Veganism began officially in 1944 when some of the outliers of the Vegetarian Society asked for space in the British Vegetarian Society’s newsletter for those who don’t eat dairy products. Sean Sheehan They were turned down. It must have been a hard life in the fifties and sixties […]
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Russia and NATO, a journey to the bottom of a conflict
In 2007 the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, asserted during the Munich Security Conference that with its expansion, in violation of its promises, NATO was threatening his country and reducing the level of mutual trust. Oscar Julio The Kremlin’s worries were ignored and shortly afterwards, in 2008, the alliance […]
A palliative society, a bare survival
Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born philosopher, based in Germany. Training initially as a metallurgist, he moved west and switched disciplines, becoming now one of our chief public intellectuals. Steve Latham He has examined the impact of social and technological change on the psyche of contemporary culture, concentrating on how […]
Weapons of mass destruction: Lies, masks and privilege
The issue of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons is not new to the West, which has used this argument to destroy entire populations, as in the case of the invasion of Iraq and the repeated threats of invasion against Syria, despite having surrendered and destroyed its arsenal of chemical weapons.
Youth, politics, and participation in a changing Chile
A two hour event at SOAS University campus will take place on 11 March, which will be led, organised and coordinated by young people from the diaspora of the Global South. It will debate the role of youth in changing the paradigm of power at the community, regional, national and […]