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Who Drives the Story: The Panama Papers and Narrative Control
The Panama Papers may prove to be the single most important leak in a new era of data-driven activism. Delivered by an unnamed source to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, and investigated with (…) -
2 June 2016, by
The Legacy of LuxLeaks: Whistleblowers, Privacy and European Law
Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employee, attracted international attention on illegal tax agreements between Luxembourg authorities and multinational corporations by (…) -
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The Violence of Intolerance: Bangladeshi LGBT Activist Murdered
The latest in a series of chilling murders in Bangladesh has been the death of Xulhaz Mannan on April 25 in Dhaka. The murder of Xulhaz Mannan and his friend and fellow activist Tonoy Mahbub marks (…) -
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Lubicon Lake Nation Demands Action, Justice For Ongoing Discrimination And Exploitation
On Wednesday May 18, Lubicon Lake Nation Chief Bernard Ominayak met with Alberta’s Indigenous Relations Minister, Richard Feehan, following the Nation’s recent human rights complaints. In a (…) -
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Fort Mcmurray Forest Fire Displaces Temporary Foreign Workers
80,000 people were evacuated from Fort McMurray during and following the forest fire that ravaged the city last month. Among these 80,000 were hundreds of temporary foreign workers, who have been (…) -
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Resisting Modi: In Conversation with Noor Zaheer
In the midst of the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) elections in India, activist Noor Zaheer gave a talk at Alternatives on May 12 entitled ‘Nationalism and Intolerance in India Today’. Zaheer (…) -
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Israel and Saudi Arabia: Strange Bedfellows in the New Middle East
Israel and Saudi Arabia are burying the hatchet. For at least 10 reasons, that’s not such a good idea. On the surface, it would seem that Saudi Arabia and Israel would be the worst of enemies (…) -
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Imperialism’s Junior Partners
On May 12, Brazil’s democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa) do? Will they (…)
