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When was the last time you stopped taking a prescription early because you were feeling better? What about the time the doctor wrote you a prescription you didn’t think you needed, so you never filled it? Or maybe sometimes, in the middle of a hectic morning, you just forget to take your medicine. It’s a …
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Demotix/Sahan Nuhoglu. All rights reserved. Words define reality; they are the means by which we interpret our experiences and perceive our surroundings. This became especially clear to me this past year, when I spent six months living with a group of young Syrians in the chaos of Istanbul. Though I also visited and worked on …
Look back at the 2008 recession: Economic anxiety hummed under the surface of every social interaction. Estranged from the workforce, young college graduates became alienated and mired in uncertainty. This is the frequency at which Heidi Saman’s debut feature film, Namour, buzzes. The movie, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year and …
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Alexis Tsipras. Wikimedia. CC. The impact of the strategic defeat of last year is still very strongly shaping various reactions within the Greek left. Some people seem content with superficial explanations of what happened and return to habitual ways of thinking and acting; others sense the strategic depth of the defeat and turn inwards to …
Read More “The ‘SYRIZA experience’: lessons and adaptations”
Trump isn’t known for being much of a reader. But on Monday, he took to Twitter to recommend “a great book for your reading enjoyment,” titled Reasons To Vote For Democrats by Michael J. Knowles. If the thought of Trump taking an interest in books (let alone one about Democrats) surprised you for a split …
US State Depertament. Public domain. “He is an ordinary citizen. The farmers say he is a man who understands the people and talks to them in their own language. He is a brother. He has become a role model.” This is how a citizen from the Colombian department of Norte de Santander, close to the …
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It hasn’t been 30 days yet since Barack Obama left office and we already love watching him in vacation mode. He’s cut loose in predictable fashion (the golf course) and less predictable fashion (kitesurfing over the ocean). Now YouTuber NykeFaller has taken the former commander in chief and put him into a setting we likely won’t …
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Thousands celebrate the second anniversary of the 15-M, Madrid, May 2013. Demotix/Betsabe Donoso. All rights reserved.Despite the fact that all of us militants in traditional left organisations did not like it, the truth is that when 15-M exploded in May 2011, public squares were full of people while revolutionary organisations remained empty of activists. Capitalism …
Much attention has been focused recently on President Trump’s “new” foreign policy. This policy change is symbolized by the U.S. missile attack on Syria’s Shayrat airfield, which followed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged chemical weapon attack on rebels in that country’s Idlib province. The National Security Council has also been restructured. Former Director Michael Flynn …
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Military police occupy favela in Rio de Janeiro,April 2015.Demotix/Fabio Teixeira.All rights reserved.Imagine a place where eight Michael Browns are killed every day. Imagine a place where extortion, rape, torture, and killings are routine. This is Brazil. Police terror in Brazil has become so banal that it has lost the media’s interest. Some of us may …
