In this excerpt from Tear Gas, Anna Feigenbaum describes the history of the Himsworth Report, used by governments around the world to justify the use of tear gas.
On the latest Suite (212) on Resonance FM, Juliet Jacques talks to Charlotte Jones, Teaching Fellow in Victorian & Modern Literature at King's College London, about the cultural impact of World War I in the UK.
Claude Lanzmann's five-hour documentary on the Israeli Defence Forces, Tsahal (1994), is a nauseating tribute to an army that supposedly defends Israel but has become an instrument of conquest and oppression
Two scholars — Grace M. Cho in the US, and Hosu Kim in South Korea — reflect on the recent developments between the US and North Korea, the ghosts of the Korean War, and the need for peace on the Korean peninsula.
Syrian writer Thaer A. Deeb chronicles the miscalculations that have prevented the Syrian left from playing a decisive role in the uprising that began in 2011.
Focussing on the Indian government's counterinsurgency operations against Maoists in Bastar, Nandini Sundar examines how formal democracy works to subvert popular power.
In an open letter to the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, Professor Henryk Szlajfer explains why he will not take part in the official celebration of the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
