Click:tin box manufacturer Protest poster at PEGIA demonstration( Patriotic Euopeans againt Islamisization of the West). Jens Meyer /Press Association. All rights reserved.Like the Eurozone crisis before it, Europe’s refugee crisis has forced the EU into a state of permanent emergency. Refugee flows into Europe continue to dominate the headlines, punctuated by regular emergency summits and…
Month: March 2019
"A Gramscian party in a non-Gramscian world." An interview with Paul Mason
Alex Sakalis (AS): At what moment did you and Theopi Skarlatos decide to make this documentary? Paul Mason (PM): Well on January 25, when Tsipras was speaking in Propylaea, we had just finished making a 15-minute short documentary about the election and we just looked at each other and said ‘this is going to be amazing’…
Mobilising for peace and freedom: from aspiration to lasting change
In 2014, Cynthia Cockburn wrote the first article in the 12-month lead up to the 100th anniversary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She reprised the formation of the organisation reminding us of our history in April 1915: “More than a thousand women assembled to talk peace. They travelled there from…
Why It Matters That “Hidden Figures” Outearned “La La Land”
Click:bronze valve Over Super Bowl weekend, Hidden Figures edged ahead of La La Land in the cumulative revenue race. (As of publication, the film has earned $119.4 million in North America, while La La Land’s tally stands at $118.3 million.) La La Land is widely considered to be the front-runner for best picture at this year’s awards…
Here’s How Much Coffee You Should Drink If You Want To Be Healthy
So you’re a coffee addict. Welcome to the club. According to a 2015 Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans drink at least one cup of coffee a day, with 11 percent of those polled admitting to drinking four or more cups a day. Despite the contradictory flood of information concerning coffee—it’s the devil’s drink one moment…
"Economic peace" for Palestine?
David Silverman / Getty Images. All rights reserved. One of the most persistent and constant themes in both the Israeli and the international approach to the Palestinian issue has been the notion that the road to peace has a strong economic dimension. According to this thinking, if the Palestinian economy and institutions of governance are…
Air war vs Islamic State: myth and reality
During the last decade's Iraq war, the Pentagon practised “embedding” media personnel with United States armed forces in order to give the American public something approaching a frontline picture of their efforts. The great majority of the journalists involved came to identify with the troops they were living with, and in the main the Pentagon’s…
Apple Shareholders Rejected Proposal To Improve Company’s Diversity Issue
Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world and beloved by millions and millions of adoring fans who will wait hours in line to be the first to purchase one of their new iPhones or other devices. But like much of the tech industry, they also have an increasingly obvious problem with…
The chilling effect on India’s academic freedom
Kanhaiya Kumar, March 16, 2016. Wikicommons/ Hemanth5432. Some rights reserved.Since 2014, Indian universities have been subject to the authoritarian impulse of the state, with the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Narendra Modi seeking to fundamentally transform the character of these universities, imposing unqualified administrators that are close to the party line, implicitly…
How Samantha Bee Show’s ‘Nazi Hair’ Joke Backfired In The Best Way Possible
Samantha Bee is one of our strongest comedic voices, and her show Full Frontal often reminds viewers of the best days of The Daily Show with a powerful, feminist kick. But there’s no denying one recent joke on the show went from political kick to foot in the mouth after one of Bee’s correspondents accidentally mocked a…