Say what you will about Americans, but they like to put their money where their mouth is. On a wave of unprecedented uncertainty and suspicion around Donald Trump’s incoming administration,…
Click:brick making machineSergei Loiko is an Russian-American journalist who has spent the last year covering the war in Ukraine. He's also a friend, and has now written Airport, a novel…
Donald Trump’s executive order targeting refugees and immigrants may have only been the second most disastrous decision he made this weekend. On Saturday, Trump quietly demoted the Joint Chiefs of…
Demotix/Nils Henrik. All rights reserved.Saddam Hussein created the Fedayeen Saddam in 1994 as a paramilitary Praetorian unit. The Fedayeen were initially charged with protecting the regime from a repeat of…
You know the feeling. You’ve just spent years—maybe even decades—saving every penny possible to pay off your student loans. Finally, the time has come to write that last check. You…
While professional sports leagues and athletes encourage LGBTQ participation through initiatives like the You Can Play Project and Athlete Ally, a study published by The University of British Columbia researchers…
Locals attend murdered indigenous activist Berta Caceres' funeral in La Esperanza, 200 km northwest of Tegucigalpa, on March 5, 2016. Orlando Sierra/Getty Images. All rights reserved.Berta Cáceres could be seen…
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…