Last night, Russia was kicked out of the World Cup. When the Croatian player Ivan Rakitić scored the winning penalty, the public here in Senegal uttered a joyful cry of satisfaction. I was watching the match in front of a large screen located in the Dakar’s Sacré Cœur district. I could not expect that reaction.…
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The last weeks have been very painful for many activists and human rights defenders. Watching the indiscriminate terror carried out against Syrians in Ghouta while the International Community was distracted or cautious in raising their voice has been another shocking punch in the face for whom he still believes that international human rights law…
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Les écrevisses de la rivière luttent contre la boue qui les emprisonne ; lorsque aussi ce coin de la rivière sera complètement sec, elles mourront dans la prise de la boue transformée en cément. Un couple de chinois, profitant de la situation, se donne à la chasse des écrevisses qui zigzaguent dans l’eau basse. Dans…
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Fuck Humanity. [Signed] Aleppo, April 28, 2016. This is what someone wrote on a wall of Aleppo while the recent bombing campaign of al-Asad’s regime was going on without hesitations, with the backing of Russia, after having buried the ceasefire and started doing what they have always wished to do: annihilate people to win territory.…
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≪Se abbiamo imparato da Tunisi e dal Cairo che la questione del potere può porsi d’improvviso, nel giro di pochi giorni, dalla Sinistra latino-americana abbiamo imparato che la risposta a questa questione richiede decenni.≫ Questo stava scritto su un volantino diffuso da uno dei gruppi che avevano convocato Blockupy Frankfurt 2013. Ebbene, la tappa successiva…
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Llegò la Primavera. Spring has finally arrived! This is what Pablo Iglesias wrote on his party’s website a few hours after the announcement of the results of last Sunday’s local and regional elections in Spain. Is this the beginning of a new regional Spring wave, after Greece massively turned to anti-austerity Syriza? When the Indignados…
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