Flickr/Palestine Solidarity Project. Some rights reserved.On 24th November 2015 the US secretary of state John Kerry expressed his solidarity with his Israeli hosts when he remarked, “Clearly, no people anywhere should live with daily violence, with attacks on the streets, with knives, with scissors, cars.” It is just a pity that he did not add …
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On Thursday, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed to reporters that the U.S. military had dropped a GBU-43 bomb on an area of eastern Afghanistan. The GBU-43 bomb is often referred to in the military by its nickname “MOAB,” or “mother of all bombs.” MOAB actually stands for massive ordinance air blast, according to The Guardian, and is …
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The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. Hrant Dink..Adalet ( justice!). Demotix/J Kojak. All right reserved. The question in the title has been posed over and over again in the nine years since the day when Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul, in …
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Last Friday afternoon, my Iranian grandmother was anesthetized in a white operating room, in a hospital in America, where a doctor removed the uterus that had housed my mother 62 years ago. At about the same time, our new president announced the United States would no longer be a home for millions of people like …
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IS fighters in Raqqa with captured weapons, Jan 2014. AP Photo/Militant Website. All rights reserved.Raqqa, 4 February 2016 Thank you for your letter and all the news from Baghdad. I am glad to know that your sister has recovered from her injuries, especially as medicines are in such short supply. I hear that the collapse …
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“Bad & Boujee” is how Kim Kardashian describes a photo of herself and friend Stephanie Shepherd sipping coffee from take-out cups and pretending to eat cookies, apparently taken on a disposable camera, but posted to Instagram. If they weren’t on Kim’s private jet, it’s the kind of photo you’d probably see on the Instagram feed of any young, …
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Click:electronic parts suppliers War graveyard from 1992-5 Bosnian war. Demoted/Sulejman Omerbasic.All rights reserved.The news of 35 people, including 14 babies and children, drowning in the Aegean Sea last week wrenched my heart. What does it take, I wondered, to make a mother lift her child onto a rickety, overcrowded boat? How does she swallow her fear? And …
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Much like the Trump presidency, Brexit started out as a joke and has since become all too real. It’s been nine months since Britain voted to leave the European Union, and while no major catastrophes have happened in anticipation of their imminent exit, it still seems highly unlikely transition efforts will go smoothly. On Thursday, …
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Jens Weidmann, President of Deutsche Bundesbank speaks on Rebalancing Europe, 2012. Wikicommons/Magnus Manske. Some rights reserved.In a recent paper, Guido Montani – professor of international political economy at the University of Pavia and former secretary general and president of the European Federalist Movement – takes a look at the recent clash between Greece and its …
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I first smoked marijuana when I was thirty years old. I found it to be more fun than alcohol. And more spiritual. It reminded me why I became a Quaker. It helped me see the inner light in people. The next realization was that it was insane to make this simple plant illegal. In reading …
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