Rioting, bombing and headline-grabbing murder attempts are all part of the dissident’s arsenal. The murder of Lyra McKee, shot because she was standing beside a police vehicle doing her job as a journalist, highlights their activity in Northern Ireland. In...
Benin, a country known to be an example of democracy in West Africa, voted on April 28 to elect its representatives. The election was marked by a massive abstention and total ban on the use of the Internet. The opposition...
The United States and its relationship with Latin America is best described as dysfunctional, at best. Imperialistic at worst. At the onset of the Cold War Harry Truman enacted the Truman Doctrine. Its sole purpose was to combat Russian communist...
Ultra-conservative upstarts Vox gained 24 seats in the Spanish parliament in a general election held on April 28. Despite it being the third general election in just four years, turnout was high and the centre left Socialists Workers Party, the...
These are difficult times for the European Union project. The United Kingdom has already voted to leave the collective, while across partner nations there are clear signs the far-right are on the rise, growing stronger and bolder. At the start...
On May 9 the whole world burst into laughter and vented its schadenfreude as Russia, economically crippled by Western sanctions, staged its annual Victory Day Parade on Red Square. No one can understand why the Kremlin continues to brandish its...
We hear about the rise of “neo-Nazism” in Western countries since the populist uprising began as a reaction to the migrant crisis in 2015, but these movements have existed since the end of Nazism in 1945. So what are they...
One cold night last month in a run down district of Kyiv, far from the glitz of the city centre, a group of anarchists were plotting to drop a political banner over a road bridge. I was stood waiting below....
When in November 2016 Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America, there was celebration on the floor of the Russian State Duma. To Russians, Trump’s victory came unexpected, as it did to most people, including Trump...
In the year 70 CE, with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman Empire, the limited autonomy of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel came to an end. At that time, the Jews of the...