Nos enseña Michel Foucault en sus cursos de los años 70 que es necesario distinguir entre dos formas de dominio de las poblaciones: la disciplina y el control. La disciplina pretende normalizar a los individuos de tal modo que su conducta sea previsible y “normal”. Lo consigue mediante aparatos como la cárcel, la escuela, el [...]

…but remember there has been a coup in Britain In the wake of Thatcher’s departure, I remember her victims. Patrick Warby’s daughter, Marie, was one of them. Marie, aged five, suffered from a bowel deformity and needed a special diet. Without it, the pain was excruciating. Her father was a Durham miner and had used all [...]

Amo la noche, por esa especie de terciopelo negro que la habita… Me gusta la forma en que la oscuridad todo lo cubre… Prefiero no tener que ver… Me gusta la oscuridad… Encuentro en ella sosiego, placidez, calma…

Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the [...]

Ten years ago, Katharine Gun, then a 28-year-old British intelligence officer, saw an e-mailed memo from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that confirmed for her in black and white the already widespread suspicion that the U.S. and U.K. were about to launch war against Iraq on false pretenses.

The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism The British government’s threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. David Cameron, the former PR man to a television industry huckster and arms salesman to sheikdoms, is well placed to dishonour international [...]

Julian Assange’s Full Address from the Ecuadorean Embassy In his first public appearance since he took refuge two months ago inside Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange calls for President Obama to end his war on whistleblowers. “The United States must renounce its witch hunt against WikiLeaks. The United States must dissolve its FBI investigation. The [...]

Asilo y emancipación informativa Repudiemos, mundialmente, toda amenaza contra el gobierno ecuatoriano y sus embajadas. Por su propia iniciativa, y definición, la tarea de Assange -y WikiLeaks- debe ser tomada con pinzas científicas y con escepticismo sistemático. No hay otro modo de entrarle seriamente.

The United States would paint itself as a promoter of human rights, but any right to make that claim is long gone Ecuador has now made its decision: to grant political asylum to Julian Assange. This comes in the wake of an incident that should dispel remaining doubts about the motives behind the UK/Swedish attempts to [...]

This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was written by Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee. He is now called Lord Coe. In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Coe by the Vietnam Women’s Union that he [...]