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Report

Terrorism and tech - Silicon Valley’s violent propaganda headache

4 April 2018 -

Terrorist content has been a problem for internet giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter for years. Silicon Valley has been throwing a lot of resources at the fight against violent jihadist content ...

Interview

Isabel Allende: Fiction is true, fake news is censorship

31 March 2017 -

On the 24th of March Isabel Allende received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent. Gie Goris met the author in San Francisco and had a long interview with her on stories and lies, women ...

Interview

Reza Aslan: ‘Trump is looking for trouble with Iran’

13 February 2017 -

The world was surprised by the travel ban that President Trump proclaimed for inhabitants or citizens of seven mostly Islamic countries. This is, however, only the first step of a much larger strategy ...

Longread

Trump brings the European New Right into the White House. To be continued in 2017?

6 December 2016 -

Everyone fears Trump will give the European far-right parties a boost. But it is the European New Right that laid the ideological foundations for Trump. Their network has been paving the way since 196 ...

Opinion

Leave no one behind.

24 November 2016 -

25 years ago the extreme right( burst onto the Belgian political scene. The election of Donald Trump reminds us that we no longer have the “luxury” to look the other way. There is anger, there is fear ...

Report

CETA reinforces the devastating impact of the Canadian mining industry in Greece

26 October 2016 -

Out of the blue, on a rainy Monday, a glum looking Greek shepherd tells me that CETA will be the final nail in his coffin. This economic trade agreement between Canada and the EU, should have been app ...

Opinion

The militarisation of the South China Sea is too dangerous for simplicities

13 September 2016 -

The recent ruling by the UNCLOS Court of Arbitration in the Hague on the case brought by the Philippines has denied China’s claim to historic rights in the South China Sea. The implications coul ...

Report

Sustainable cities: utopia or reality

1 June 2015 -

As humans continue to evolve, so too do our cities. Today, with more than 50% of the world’s population living in cities, our success or failure in building sustainable cities will shape the fut ...

Interview

21 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit

22 December 2014 -

Like many prisoners on death row, Nick Yarris held on to his innocence throughout his stay. As a twenty-year old drug addict, he ended up behind bars after a traffic violation. Hoping for a sentence r ...

News

RIO+20: U.S. swimming or sinking?

31 May 2012 -

A controversial environmental policy has created serious concerns that a non-committal attitude of the U.S. to RIO+20 will prevent any meaningful outcomes. In times of presidential elections with two ...

Interview

Amiri Baraka: Poetry for the 99%

27 March 2012 -

Considered one of the big names in contemporary American literature, he became famous in the sixties as an avant-garde poet in New York and is now on the barricades alongside the Occupy movement. A ...