Mainstream Weeklyby Eamon Whalen
August 21, 2021
For years, Rob Wallace warned that industrial agriculture could cause deadly outbreaks at a global scale. It made him an exile in his field.
In early March 2020, Rob Wallace, an evolutionary biologist who had been adrift after an unceremonious exit from the University of Minnesota, flew to New Orleans and then got on a bus to Jackson, Miss., where he was scheduled to speak at an event on health and racial injustice. Wallace, who turned 50 this summer, (…)
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As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd, the cousin of King Zahir Shar. It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise.
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Those eyes were not nude but were surely stripping me, Wanting to decipher the black in me,
Those raised eyebrows were stampeding on my mind trampling me, Wanting to figure out the God in me,
I could hear those poisoned whispers which were raised to a higher decibel, To reach my ears and axe me.
I could read that disdain caricatured on that forehead , Wanting to pierce that needle inside me.
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Music: Maria Farantouri sings ’To Yelasto Pedi’ (The laughing boy) at the 1974 concert by Mikis Theodorakis after the fall of the military junta in Greece
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On 1 June, the Colonels published Army decree No 13, which banned playing, and even listening to his music.
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3 September 2021South Asia Peace Action Network – SAPAN
29 August 2021
Several prominent legal experts, journalists, and human rights activists have reviewed and commented on this Resolution. The editors have consolidated and accommodated multiple voices mirroring vast experiences and realities from across South Asia. Besides relying on the knowledge and experiences of experts, the Resolution draws on a long list of international, regional, and local documents and reports to obtain a fuller picture of (…) -
Include women in the upcoming governance entity in Afghanistan - UN Women Statement, Aug 31, 2021
3 September 2021unwomen.org
Statement: Pramila Patten, Executive Director a.i of UN Women, calls on the Taliban leadership to include women in the upcoming governance entity
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2021
"I take note of the public commitments made by the Taliban’s spokesperson to uphold women’s rights “within the framework of Islam”, including women’s right to work, to pursue higher education and to have an active role in society, as well as the right of girls to attend school. The immediate (…)