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Somewhere between Westphalia and Hobbes- Middle East, Africa, Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia
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He weathered those mild student protests outside his UC Berkley office just fine. Unbothered.
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Yet the movement is far greater than Apo the individual.
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Bibi requires limitless conflict to justify not only his current mandate, but his entire political existence.
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Thank you so much for posting this about my dear cousin. I was going to come by the museum today to ask some questions but had no clue it was closed for a vast expansion. I tried calling but there was no answer.
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Hmm so this then means the city of New York is habouring terrorists in its 2 star hotels-turned-migrant shelters being paid for by the tax payer. And trump has pulled fema funding from NYC to pay the rent at said hotels etc.
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Next up on my to purchase list.
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I thought he would switch to the AKP ticket in the next Istanbul primary.
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A friend texted me yesterday he's enrolling his kids in Athens schools since the Santorini schools were shut and the seismic activity (for now) is unending.
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We don’t have such a system here. We have two very different paths for foreign workers. The H1B visa system for skilled tech workers which is tethered to their employer and then we have the informal migration flows across our southern border for unskilled workers to work in the agricultural sector.
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Tragic how migrant workers get caught in the crossfire of every one of these conflicts in the region. The darkest side of the kafala system.
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Were Thai guest workers killed during the 7 October atrocities? I hadn’t read that.
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More than 3 hectares of diversity training.
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I love this song (and only know it from) the soundtrack to Danny Boyle's The Beach.
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Here in New York stores that sell the best quality foods close early and are only located in wealthy heavily gentrified neighbourhoods. Places that stay open late to serve poorer communities sell foods heavily laden with sugar, salt, preserves and food colouring.
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Thankfully it wasn't lost to time once again in a landfill. Amazing.
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Entirely unsurprising and yet completely tragic re the plight of economically isolated, ordinary Yemenis.
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For those of us not up to speed, what has been or is thought to be their root cause?
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Agreed in the hypothetical but I have a hard time seeing all these many moving parts falling so neatly into place. It is hard to imagine the Qandil leadership simply walking away from -in the long term-the armed grievance-based identity politics they have centered their whole lives upon.
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Imagine if Yankee jerseys were to one day have Saudia Airlines splashed across them or the Giants were to have Neom insignias on their helmets as the US goes parabolic into unrestrained global oligarchy. .
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If only we’d had a de facto president harris in 2022.
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As in mentally incompetent after decades of confinement?
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The once disrupter class does not tolerate present day disruptions.
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But toll advocates have not set up corresponding parking lots/garages for this zany, ad hoc park-and-ride scheme.
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The American mission in eastern Syria, which many have called for to be withdrawn ("why are we still there?") may suddenly seem to have renewed relevance.
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Worse than a dumpster fire.
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So much for disavowing transnational salafi thought...
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We follow each other on said other place.
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Yes there's no majlis or ulema societal structure (at least that outsiders are aware of) to mediate terms with.
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So far the cities along the Euphrates have not at all seen a net benefit from the fall of Assad. For Manbij, Raqqa, and Deir ez-Zor things have gotten precipitously worse.