Blind Faith: How the West Loses Its Moral Compass on Israel
The latest episode of Middle East Monitor's Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani and Nasim Ahmed
Defending the investment: Rossing Uranium and the business of decolonisation in Namibia
Shaun Milton reviews Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo's recently published Defending the investment: Rossing Uranium and the business of decolonisation on Namibia.
Nathália Urban Presente!
Nathália Urban Journalist, Revolutionary. 1987-2024. We are devastated at the passing of our beloved friend and contributing editor Nathália Urban. Nathália was a guerreira who fought fearlessly to let the truth be known through Brazil’s darkest period in modern history.
The Politics of Life
In early November 2024, something historic happened in Spain. The story starts with the violence of climate change. We all saw the scenes of sudden apocalyptic inundation in Valencia: the streets turned into roaring rivers, the people floating away, the piles of automobile carcasses. More than two hundred people died in the disaster.
Frühere Tatenlosigkeit erzwingt drastische Maßnahmen | El País - Spanien
Am Montag beginnt im brasilianischen Belém die COP30. UN-Generalsekretär António Guterres rief im Vorfeld der Weltklimakonferenz zu verstärkten Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel auf. Es sei nicht gelungen, unter 1,5 Grad Erderwärmung zu bleiben, und jedes Zehntelgrad bedeute mehr Hunger, mehr Vertreibung und mehr Verluste .
The Camps and the Gallows
James Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ revisits the trial of Hermann Göring. The post The Camps and the Gallows appeared first on Truthdig.
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
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Gedenkstättenarbeit im Zeitalter der AfD
#UnterDruck Seit 2017 ist die AfD im Bundestag vertreten, in vielen Landtagen und Kommunen war sie es schon zuvor. Was hat sich dadurch für die Gedenkstättenarbeit verändert? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, ist es sinnvoll einen Blick zurückzuwerfen.
Blog Carnival: Discussing the Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Law
In her review of Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice, Isobel Roele mentions the use of ‘reverse-engineering’ as a method of counter-aesthetics.
Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind
Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs- by Prashant GargRead on Aeon
Ukrainian soldiers' rotations on the front line are growing ever longer
The Cross of Military Merit, awarded by President Zelensky to two soldiers who held their position for 165 days, highlights the rising difficulty of rotating infantrymen under constant threat from Russian drones.
The Dawn of a Better Day
Working-class New Yorkers topple a political dynasty and elect Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.
A solidarity letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal
Emmanuella Otubuah writes a heartfelt letter of solidarity to Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Black Power activist, journalist, and unwavering voice for justice who has spent over four decades behind bars after his 1982 conviction for the murder of a police officer, a charge he has always maintained his innocence against.
Respectfully, Bill Gates Needs to Shut Up
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change.
African Military Marxism: Deviation or Innovation?
In this thought-provoking blog, based on his new book African Military Marxism, Adam Mayer argues that Military Marxism influenced the emergence of entirely new political systems in Africa, challenging the notion that Western democracy is the ultimate political model The post African Military Marxism: Deviation or Innovation?
Viktor Orbán: Mentor der Globalen Rechten
Die diesjährigen CPAC-Konferenz in Ungarn war ein Schaulaufen der globalen extremen Rechten mit einer Premiere: Zum ersten Mal durfte mit Alice Weidel eine Rednerin der AfD in Budapest auf die große Bühne. Ihre Fans bejubeln den „Durchbruch auf europäischer Ebene“.
Hauptsache weg von fossilen Brennstoffen | Avvenire - Italien
Am Montag beginnt im brasilianischen Belém die COP30. UN-Generalsekretär António Guterres rief im Vorfeld der Weltklimakonferenz zu verstärkten Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel auf. Es sei nicht gelungen, unter 1,5 Grad Erderwärmung zu bleiben, und jedes Zehntelgrad bedeute mehr Hunger, mehr Vertreibung und mehr Verluste .