijay Prashad via CounterPunch The members of the G7 just ended their 41st summit. The leaders of Canada, France,…
Bridget Anderson on Europe’s ‘violent humanitarianism’ in the Mediterranean
Interview with Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration at the University of Oxford. Borders are ‘a dystopian project whose enforcement exposes…