The green pavilion, Euronews HQ, Lyon, 2015. Wikicommons/Lydie22.Some rights reserved.At the height of the euro crisis, media coverage didn’t exactly help to find solutions: it aggravated conflicts within the Eurozone instead. The then Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme cites the headlines in the German press in 2010 “where the Greek population on average were described…

Contrary to the current president’s strategy, former president Barack Obama firmly spoke out against racism on Saturday, just hours after neo-Nazis resorted to violence at a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion,” Obama wrote, quoting former South…

Hussein Malla/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Jabhat al-Nusra’s split from al-Qaeda offers the west a unique and crucial opportunity to create a fully inclusive and strengthened transition in Syria while dividing al-Nusra’s supporters. Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State are the only opposition groups banned from the Syrian peace talks and excluded from the government/rebel…

Whether or not you’re attuned to the ongoing dramas of the Kardashian krew, you’ve likely heard by now that Rob Kardashian (brother to Kim; sock entrepreneur) spent much of his Wednesday posting a series of nude photos, presumably sent to him privately, by his ex-fiancée and mother of his child, Blac Chyna (formerly Angela Renee…

Havana 2016. Flickr/Ken Walton. Some rights reserved.Olga, a former University teacher, remembered her faithful devotion to Fidel Castro when she was growing up in Santiago more than forty years ago. ‘Before the triumph of the Revolution I went to a Baptist private school. After I went to a state school, and I grew disenchanted with…

Is there anything more nerve wracking then watching a skateboarder attempt some gravity-defying maneuver? You’re on edge just thinking about that landing. Well, a group of women turned from anxious spectators to personal coaches as they cheered on and high-fived a total stranger as he tried a series of skateboarding tricks.  They even lent some moral support…

Berta Cáceres and local assembly community members campaigning against the Agua Zarca dam. Photo: courtesy of the Goldman Prize. Berta Cáceres was killed while sleeping in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras on 3rd March 2016. Over the past few years, she had been harassed, and received multiple death threats for her role in the…

In April, my 10th-grade son did something I never managed to do in any class ever: He finished his entire world history textbook. All 1,258 pages of it. Some parents might breathe a sigh of relief over this accomplishment (as in, whew, my kid is not a slacker), but I was skeptical. “Did you actually…

Between two identitarian politics? 'Uncle Sam' poses with cardboard cut-outs of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, November 2016.Jane Barlow/Press Association. All rights reserved. In a recent essay for AlterNet, Bill Fletcher defends the general concept of identity politics in the following terms: "What passes for identity politics should actually be understood as social justice struggles…

Free spirit! Wikicommons/Pranjal Kumar. Some rights reserved.“Freedom is that possession which permits the enjoyment of all other possessions”, wrote Montesquieu. Yet, today we are led to believe that the only way to enjoy personal safety within society, and guarantee our individual and collective freedoms, is through preventive security and reinforced controls. How have we arrived…