There’s no better time for spitting truths than in the days leading up to Christmas. With nativity scenes cropping up on fireplace mantels and snow-dusted lawns, it’s important to remember one key fact, if only for the sake of historical accuracy. Excluding Jews, Arabs, and Africans from your classic nativity scene would leave you with …
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Click:slot milling 24 Libyan bodies brought to Malta, April 20. Demotix/ Christian Mangion.All rights reserved.Loss of life in the Mediterranean during the last few weeks brings the death toll this year to 1,776. 2015 is on course to be the deadliest year on record. The avoidable loss of life is all the more devastating in …
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As you could imagine, the iconic pink “pussy hats” that adorned the heads of many protesting men and women caused quite a run on pink yarn in the days preceding the Women’s Marches around the world last week. Even the most oblivious shop owners would have to noticed that something was afoot given the spike …
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Protest against TTIP. Demotix/Rachel Megawatt.All rights reserved.The emergence in 2011 of the pro-democracy movements of the Arab Spring and the anti-austerity and anti-capitalist movements captured the public’s imagination the world over. From April-September 2013 we conducted research in Athens, Cairo, London and Yerevan and our aim was to build on and expand the existing research …
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2015 Legislative Elections in Turkey. Cuma Çiçek. All rights reserved.Turkey left behind it a thirteen-year-long period of single-party majority governments in the June 7 election. AK Party (Justice and Development Party) lost its parliamentary majority as a result of HDP (Peoples’s Democratic Party) success in overcoming the 10 percent election threshold. It is obvious that …
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LET’S ADDRESS one of the biggest knots in our collective uterus since the 2016 election: Will Roe v. Wade be overturned, seriously jeopardizing the right to a legal abortion in the United States? President Donald Trump — along with aggressively anti-choice Mike Pence as his vice president — was clear all along in his plans …
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“Once a woman is raped, she loses her name.” When Rose Cunningham, an Indigenous women’s human rights defender from Nicaragua spoke those words, she paused for a moment. “People just call her ‘la violada’: the raped one.” This is the stark, dehumanizing power of sexual violence, wherein a person’s identity is erased, pushing her outside …
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It might be easy to assume a four-time Olympic gold medalist diver has never struggled much in life. With that kind of unmatched talent, doesn’t fame and fortune—and presumably happiness (and a Wheaties box)—follow? Greg Louganis, arguably the greatest diver of all time, knows all too well that’s not quite how the story goes. Despite …
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People gather at Konak Square against military coup attempt, in Izmir, Turkey, July 20, 2016. Picture by Depo Photos/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved. Military culture refers to a combination of specific ethoi that shape the military’s institutional behaviour toward inside and outside stimulants including politics. These ethoi can be norms, values, beliefs, ideals and political …
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Today, if the result is ‘Oxi’, the Syriza government will have a mandate to enter a more radical phase of government. A defeat for Syriza would, at least for the moment, extinguish the only left government and much of the credibility that its existence has lent to its counterpart movements all over Europe. More importantly, …
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