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Archives for December 2021

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

Middle East Monitor

By Ali Abu Hableh | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The Israeli coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid has set its sights on accelerating the implementation of the “Greater Jerusalem” project, which covers ten per cent of the area of the occupied West Bank and cuts it in two. The intention […]

Afghanistan
What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

The Conversation

By Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam | – It was April 1995, and I was preparing to travel to Afghanistan for my first volunteer post with a UK charity. I had travelled to London to meet the Afghanistan director for the non-governmental organisation (NGO) I was going to be working for and now sat in their tiny […]

Employment
The “Graveyard Shift” in a Pandemic World: The Real Meaning of Supply-Chain Woes

The “Graveyard Shift” in a Pandemic World: The Real Meaning of Supply-Chain Woes

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com) – In mid-October, President Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, joining the nearby Port of Long Beach, which had been doing so since September. The move followed weeks of White House negotiations with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, as […]

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