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Turkey Jails HDP MP Figen Yüksekdağ – AGAIN…
Figen Yüksekdağ and her co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş have been in jail since November 2016
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GR MAGAZINE. Scrittori e scrittrici ricreando i nostri mondi
IN USCITA IL NUOVO NUMERO DI GR MAGAZINE
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Entre intimidación y criminalización: el caso de la protesta social en Costa Rica
Una marcada tendencia del aparato represivo del Estado en América Latina tiende, desde varios años, a considerar como delincuentes y a acusar por delitos penales a diversos líderes comunitarios, indígenas, campesinos, ecologistas, sindicales y estudiantiles
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The Struggle for Peace in Northern Kurdistan…
In amidst the deep silence of the western media in the face of the violent suppression of Turkey’s Kurds
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America Latina dallo spioncino. Operazione Venezuela?
L’alto livello di violenza e l’obiettivo dichiarato dell’opposizione venezuelana di rovesciare il Governo attraverso un calcolato aumento dello scontro sociale e l’uso di metodi violenti, che in qualunque altro paese sarebbero etichettati come “terrorismo urbano”, hanno portato questo paese al
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UK ELECTION 2017: ‘A seismic shift has occurred in British politics’
The 2017 general election was a once-in-a-generation opportunity that the Tories fumbled and Labour exploited to remarkable effect
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TURKEY: More Walls…Less Peace
Turkish President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced plans, at the end of May, to construct walls to the south and south-east with neighbours Iraq and Iran
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Reacciones en América Latina a anuncio de retiro de Estados Unidos del Acuerdo de París sobre Cambio Climático
Ante el anuncio hecho por el Presidente Donald Trump de proceder a “retirar” a Estados Unidos del Acuerdo de París sobre Cambio Climático varios Estados de América Latina han reaccionado mediante comunicados de prensa
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UK ELECTION 2017: ‘Fear trumps facts: why Theresa May is sticking with her migration cap’
Ahead of the British general election on June 8, the ruling Conservative party has renewed its commitment to “reduce and control” immigration to a net figure of under 100,000 – a level not seen for 20 years
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IRELAND: New Head Arrives – Same Old Reactionary Politics?
Ireland now inherits a new Taoiseach and the Fine Gael party a new head on boring-old-shoulders, existing Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar
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La Reunión de Consulta de Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de la OEA sobre Venezuela: balance y perspectivas
Este Miércoles 31 de mayo del 2017, la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) auspició una Reunión de Consulta de Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de los Estados Miembros para examinar la situación imperante en Venezuela
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Refugees, coffins ships and hunger
There are few more haunting memorials anywhere in the world than this group of six tall, bronze figures of emaciated men and women, and one dog, which stand on Quays
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Donald Trump: “… the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord…”
Donald Trump is pulling the United States from the Paris climate agreement, the 2015 agreement designed to halt rapidly escalating and potentially catastrophic climate change
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The massacres of innocents and the attacks on the NGOs
The exhortation of Vittorio Arrigoni [Italian activist killed in Palestine], to remain human, has really become the last great and vital imperative of our time
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UK ELECTION 2017: ‘Theresa May offers nothing but the status quo’
Since the advent of New Labour in 1997, a common trope of general election campaigns has been the (invariably unfulfilled) promise of a new way of doing politics
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IRELAND: New Head on the Way – Same Poison Afflicts the Body
Heir-to-the-crown to the far-right-of-Centre party Fine Gael and likely to win the upcoming party leadership contest, existing Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar got his foot in the door first by launching his campaign against the unemployed
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United States: Medicare-for-All takes on “Trumpcare”
For First Time Ever, Majority of House Dems Support ‘Medicare-for-All’ Bill
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PAIN MANAGEMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT – BUT NOT FOR ALL
56 years ago, in 1961, an international treaty, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs “obligated countries to work towards universal access to the narcotic drugs necessary to alleviate pain and suffering
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Caso Timoteo Mendieta: a propósito de la segunda exhumación ordenada
En días recientes se pudo leer en España que los familiares de Timoteo Mendieta Alcalá, un lider sindical fusilado en 1939 por las fuerzas franquistas, han procedido a una nueva exhumación en una fosa común situada en Guadalajara
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Race for new Taoiseach (Prime Minister) in Ireland
Following the resignation of Enda Kenny as Fine Gael leader, Leo Varadkar, current Minister for Social Protection, could win the Fine Gael leadership contest and take over as head of the Dublin government
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