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Europe’s flower industry keeps a colonial system blooming The booming European flower sector is worth billions, but the developing nations that provided the genetic material behind many of its blooms have received next to nothing in return. An investigation ...

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Iran's chemical weapon survivors show twin horrors of WMD and sanctions Victims of mustard and nerve gas in Iran-Iraq war now struggle to find inhalers, transplant drugs and other vital medicine

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“The harm that lasts the longest often doesn’t make the news cycle. Estimates of those who died from chemical-weapons-related causes in the years after the Iran-Iraq War (cancers, respiratory failure, slow collapse of lungs) run into the tens of thousands."

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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

All they will find is sand www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Turkey promotes ‘Middle Corridor’ as Strait of Hormuz alternative Officials plan to reopen frontier with Armenia to unlock a Trump-backed trade route between Europe and Asia

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz reignites plans for alternative transportation routes, many of which include Turkey’s, whose geography “condemns the country to geopolitical significance,” as one diplomat eloquently puts it. (🎁 article.)

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All Modern Warfare Is Chemical Warfare — New York Magazine What we witnessed on Saturday in Tehran may be the largest release of petrochemical toxins over a civilian population since the Iran-Iraq War.

"“Every bomb releases poison into the air. The difference is whether we choose to consider the toll.”

From Narges Bajoghli
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‘Tinder for Nazis’ and the woman who hacked it

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Ben Roberts-Smith: Australian soldier charged over alleged war crimes Ben Roberts-Smith, who denies all wrongdoing, previously lost a landmark defamation case over the alleged murders.

The civil trial was the first time in history any court has examined claims of war crimes by Australian forces. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Understanding Insurgency: Popular Support for the PKK in Turkey

Old but one of the best discussions on the topic. open.spotify.com/episode/5tmm...

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The Rise of Far-Right Leadership in Chile and Latin America: Regional and Global Effects | Institute of International Relations Prague - Expertise to impact The rise of far-right leadership in Chile raises important questions about the future of its foreign policy and regional dynamics in Latin America. These developments are further explored by Simon Kaa...

#Chile’s far-right shift under #Kast isn’t an outlier. In our new @ideopop.bsky.social @iirprague.bsky.social policy paper with @lesliewehner.bsky.social, we analyse how #LatinAmerica’s rightward turn reshapes global politics and what it means for #Europe. Read here: www.iir.cz/en/the-rise-...

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The stories of those who have been exposed to this abhorrent form of discrimination. open.spotify.com/episode/5xjW...

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George Monbiot on our fragile food system

A system on a knife edge. open.spotify.com/episode/0YFc...

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One in three women leave academia after having children ‘Motherhood penalty’ sees female academics who have children less likely to secure a tenured position than their male counterparts, finds LSE study

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The Turkishness Contract

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Listen to: Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake — The Atlantic The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

Informative. Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake - The Atlantic apple.news/nowPlaying/A...

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Furthermore the legacy of clientelism and patronage complicates efforts to promote autonomous organisation. Third, repression and resource constraints restrict the operational capacity of many civil society actors.

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Civil Society and a Democratic Transition in Venezuela Podcast Episode · The Venezuela Briefing · 17 March 2021 · 41min

From a couple of years ago: deep political polarisation, often framed in terms of pro- versus anti-Chavismo, continues to structure social and political identities, limiting the potential for broad-based coalition-building.

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Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatory

Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatory. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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