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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...

yesterday 30

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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 9

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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 40

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Clamour

Jeffrey St Clair reminded me that St Paul hated clamour. For him, submission was the great virtue. In Ephesians 4: 31-32 he lumped clamour together...

25.03.2025 9

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Three Dead Boys

Ahmed Samra (17), Ahmed Elawdan (16), and Seifalla Elbeltagy (15) weren’t just dead. Between December 27 and 29 they were left to die, made to die...

23.02.2025 10

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About Knowledge

As early as 1966 Lovelock warned Rothschild that fossil fuel combustion was leading to catastrophic pollution and that it would have to be replaced by...

16.01.2025 10

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The Wrongs of the Rights

Extremely dangerous ground which requires the most scrupulous prudence and caution, language also constitutes a powerful weapon through which the...

15.12.2024 5

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West Papua: Where Transmigration Means Genocide, Ecocide and, in the End, Suicide

For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its...

22.11.2024 10

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Animals and Animals

We belong to nature, we are one flesh and one blood with nature, we are one brain with nature. – Friedrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature, 1883. A...

13.10.2024 3

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Plane Downed at Ndola: A UN Self-portrait

The night of 17-18 September 2024 will mark the 63rd anniversary of the death in a plane crash near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) of the...

11.09.2024 4

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