An earlier version of this article was presented to the Technology and Democracy project at CRASSH, Cambridge University, 29 September 2015. A footnoted copy is available at www.informationobservatory.info Visit of…
Kamoshita and Aihara at their talk in London on 1 February jointly organised by Voices for Creative Non-Violence UK (VCNV), Nipponzan Myohoji and SOAS Save Jeju Island and SOAS CND…
Albert Gonzalez Farran/Demotix. All rights reserved.The US Special Envoy, Donald Booth, will be given a warm welcome when he visits Sudan at the end of July. Khartoum’s hard-line Islamist regime…
Excerpted from ‘ISIL, JAN, and the war economy in Syria,’ by Rim Turkmani, (LSE, 2015), which is based on original empirical research drawing on interviews with a range of respondents…
Shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, assistant library director Rebecca McCorkindale created a sign to let immigrants and longtime residents alike…
A recent outbreak of fighting has once again brought world attention to bear on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an unresolved territorial dispute involving Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south Caucasus.…
Before leaving office in January, President Obama formally commuted most of Chelsea (neé Bradley) Manning’s 35-year-sentence for leaking classified information and documents to Wikileaks. The commutation was a divisive one,…
Shutterstock/Xtock. All rights reserved.There are signs of previously unknown levels of cooperation and alignment between the United States and the key Sunni states in the region, which could lead to…
To eat or not to eat before a workout? That question has confounded athletes ever since leggings gained acceptance as pants. Sure, you know not to eat a burrito before…
Shutterstock/ patrice6000. All rights reserved.Deluged in data for more than a decade, our reflex has been to articulate our fears and anxieties in the language of privacy. But it may…