TheDailyPakistan.com José ‘Pepe’ Mujica may not be a household name beyond the pampas and ocean shores of Uruguay, but his thoughts on power, politics and sobriety, captured in the remarkable video that follows, surely are of special relevance for politicians and...
Read MoreJohn Keane, ‘It's hard to hide global secrets’, Dagbladet Informatíon (Copenhagen April 6, 2016), on the Panama Papers, and why leaks help keep the spirit of democracy alive Read PDF here...
Read MoreIn Thomas Paine, the radical Enlightenment belief that all social and political ills were remediable found its most passionate champion. Many people today think of the 18th-century Enlightenment as an exciting season of reason, a black-swan moment when new energies flowed,...
Read MorePHOTO: Trump is no fluke, or freak. He's the Republican Party's monstrous creation. (Reuters: Carlos Barria) Donald Trump the demagogue has lit a political fire and measured public reason alone won't put it out. We're about to find out how resilient...
Read MoreThe Flemish historian and writer David Van Reybrouck has recently triggered a minor sensation in the Low Countries by insisting that Western democracies are suffering so much election fatigue (electoral democracy is ‘killing’ democracy, he says) that what is now...
Read MoreWikileaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for more than three years (Reuters) Yesterday, following nearly two years of deliberation, a prominent panel of the world's top legal body at the United Nations confirmed...
Read MoreTaiwan’s President-elect Tsai Ing-wen Hong Kong Free Press Greeted by the fizz of fireworks, flags, honking horns and a jubilant throng of tens of thousands of citizens, president-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took to the stage last Saturday, in front of her national...
Read More.حرب في قلب باريس"، عنوان خرجت به لو فيغارو على قرائها مولولة، مشاهد من ملحمة، جنود تعج بهم الشوارع، سياسيون يخطبون، صفارات إنذار تدوي من بعيد، وأناس مرعوبون دموعهم في مآقيهم." .ما إن أعلن عن حالة الطوارئ حتى اندفعت الأفكار الغريبة...
Read MoreThe Paris carnage makes clear that the so-called ‘war on terror’ doesn’t work Eddie Mulholland “War in the heart of Paris” screams the headline of Le Figaro. Scenes of carnage, troops on the streets, politicians speaking, sirens in the background, terrified people...
Read MoreThe Masses, by Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1935) The widespread belief that religion is plainly bad for democracy is misleading, or so the following dialogue on religion tries to illustrate, with reasons and examples. Conducted in Melbourne by the distinguished...
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