2019

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27 March 2019

The new issue of Race and Class from the Institute of Race Relations contains a seminal lead article: "Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South" by Michael Kwet:

"This article proposes a conceptual framework of how the United States is reinventing colonialism in the Global South through the domination of digital technology.."

27 March 2019

Last Breath of Operation Sophia Should Push Coalition of the Willing

"The main focus of the Mission, and that which will continue, is “destroying the smugglers’ business model”, that weaselly expression which covers so much..."

27 March 2019

Citizens of Somewhere Else? EU citizenship and loss of Member State nationality

"Member States’ rules on the acquisition or loss of nationality are in principle a national competence.."

27 March 2019

Border Violence Monitoring

"A project documenting illegal push-backs and police violence inflicted by EU member state authorities, mainly on the borders of Serbia/Croatia, Serbia/Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia."

26 March 2019

How a Serbian war criminal became an icon of white nationalism

"Throughout the 1990s, men like Radovan Karadzic, the Serbian politician and convicted war criminal who faces final sentencing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia today, and Slobodan Milosevic would briefly appear on the American evening news.

26 March 2019

UK: Majority of immigration removals called off amid concerns thousands of people wrongly targeted

"More than half of deportations from the UK are called off, The Independent can reveal – raising concerns that thousands of people are being unfairly targeted for forcible removal..."

 

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