Sight-Seeing: Why today is the right time to protest
Against the backdrop of widespread protests over the death of George Floyd and racism in the US, Sight contributor CHRISTOPHER GILBERT reflects on his own experience while living in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s…
Essay: Militarisation has fostered a policing culture that sets up protesters as ‘the enemy’
Former US police officer and now a visiting associate professor of sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston, TOM NOLAN looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, says police culture in the US appears to be stuck in an “us vs them” mentality…
ESSAY: DONALD TRUMP’S SPACE FORCE – THE DANGEROUS MILITARISATION OF OUTER SPACE
In an article first published on The Conversation, GBENGA ODUNTAN, of the University of Kent, says US President Donald Trump’s pans for a militarised “Space Force” is concerning and should be subject to the “fiercest scrutiny”…