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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 …
Over a 20-year span, Donald Trump made around two dozen appearances on “The Howard Stern Show” on both terrestrial radio and Sirius XM. During the 2016 presidential campaign, recordings surfaced of Trump making numerous sexist remarks to Stern about women’s looks and raising children. Trump even admitted to peeking in on naked women while they …
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Image: Pacifista!/Sara Gómez. All Rights Reserved. Article originally published in Pacifista! and available here. “Hello Carolina, I have a situation”. It was a Thursday at 6:40 in the morning when I received this message. The sender was a social leader who I had met two years prior whilst compiling a report. I will not give …
Read More “An attack against a social leader is an attack on an entire community”
Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a different picture. We found that a child’s potential for future innovation seems to …
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Flickr/Centre for American Progress, CC BY-ND 2.0In a tirade against Jeremy Corbyn in The Sun on 26 April 2017, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson asserted that the Labour leader’s, “ardent anti-military stances actually mean ‘the consequences would be calamitous’ if he ever gets the keys to No 10”. And he went on to say that the …
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Just minutes into a Cleveland Cavaliers’ game against the Atlanta Hawks, Cavs star Kevin Love knew something was wrong. He was out of breath but struggled his way through the first half of the Nov. 5, 2017, game anyway. Moments into the third quarter, it hit him. Hard. For the first time in his life, …
Read More “What Does A Panic Attack Feel Like? Kevin Love's Vivid Retelling Nails It.”
