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Know your enemy! The Fireworks that light up Cities and the flaws of the free market logic.

  To provide a summary of 2020, life has been pretty bleak.   The Corona Virus has rampaged through the World, with the UK as no exception as the death tolls that we know of have tragically reached nearly 60,000. ( https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ ) whilst at the same time, millions of people in Britain have lost their jobs, families have broken down and many are already living in fear, loneliness and deteriorating mental health. In response to the ever growing risk to Public Health, the Government have introduced a series of measures which they believe will curb the spread of the virus and protecting those vulnerable as well as businesses who by the day are suffering economically. One rule in particular that is policy during the time of writing this piece is that people are not allowed to mix in households or indoor spaces in groups of more than six, unless all members of the party are from the same household. This measure at least means that there cannot be any Bonfire or fi...
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Disposable Land Sources and Collateral Murder. Understanding Foreign Policy over the Middle East through the lens of Orientalism and the Security Dilemma.

  Disposable Land Sources and Collateral Murder. Understanding foreign policy over the Middle East through the lens of Orientalism and the Security Dilemma.   Liam Miles  - Liam.miles@mail.bcu.ac.uk  Eliska Duskova  Introduction   This Article will merge the Security Dilemma with Edward Said’s 1978 notion of Orientalism, as a method of explaining the rationale behind Western and Eastern Foreign Policy over the Middle East which as argued in this Article has seen the Middle East become a disposable land source for the advancement of Capitalism and Geopolitical Power and Control.    In its simplest form, the security dilemma is an embodiment of political science, which explains the dilemma between decisions taken by a state to strengthen its own security. These actions however, run the risk of provoking other or rival states to act, which in turn inevitably leads to a decrease in the original state of security for the original state, thus produ...
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SNC - Lavalin; charges to settlement, have lessons been learned?

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The significance of corporate criminality and leverage is illustrated through the business activities of a Canadian multi-national company. Economic and political impropriety are often welded together to reap dividends, however is it not time to redress the balance in favour of the collective good? Sharon Hartles was awarded a Master of Arts in Crime and Justice (with distinction) from the Open University in December 2019. She has an interest in crimes of the powerful, including state and state-corporate crime.In an explicit attempt to move beyond criminology, she draws upon a zemiological approach to evidence the social, political and economic context in which crime is produced and interwoven into society via socio-economic inequalities. Liam miles is a Criminology student at Birmingham City University and has a passion for writing on a range of topics including structural inequalities, systematic violence, conflict in the Middle East, Corporate and White Collar crime, and v...
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