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Time to fight for the BBC « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. Time to fight for the BBC. July 21, 2015. Peter Oborne, the former chief political commentator of the Telegraph explains that George Osborne and his neoliberal backers are not just attacking the BBC. They are launching a concerted assault on Britain’s democratic public culture. Since his surprise elevation to the cabinet in May, Whittingdale has made some emollient comments about the BBC. Until then, however, he was an unremitting critic. He shares the antipathy of...This ...

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Publisher of the European Renaissance « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. Publisher of the European Renaissance. July 19, 2015. Aldus Manutius is the man who transformed the printed book into the most effective tool for the accumulation and dissemination of human knowledge of the last five centuries. Culturally exhausted and economically weakened from years of crisis, Europe tends to lose sight of what it once was. They fail to recognise that the reasons behind the extraordinary technological developments that have hitherto characterised Europe.

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Shujiro Yazawa « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. The crisis of democracy in Japan. Shujiro Yazawam Professor Emeritus from Hitotsubashi University and Seijo University in Tokyo explains that Japan is on the brink of changing from a pacifist state to one prepared to go to war if necessary. Now, more than ever, we must refocus international scrutiny on the country’s social movements. The Desert of Forbidden Art.

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Peter Oborne « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. The siege of Damascus. Peter Oborne, the former chief political commentator of the Telegraph, spent two weeks in Damascus and gives a compelling account of people’s struggles and steadfastness in government-held territory. Time to fight for the BBC. The Desert of Forbidden Art.

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China – climate hero or villain? « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. China climate hero or villain? July 25, 2015. Image by Kemal Jufri-Greenpeace. China’s efforts to peak Greenhouse Gas Emissions and move away from coal means other large emitters have no excuse for inaction, writes Joe Curtin of the Institute of International and European Affairs. China is sometimes characterised as a climate villain. This claim is based on its rapidly growing greenhouse gas emissions and status as the largest single emitter. In 2014. And in the past m...

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North African diversities « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. July 19, 2015. Francis Ghilès is senior research fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (Cidob). A fascinating personal account by Francis Ghilès, senior research fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. He recounts the many strands of his singular and very Mediterranean life - Berber and Algerian, Jewish and Islamic, French and English, Arab and European. In Carthage in 1951-57, and then the. Lycée Charles de Gaulle. The loss of Algeria ...

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Joe Curtin « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. China climate hero or villain? China’s efforts to peak Greenhouse Gas Emissions and move away from coal means other large emitters have no excuse for inaction, writes Joe Curtin of the Institute of International and European Affairs. The Desert of Forbidden Art.

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Blueprint for Change « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. By Carlos Cuellar Brown. August 5, 2015. Everything in the universe is changing and social systems are no exception to this constant flux. But change is not an easy thing to accept, especially when it threatens the status quo and the world’s perception of normalcy. Another perennial thinker Buckminster Fuller points out in one of his famous phrases that: to change something we must build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete (Fuller, 1964). The good news is th...

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Seven trends dominating Egyptian media « The Global Dispatches

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Expert Commentary and Analysis. Seven trends dominating Egyptian media. By Ahmed Magdy Youssef. July 19, 2015. Man reading a newspaper in Cairo. Egypt’s media outlets are trapped in a web of biases. Seven trends have dominated the country's media landscape over the past two years. July 3 marks the two year anniversary of the ‘popular’ ouster of the former Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi. 1 Sex scandals and sorcery. Earlier this year the editor-in-chief of. Ibrahim Mansour, suggested. The televised docu...