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"Bullets from the military police ('PM') only kill black people". Protest in São Paulo, 2014. Image: Oswaldo Cornetti/fotos públicas. Some rights reserved.Latin America faces an increase in the use of violence as a way to resolving everyday conflicts. The overwhelming presence of organized crime in most Latin American countries has led to homicide rates which multiply …
THE GOOD NEWS: Trump may not be entirely serious. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which was dubbed “Star Wars” by its detractors. SDI was intended to defend the United States from a Soviet nuclear attack using land and space-based laser systems. The defense proposal never made it into orbit …
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THE GOOD NEWS: Public reaction to Stallone’s tasteless tweet shows there’s no tolerance for Parkland survivors being mocked. Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has rankled many Republicans after becoming a vocal gun-control advocate in the aftermath of the shooting which killed 17 people at his high school, which has led to some lashing out …
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Click:electronic components distributor Piazza Santi Apostoli demonstration demanding justice for Giulio Regeni and other victims of the Al Sisi government in Egypt. Rome, Italy, February 13, 2016. Andrea Ronchini/Pacific Press/press association. All rights reserved.This is another interview in a series on the dilemmas and contradictions researchers encounter in undertaking research in the Middle East. The …
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Image courtesy of María Elvira Espinosa Marinovich, via 070. Post-conflict Colombia is diverse. All the areas, territories and regions where the armed groups operated during the conflict are now posing new challenges to the Colombian State – political challenges which the country has not faced before because, until now, its politics were primarily centered on …
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Catalan independists gather in Playa de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, on 2 October 2017 to celebrate the result of their referendum. NurPhoto/Press Association. All rights reserved. And now what ? What will happen on and after October 2, after the referendum organised by the autonomous Catalan government and its failed repression by the central Madrid government ? For …
President Donald Trump has a long history of victim-blaming. He told the widow of a Green Beret killed in Niger last year that her husband, “Knew what he was getting into.” Trump saw the counter protesters during the bloody “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as equally responsible as the white supremacists. “I think …
MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft.Wikicommons/ U.S. Air Force photo/Lt Col Leslie Pratt. Some rights reserved.The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or drone as it’s more popularly known, can be considered the military technology of the moment. Touted for both surveillance and strike capabilities, drones are being embraced by a growing number of nations, who are drawn to …
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People may be able to recognize Target’s iconic bull’s-eye logo from a mile away, but when it comes to the retailer’s branding for a new womenswear line, customers are scratching their heads as to what the letters in front of them are actually trying to convey. Using an acrostic, vertical approach to messaging, the company offers …
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Barcelona Town Hall, June, 2017Day one, Sunday: It is great to be back in Barcelona. Last week-end I bumped into a group of residents protesting that they wanted more refugees in their city and calling on the state to lift their dishonourable blockade! But the heat is a disincentive for any extra sightseeing – everyone …
