Refugees in the centre of Athens
Refugees in Omonia Square. Chris Jones & Sofiane Ait Chalalet. All Rights Reserved.Bilal is in his mid thirties. He is a refugee from a village close to Hebron in the…
Iran’s nuclear deal reconsidered
1953, when Eisenhower and Nixon supported Iran's first nuclear reactor. Wikicommons/Abbie Rowe. Some rights reserved.US President Eisenhower was carried away by the prospect of the widespread international use of peaceful…
West Africans Attribute Soccer Success To Controversial Methods Of Performance Enhancement
The International Olympic Committee has expanded the power of World Anti-Doping Agency, making it a central authority in the “fight against cheating.” WADA defines doping as the use of prohibited substances and…
Times of war in Russian arts and culture
The Russian state has tightened its grip on contemporary arts and culture in recent years – most notably via the June 2013 law that criminalises acts which ‘offend’ Orthodox believers.…
Lady Liberty Coin Will Feature The Face Of A Black Woman For First Time
Oh boy. What are racists going to do with their future money? First, there was the historically awesome news that Harriett Tubman would be replacing Andrew Jackson on the face…
Coming Home: How Soccer Without Borders Is Building A Bridge To The Next Generation
It’s a sunny winter morning when I meet with Ben Gucciardi outside the Soccer Without Borders office at Oakland International High School, in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. The school is decorated with colorful…
Misunderstanding IS, again
Blood-red: the material network that is IS is not best understood by parsing its religious discourse. Flickr / Karl-Ludwig Poggemann. Some rights reserved.The first time as tragedy, the second time…
Why has cocaine production increased since the peace agreement in Colombia?
Photo by Aitor Sáez. All rights reserved. This article was originally published for ¡PACIFISTA! Colombia’s Tumaco region has the country’s highest number of coca plantations: 16,920 hectares according to official figures.…
Uncomfortable assumptions about security: the UK vote on support for Saudi Arabia
Air strike in Sana'a, Yemen. Ibrahem Qasim/Flickr This article was first published in November 2016.On Saturday 8th October, more than 140 people were killed and over 500 injured when warplanes…
New NASA Satellite Releases Stunning Images Of Earth
No matter how many photographs of Earth you’ve seen, you’ve literally never seen ones like this. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new GOES-16 satellite has just realized…
Digital citizenship: from liberal privilege to democratic emancipation
Thomas Paine statue, Thetford, Norfolk. Wikicommons/Andrewself. Some rights reserved.‘Government founded… on a system of universal peace, on the indefeasible hereditary Rights of Man … interests not particular individuals but…
Donald Trump’s L.L. Bean Tweet Is Setting Off A Storm Of Controversy
President-elect Donald Trump is right where he wants to be: at the center of our thoughts. In this edition of “What Did He Just Do?” we find ourselves taken aback…