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Climate Crisis
Why 2021 is make-or-break on our climate crisis, and Biden-Xi Cooperation is Crucial

Why 2021 is make-or-break on our climate crisis, and Biden-Xi Cooperation is Crucial

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By Laurie Macfarlane | – ( OpenDemocracy.net ) – Last year will be remembered for many things, and let’s be honest: most of them will be bad. But amidst the hardship and suffering, there is a positive story to be told. 2020 was perhaps the first time in living memory when governments around the world […]

France
Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

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By Chris Myant ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In the small Provençal town of Aups, where the local Catholic church declares République française: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité [The French Republic: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity], above its main entrance, there is a plain and nondescript monument put up in 1881. Its plaque announces that it is there: A la memoire […]

Corruption
Lebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage

Lebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage

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By Walid el Houri | – ( OpenDemocracy) – On 4 August 2020, at 6pm the explosion at the Beirut port sent a destructive shockwave across a radius of more than 7 kilometres. The explosion was heard as far away as Cyprus, but it was felt across the whole world. It is hard to measure […]

Israel/ Palestine
Only one way out: a unitary state with equal rights in Palestine-Israel

Only one way out: a unitary state with equal rights in Palestine-Israel

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By Ghada Karmi | – ( OpenDemocracy.net ) – Everyone who values democracy, justice and human decency should assist the Palestinians in achieving this goal. The Zionist project that established Israel in 1948 always had at its centre the aim of acquiring Palestine’s land without its native population. In the 72 years of Israel’s existence […]

Donald Trump
Iran? N. Korea?  If Trump needs a war to win in November, which enemy will he choose to wag the dog?

Iran? N. Korea? If Trump needs a war to win in November, which enemy will he choose to wag the dog?

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By Paul Rogers | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – With the US presidential election less than four months away, Donald Trump trails Joe Biden in the polls by a substantial margin. His strategy as his ratings decline has been to concentrate on his core vote, which amounts to a little more than 30% of the population […]

Epidemics
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Palestinian Farmers Struggle against Annexation and the Pandemic

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Palestinian Farmers Struggle against Annexation and the Pandemic

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By Salena Fay Tramel | – ( Opendemocracy.net ) – It has not been an easy year for Palestinians, if there ever was such a thing. With the turn of a new decade in January, the U.S. administration unveiled the paradoxically branded “deal of the century” plan—calling for Israel to unilaterally annex about a third […]

Displaced and Refugees
Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

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By Marwa Mohamed | – (openDemocracy.net) – Libya today is facing its greatest challenge to date. In spite of years of internal conflict, the country must gear up to fight a virus with a depleted healthcare system and a fractured state. While the situation is overall bleak, it remains exceptionally desperate for refugees and migrants […]

Pentagon
Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib’s Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib’s Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Open Democracy

Paul Rogers | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – The tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and its allies were doing just a few years ago. Around the world, people are watching the suffering of the people of Idlib with pity; their governments are alarmed at the […]

Saudi Arabia
Will Saudi Arabia ever End its Catastrophic War on Yemen?

Will Saudi Arabia ever End its Catastrophic War on Yemen?

Open Democracy

By Helen Lackner | – ( OpenDemocracy.net ) – While Saudi Arabia seeks an exit from the Yemen war, it is deepening its involvement in the South instead. Last year saw some significant changes in Saudi strategy in Yemen. Following on the UAE departure, the new Deputy Defence Minister, Khalid bin Salman, the crown prince’s […]

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