Damien Short: redefining genocide

[ad_1] Genocide is historically known as the systematic mass killing of a group of people, but in reality it is a delicate and very complex phenomenon. In his book “Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death, and Environmental Genocide” (Z Box 2016), writer Damien Short systematically rethinks how academia currently describes …

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Al-Akhbar: Aoun blocks the road to Salama

[ad_1] Al-Akhbar wrote: The message that President Michel Aoun wanted to convey to the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, can be summarized as follows: “No to the cancellation of subsidies” for medicines, fuel, wheat and the food basket. To do this, they met yesterday at the Baabda …

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The apartheid system between South Africa and Palestine

[ad_1] There are many comparisons between the apartheid regime in South Africa and settler colonialism in Palestine. Some of them went to “celebrate” the removal of the former, but American writer Andy Clarno, an assistant professor of sociology and people of color at the American University of Illinois, who spent …

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Britain is “protecting” the Saudi oil fields

[ad_1] At the same time, the effectiveness of the British role in supporting the Saudi aggression against Yemen is revealed. It appears that London’s operational role has finally been expanded to include the “protection” of the Saudi oil fields, following the attack on the two “Aramco” oil facilities by the …

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Bob Kaufman: Poet of Holy Obscenity

[ad_1] “Screaming louder than pain, we forgive ourselves; / Original sin seemed to be a broken cylinder. / The Lord played the blues, to kill time, all the time. / Red rivers brought us to life” . Before his poetry, the biography of Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) and his life in …

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Trump’s surprises do not end: two months of “anguish”

[ad_1] In a further step toward acknowledging defeat, outgoing US President Donald Trump announced, for the first time, his intention to leave office if the electoral college confirmed, at its meeting scheduled for December 14, that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, had won the presidential election. A step that was …

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