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Humanitarians in Libya

What can ten humanitarian activists tell us about today’s (and yesterday’s) geopolitics? In politics, and especially genocidal politics, the micro...

27.06.2026 6

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West Papua and the Genocide Mosaic

The patterns of genocide, or the various ways humans go about killing large groups of other humans and their attempted justifications for doing so,...

13.01.2026 40

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Mud, Poetry and Political Imagination

The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t....

06.01.2026 30

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How UN Betrayal of West Papua Led to Genocide, Step by Step

The facts show that, in this six-decade-plus crime against humanity, Indonesia has been the tool of other interests, that the role of the United...

24.10.2025 20

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Every Day Aspects of Another Genocide

Photo courtesy of International Lawyers for West Papua. Photo courtesy of International Lawyers for West Papua. Photo courtesy of International...

05.10.2025 10

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Every Day Aspects of Another Genocide

Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. – Bertolt...

05.10.2025 20

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Pigeon Life

When people say they hate pigeons, I want to ask them if they hate themselves, too. Does it prick the well of your loathing? Do they make you feel...

05.09.2025 20

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Confucius Speaks About Palestine

Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but the unsaid thing is that it is alright because that’s what those people do … – Omar El Akkad, One day,...

27.07.2025 10

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What Color Was He? The Killing of Deris Kogoya

What kind of place is this where the lives of young people can be taken from them, leaving a mangled mess of tissue and bone behind, and where a...

14.05.2025 20

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What We Lost

Life as inventive sequence has a particular character, a certain quality of brilliance that beggars comparison with our busy busy world of...

27.04.2025 20

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West Papua and the Sweet Taste of Murder

In its increasingly militarised torture mode of governance, the Indonesian regime—now headed by Prabowo Subianto, notorious for his war crimes in...

08.04.2025 20

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