July 9: ATM queue near Greek pro-EU rally with homeless man. Demotix/Chrissa Giannakoudi. All rights reserved.The project of Europe has transformed from one of collective liberation from war, poverty and brutality to one of nauseating inhumanity for the sake of maintaining our comfort and welfare. This is presented to us as an a-political matter: not…
Europe, the very idea is a series on the philosophical notion of Europe and what reflection upon it can lend to the sphere of concrete politics. Czechoslovaks carry their national flag past a burning Soviet tank in Prague, Jan.,1968. Wikicommons/ CIA. Some rights reserved.The 1960s represented a watershed moment in Jan Patočka’s life and work….
Remember Steve Bannon? We can’t blame you if you were trying to forget. The Alt Right loving, former Breitbart News executive with a flair for white nationalist ideas, was an instrumental player in the resurrection and ultimate victory of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. And after the election, he was elevated to one of the most…
Yanis Varoufakis and Euclid Tsakalotos on motorcycle. Demotix/Panayiotis Tzamaros. All rights reserved.Yanis Varoufakis will perhaps be remembered as the James Dean of the European left wing: a man who unwittingly became a politician and briefly lit up the dark skies of European politics. Accordingly, the full extent of this romantic character should be better understood;…
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Whose voices are we hearing? Flickr/Farrukh. Some rights reserved. An academic conference, International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism, was due to start this Friday but the University of Southampton – citing spurious ‘health and safety’ concerns – cancelled it, following intense pressure from the pro-Israel lobby. Despite many academics writing…
There were 3.2 million girls playing high school sports in 2012, which was 10 times more than when anti-discrimination measure, Title IX, was enacted 40 years earlier. The measure, which establishes equal access protections in athletics and academics—along with other key protections—also spurred female participation in collegiate sports to rise 225 percent to 212,000 over the…
Editor’s note: On June 8, 2015, prominent nonviolent resistance leader Iyad Burnat of Palestine received the James Lawson Award for Achievement in the Practice of Nonviolent Conflict. The award, founded in 2011, is given during an annual educational institute on nonviolent conflict, jointly organized by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and the Fletcher…
GOOD has often reported on the harsh working conditions and low wages that many servers are forced to deal with in the United States. Now, a recent news story out of Canada shows that the U.S. isn’t the only place that treats its servers poorly. Recently, a Facebook user shared a disturbing photo on Facebook of her anonymous friend’s…
“Making A Murderer” set the world on fire when it was introduced as a Netflix exclusive 2015. The docu-drama made amateur sleuths of us all, as we dissected (with Netflix’s help) the case of photographer Teresa Halbach, who was said to have been sexually assaulted and murdered by Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. The doubt…