Le Pen Banned from 2027 Elections: Justice or Conspiracy?

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

In a week of high political drama, far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her allies condemned the sentence she received last Monday for embezzling public funds as the culmination of a judicial witch hunt. Her protégé and National Rally President Jordan Bardella decried a “tyranny of judges.” Justices have since received death threats, and at least one judge is under police protection.  Read More

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Evicting Vulnerable ahead of Paris Olympics is “Social Cleansing”

Monday, July 1, 2024

On a Tuesday morning in late May, at least three dozen police officers surrounded an encampment of migrants in central Paris. The streets above the banks of the Seine were virtually empty and the cafés still closed when they evicted more than 100 boys and young men, many from West Africa. It was just past 7 a.m.  Read More

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Chile: Struggling to Emerge from 50 Years of Neoliberalism

Sunday, October 15, 2023

September 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of a bloody coup d’etat that toppled Chile’s socialist government in 1973. Led by General Augusto Pinochet, the military dictatorship that took power killed or “disappeared” more than 3,000 people over the next 17 years. What is less well-known, is that ousted President Salvador Allende’s ambitious socialist programme was replaced by one of the earliest and most expansive neo-liberal experiments in the world.  Read More

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The Hierarchy of Suffering * La Hiérarchie de Souffrances

Some tragedies are prized over others.  From the heroes we put on pedestals to our choice of commemorations, it is clear that some atrocities are engraved in our collective memory while others are all but ignored. In this article for MediaPart I argue (in French), that this hierarchy of suffering is part of a continuing pattern of inequality. Read More  Read More

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CHILD MORTALITY: A strategy that could help arrest its rise

Not far from the beaches and cafés of seaside Cape Town, is the township of Du Noon, where children play in rubbish-strewn streets near pools of stagnant water and lop-sided rows of outdoor toilets. “They play and eat without washing their hands, so it’s not healthy,” says local health care worker, Nontuthuzelo Debesse, who is […]

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Le Pen Banned from 2027 Elections: Justice or Conspiracy?

In a week of high political drama, far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her allies condemned the sentence she received last Monday for embezzling public funds as the culmination of a judicial witch hunt. Her protégé and National Rally President Jordan Bardella decried a “tyranny of judges.” Justices have since received death threats, and at […]