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  • Running scared | Eurozine

    Leading up to the March 7 State of the Union speech, Biden supporters were scared. They had every reason to be. The President’s approval rating had dropped from 42% to an abysmal 38%, even lower than ex-President Trump’s before the January 6 riot. Biden’s stance on the Israeli-Gaza conflict was losing him support from the left wing of his party.…

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  • Silent Palestinians in Gaza and Israel

    Editor’s note: This article was first published in Index on Censorship on 9 November 2023. Since then, many of the author’s predictions have been tragically confirmed, above all that of a vast-scale civilian catastrophe in Gaza. ‘Where are you Mohammed?’ I muttered to myself while scrolling down my Facebook feed. Since the start of war in Gaza, as soon as…

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  • Russlands Zukunft und der Krieg

    I. Wenn wir heute über die Zukunft Russlands sprechen, ist das in gewissem Sinne wie ein Gespräch über das Leben nach dem Tod. Russland befindet sich mitten in einer Katastrophe, der Krieg geht immer weiter und das Grauen erfasst uns, wenn wir daran denken, was Russland bereits getan hat oder was unsere Landsleute im Namen Russlands in der Ukraine verbrochen…

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  • On fascization | Eurozine

    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. George Orwell Are there any movements currently in power in Europe, or on their way to power, that can be called fascist? And if so, can those who support these movements also be called fascists? Objectively, in terms of actual practices and…

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  • Russia’s future and the war

    1. Today, to talk about the future of Russia is like talking about life after death. Russia is in the midst of catastrophe, and horror grips us when we think of what Russia has already done, or what our compatriots have done in Ukraine in Russia’s name. I have two pictures saved on my Facebook page which I always see…

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  • Legally sanctioned homophobia in the EU

    Lithuania is one of the most pro-European countries in the European Union and positions itself as strongly opposed to its biggest existential threat – Russia. However, when it comes to civil rights, the moral compass of the political elite sometimes points more towards the East than the West. This is particularly the case with LGBTQ people’s rights. A good example…

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  • Bleaching blue collars | Eurozine

    ‘One day a poster announcing the “preparatory course”, an accelerated training programme for university, appeared in a village in central Poland. The ad presented Pokusa – a surname meaning temptation – as the first to enrol: He was accepted after passing an exam. Now he is one of the best students! “You just have to want to do it,” he…

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  • A small World War | Eurozine

    By the end of September 2023, the ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh had quickly faded from the attention of the world’s media. The last of the 120,000 Karabakh Armenians had streamed out of their ancestral homeland, leaving behind the less fortunate to face the possibility of show trials in Baku or, worse, possible forced disappearance. Several Russian peacekeepers,…

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  • Taking water for granted | Eurozine

    Oana Filip: How did your academic interest in water develop? Liviu Chelcea: I started becoming interested in water supply systems when I was doing research into housing nationalisation and restitution for my doctorate. This led me to apply for a Fulbright scholarship in the field of urban infrastructure, based at the New School for Social Research in New York. I…

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  • Now you see me, now you don’t

    Ferenc Laczó: You state in your new book Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation that the Ukrainian question, now and in the past, has repeatedly become acute at the most critical turns in global history. You also highlight that Ukraine has quite a unique status in global history as a geopolitically crucial borderland. Could I ask you to highlight some…

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