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How the ‘Washington Consensus’ allowed the global core to exploit the global periphery though unfair exchange from a World Systems Theory lens.

Josh Trood writes on the pitfalls of the Washington Consensus and the systematic explotation of countries in the global periphery

Non-EU states held to double standards, despite internal deficiencies

Milo Dack writes regarding the double tax standards to which the EU holds Non-EU states, despite Ireland being a tax haven for Google, Facebook and many more international firms

POSTHUMOUS PARDONS: AN ENIGMA

Rhys Jones writes on the third anniversary of The Alan Turing Law, and how justice is still waiting for many gay men wrongfully convicted.

Forgotten Ideas: Emma Goldman on Anarchism, Gender, and Prison

By Peter Marshall “Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the domination of religion; the liberation of the human body from the domination of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose ofContinue reading “Forgotten Ideas: Emma Goldman on Anarchism, Gender, and Prison”

A (sarcastic) critique of “Identity Politics and the Political Spectrum”

By Peter Marshall ONLY A SITH DEALS IN ABSOLUTES -Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith There comes a point when using the wholly academic Wikipedia to make a point becomes as bad as the Reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy (saying “Yeah, but Hitler thought/did that”). Mr. Ivlev wrote a DespatchContinue reading “A (sarcastic) critique of “Identity Politics and the Political Spectrum””