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Tehran is repeating the Shah's mistakes
The Iranian province of Khuzestan is oil-rich but water-poor. At the best of times, the southwestern region is a problem…
Spain's anarchists are rioting
Michael Bakunin, the 19th century revolutionary Russian anarchist, identified Spain as the place where his creed was most likely to…
Germany’s far-right and the rise of the anti-corona protests
Germany has been in uproar over the events that unfolded this Saturday, when 38,000 protesters gathered in Berlin and clashed…
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
How a serious issue with racism was reduced to a tick-boxing exercise
Who needs statue topplers when the state will do it for you? Some bright spark in authority has decided the…
Letters: the history of centrist parties does not bode well for the ‘breakaway seven’
The breakaway seven Sir: ‘In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other, but the…
The students tearing down Cecil Rhodes’s statue are still upholding his legacy
Protesting students in Cape Town may disdain the statue of Cecil Rhodes, yet they do not reject his legacy
The Zimmerman jury should have done its duty and ignored the evidence
I wonder what possessed the jury in the Trayvon Martin case to return two not guilty verdicts when they knew…