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Thinking, acting, creating, communicating: within its inexhaustible wealth and diversity, human creation is going through a revolution. The masters of the world are trying to appropriate it. We resist.
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After a military coup, artists across Myanmar are making protest art to share their struggle for democracy with the world—See images here
Sarah Cascone
Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy ...
The Pus Nobel Prize
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein
Alfred Nobel was far from thinking - when he instituted the award that bears his name - that it would derive in an affront to humanity from the moment it began to deliver himself with political and ideological criteria and as an instrument of exaltation ...
Dear Elephant, Sir:
Romain Gary (1914-1980)
An old admirer addresses an ardent letter to the largest animal that walks the Earth
You will probably wonder, reading this letter, what could have prompted a zoological specimen so deeply preoccupied with the future of his own species, to write it. ...
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How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night (6 January 2021: watch video here) ...
Malainin Lakhal: Sahrawi poetry, exile, and anti-colonialist struggle
- Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
The poems of the journalist, human rights activist for the independence of the last African colony, ...
Oldest evidence for olive eating found below the sea
- Daniel Sonnenfeld דניאל זוננפלד دانيال سونينفيلد
The discovery off the coast of Haifa made by a group of researchers from most major Israeli universities ...
Islam against Female Genital Mutilation
- Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
In this book, I would like to stress the importance of Muslim feminism and official Islam in the struggle ...
The making of US Empire at the dawning of its end Book review of Stephen Wertheim's 'Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy '
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Academic Stephen Wertheim's new book shines revealing light on the birth of US global supremacy, just ...
Biosecurity and Politics
- Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν Джорджио Агамбен
What is striking about the reactions to the apparatuses of exception that have been put in place in ...
Philosophy of contact
- Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν
Two bodies are in contact when they touch each other. But what does it mean to touch? What is ...
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