Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
Aug 16, 2021 · The set of conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are nebulous and hard to pin down, but piecing them together gives us something like this: the Great Reset is the global elite’s plan to ...
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Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
Feb 4, 2020 · 4. The U.S., Soviet Union, and China have more in common than you think. As capitalism emerged from feudalism in Europe in the 19th century, it advocated liberty, equality, fraternity, and ...
Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
3. In an electoral democracy, protest provides an essential voice for minority groups. The classic theorists of representational government recognised that universal suffrage and majority voting ...
Energy price cap: MPs claim £420,000 to heat their homes
Apr 5, 2022 · British MPs have charged taxpayers £420,000 for energy bills in their second homes over the last three years, openDemocracy can reveal. The government has refused to step in to curb record high ...
The Russian Mafia and organised crime: how can this global force …
We hear a lot about Russian organised crime and its links with the Russian state. But it operates not just at home: its reach is global. Euan Grant explains how it operates and what can be done to ...
Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
Aug 27, 2019 · Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond. A key under-studied area for analysis is how contemporary extreme right movements can also be seen as totalitarian. Indeed, it is not difficult ...
War: justifiable or simply catastrophic? | openDemocracy
Al Qaeda is a loose network confined to no particular country. Yemen is the latest focus of anxiety and attention. The Afghan war has created greater and more widespread hostility to the US and ...
'White slavery': the origins of the anti-trafficking movement
Nov 16, 2017 · History shows us otherwise. The foundation of modern anti-trafficking legislation in England was created during the years of 1885 and 1912 through a series of legal interventions in both the ...
What is morally wrong with discrimination? A Kantian analysis
Jul 29, 2020 · Discrimination is always morally wrong from a Kantian standpoint because it means that I allow myself to count more than the other does: the same rules do not apply to us equally. But morality ...