What Happened to Afghanistan’s Female Academics?
Despite the challenges, the women that researchers spoke to had not given up. Some are finding quiet ways to keep teaching.
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Over a Billion People in the World Live with Disabilities
People with disabilities are neither a minority nor an exception. They are a vast constellation of human experience – one-sixth of humanity (1.3 billion people). And yet, they are too often spoken of as if they exist at the margins of history. In truth, they stand at its centre.
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Nuclear Power and Other People’s Money
Nuclear power would never have existed without government handouts and ratepayer subsidies.
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People Organising Against Data Centres Across the US – 2 Articles
‛Everybody Hates Data Centers’: Anarchists, union activists, Indigenous organizers, and disgruntled Trumpists find themselves side by side in the fight. Also: ‛More Cities Are Pressing Pause on Data Centers as Local Backlash Grows’.
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The Future of Forests
While human communities have benefitted immensely from trees, tree communities (i.e. forests) haven’t always fared so well in the bargain. This article traces the ups and downs of this relationship and inquires why it has grown more one-sidedly abusive in recent decades.
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What Needs to Be Done: A Socialist View
The article outlines an anti-capitalist framework for a humane society. It argues that because inequality and ecological destruction are inherent to capitalism, society must dismantle capitalist institutions and replace them with systems designed for human need and ecological sustainability.
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What Qawwalis Teach Us About Love, Faith, and God
The qawwali is an ocean of ecstasy that invites endless exploration. On the face of it, it is a qawwali of romantic love between mortal beings. In truth, however, it is simultaneously a kalaam of the highest form of love – between the soul and the divine – both of which are immortal.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Israel | Online Blog | Palestine
Einstein Opposed Zionist Colonization in Palestine and Predicted the Current Catastrophe
Among Einstein’s biographers—there are hundreds of them—and in the mainstream media, his extensive political writings on Israel and Zionism have been, at best, swept under the rug, or at worst, completely distorted, identifying him as a supporter of the State of Israel.
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The Importance of Being Mohammad Deepak
In assuming a syncretic name while defending a Muslim man, Deepak Kumar affirmed the possibility of a dynamic, internally plural identity, sustained by a collective memory of interreligious sociability as intrinsic to the good life of a society.
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When Satire Shook the Regime: The Rise of the Cockroach Janata Party
‛Why a Question and Satire Unsettled Modi’: A Norwegian journalist’s question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the viral rise of the “Cockroach Janata Party” shook his government’s tightly controlled political narrative last week. Also: ‛Cockroach Janta Party Memes Have Sent Everyone’s Antennae Tingling’.
