[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="383"] PHOTO: Do cities hold the key to our democratic future? (By Florence Roca)[/caption] Senator Scott Ludlam has city life and urban thinking hard-wired into his political genes, and believes that cities are becoming political laboratories. John Keane...
Read More[caption id="attachment_10147" align="alignright" width="300"] PHOTO: Do cities hold the key to our democratic future? (By Florence Roca)[/caption] Senator Scott Ludlam has city life and urban thinking hard-wired into his political genes, and believes that cities are becoming political laboratories. John Keane...
Read MoreThe most telling tale in Charles Moore’s winsome biography of Margaret Thatcher spotlights the moment of her greatest political triumph: the military defeat of Argentina in mid-June 1982, after a 74-day war that cost nearly a thousand lives on windswept...
Read More[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkd6_duJHoc[/youtube] In our age of monitory democracy, as Rupert Murdoch is once again learning to his cost, rascals and rogues are finding it hard to conceal from public attention their private wheeler-dealing. The latest ‘we will hit back’ revelations published by the...
Read More[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="668"] The army massacre of June 4, 1989, in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square should be remembered everywhere. EPA/Michael Reynolds[/caption] It's 24 years since the Tiananmen Square uprising. In an interview with John Keane, democracy activist Chin Jin...
Read More[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="742"] A sign in New York in 1913 (click to enlarge). Flickr Commons/The Library of Congress. Public domain.[/caption] The following reflection on the subject of banks and democracy has been prepared for a forthcoming OECD meeting in Paris,...
Read MoreABC 24 talks to Professor John Keane about Julian Assange's bid for Senate. Professor Keane spent a day with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 3 April 2013. Original Link here -> Lunch and dinner with Julian Assange, in prison...
Read MoreEverybody warned this would be no ordinary invitation, and they were right. Three hundred metres from Knightsbridge underground station, just a stone’s throw from fashion-conscious Harrods, I suddenly encounter a wall of police. I try to remember my instructions. Look...
Read MoreDuring mid-January 2013, John Keane delivered a number of talks and lectures and gave interviews in Castellón and Valencia, Spain. The subjects ranged from mega-projects and power, the political dangers of silence, public disaffection with official politics and the future...
Read MoreBliss was it in that spring to be alive, and to be young, on the streets, was very heaven. Or so it seemed to millions of women and men in early 2011, shortly after the first protests in Tunisia rocked...
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