Gordon Campbell on the censorship wreaking havoc within South Africa’s state broadcaster
Decrees include no further negative news about the President and an end to camera angles that made him ‘look shorter’.
World
Zimbabwe: From The Trenches
The ongoing struggle against the Mugabe dictatorship
Theresa May, Compassionately….
Why Britain’s new Tory PM is talking about inequality
Sabotaging Democracy
Voter turnout is being actively suppressed in this year’s US elections
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s weird pilgrimage to Europe
The current Key/McClay expedition to the UK and Europe looks decidedly peculiar.
Gordon Campbell on Britain’s pleas for mercy
On Brexit, the Europeans clearly want Britain to get on with it, but no British politician seems willing to step up
Gordon Campbell on the aftermath of Brexit
Now that it has woken up from its Brexit victory hangover, is Britain acting as if it has just won the World Cup? Hardly.
Greens + Labour, Aussie Version
…And Other Notes On The Looming Aussie Election
Gordon Campbell on the delusions driving the “Leave” option
On the brink of the Brexit vote, the irrationality of the “Leave” option is now apparent.
Gordon Campbell on the “T” word, and this Sunday’s election in Spain
Once again, news packages from the US and UK underlined the difference in the treatment of the Pulse night club killings and the murder of Jo Cox.
Gordon Campbell on the RCEP trade deal and other entanglements
So China and the US both have competing trade deals on offer – the TPP for the US and the RCEP for the Chinese – each of which pointedly exclude the other superpower.
From Taboo To Empowerment
Menstruation is a pivotal issue in gender equality and human rights
Apocalypticism
The changes in the global climate are as extreme as the US presidential season
No Climate For Change
The Paris conference will deliver only paper promises on global warming
America, The Gated
Immigration has become a polarising issue in the 2016 US election campaign
In A New York Groove
NYC rekindles its love affair with its outlaw past
Syria Eats Itself
Countering the logic of the war economy in Syria
Coney Island, Baby
Under the pier, down by the sea…
Pitch Perfect
How Pope Francis is selling the world on the Catholic Church
At The Crossroads
The Democratic Party (once again) tries to engage with the realities of ordinary Americans
Migrant smugglers: monsters or saviours?
We can’t help the plight of refugees by concentrating solely only on the people-smugglers
Food democracy, South and North
The evolution of the politics of food
Churchill’s Betrayal of Greece
When Churchill sided with Hitler, against the partisans
Art on the New York Subways
Catching trains to a different sort of glory
Shaming The United Nations
The UN continues to dodge responsibility for bringing a killer disease to Haiti
Chokehold
Life and death in the US urban free-fire zone against young black males
Fighting Against Fanaticism
The struggle of Kurdish women against Islamic State
Mid-Pacific Man
A Kiwi journalist reflects on his migratory path to the US of A
Scotland The Maybe Not-So-Brave
Is the vote for independence destined to be yet another noble-but-doomed episode in Scottish history?
Scotland’s Vote : The View from Wales
Freedom for Scotland would be ‘a beacon for social justice’ throughout the UK