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C.J. Polychroniou ~ Trump’s Plan For Gaza Would Make Colonial Plunder Great Again Can economics fuel conflict and war? Absolutely, and history is full of such examples. But economics can also pave the way to lasting peace, according to progressive economist James K. Boyce.

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Carole Crumley ~ How Can The Study Of Hierarchy/Heterarchy Influence The Future? Examples of heterarchy are elected national assemblies, unions and guilds, or a group activity whose leaders have the requisite knowledge for the required tasks.

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John P. Ruehl ~ The Coming Age Of Border Changes? Trump’s remarks on annexing territory and recognizing Russian and Israeli territorial gains may align with his geopolitical ambitions, but the disruption to longstanding norms of fixed borders sets a risky precedent.

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Andrew Califf ~ Exploring Ancient Understandings Of Meteorites In Archaic Societies Five times a day, approx one-fourth of the world’s population turns toward Mecca to bow their heads in prayer. The Kaaba at the center of this global genuflection has a cornerstone that some speculate is a meteor.

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Shiran Illanperuma ~ Sri Lanka’s New Government Struggles To Increase Public Investment Amid IMF Constraints The maiden budget by Sri Lanka’s new government reflects the limitations of austerity and the need to reinstill confidence in ideas of investment-led growth and industrialisation.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ German Election Solidifies Europe’s Sharp Rightward Turn As Far Right Surges AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ Trump’s Executive Orders Build Toward Dictatorial “Unitary Executive” Power The president’s power grab over federal agencies is the latest example of his use of the controversial legal theory. An interview with David M. Driesen, university professor at Syracuse University.

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Sonali Kolhatkar ~ ‘Only The People Can Save The People,’ Say Migrant Workers The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ An Actual Neofascist Coup Is Now Underway In The United States Trump’s attempt to incite a coup in 2021 and his subsequent victory in the 2024 presidential election speak volumes of the democratic decline in the US. We must admit exactly where we are at this point in time.

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Auke van der Berg ~ Een eiland out of control Het zou het BC sieren om duidelijkheid te geven. Vertel wat de problemen zijn, leg uit wat je daaraan denkt te doen. Het verhaal is namelijk duidelijk: het eiland is uit zijn voegen gegroeid met alle gevolgen van dien.

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Saurav Sarkar ~ Dispatch From Kolkata: LGBTQ Activists Face Mob Attack To be queer or trans in India is a quixotic reality today. There is no doubt that progress has been made over decades – most notably with the 2018 decriminalisation of same-sex relations.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ Data On Corporate Pollution And Emissions Now Threatened Under Trump Researchers have published data on corporate pollution and emissions since 2004. Now the data is at risk under Trump. An interview with Michael Ash, professor of economics at UMass Amherst

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Veel jongetjes van zes, zeven dromen van een carrière als voetballer of popster. Een enkeling ziet zich de Tour de France winnen of glorieert op Wimbledon. Ons buurjongetje van zes daarentegen verraste me door op de vraag wat hij later wilde worden ‘boekhouder’ te antwoorden.

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Jeff Bryant ~ Why Education Reformers Will Find A Home In The Trump Administration Trump’s inclination to mix policymaking with business deals and profiteering is an ideal situation for education reformers like his nominee Penny Schwinn.

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Carole Crumley ~ How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future As we head into a future shaped by climate change, we must find ways to stabilize societies and reduce conflict. Solutions may lie in the archaeological record.

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John P. Ruehl ~ Foreign Companies Driving The Global Privatization Of Domestic Infrastructure The pursuit of short-term cash has sacrificed long-term revenue streams to a variety of foreign investors.

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R. Jarrod Atchison & John Llewellyn ~ Don’t Drink That Water!: The Role Of Counter-Intuitive Science In Conspiracy Arguments History is replete with examples of the tension between intuition and science.

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Daniele Massaccesi ~ 打工妹 ~ Migration As A Means To Female Emancipation This paper explores the present situation of the so-called 打工妹 dagongmei (young Chinese migrant women)

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Madeleine van Strien - Chardonneau ~ Amsterdam gezien door Franse reizigers in de 18e en 19e eeuw In de 18e eeuw wordt het reisverhaal geclassificeerd als onderdeel van de geografie, een van de categoriën van het vak geschiedenis.

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Carole Crumley ~ The Central Role Of Collaboration And Trust In Human Societies Heterarchy, by contrast, embraces the diversity of relationships among elements and encourages the study of systemic change over time.

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John P. Ruehl ~ Who Will Manage Global IP Protections? The growth of new technologies and geopolitical rivalries has complicated international IP protection. WIPO’s flexible, mediating approach may succeed where more rigid regulatory frameworks have struggled, but hurdles remain.

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Carole Crumley ~ Rethinking Rank And Privilege In Human Societies By applying a concept widely used in mathematics and computer science, Carole Crumley has radically changed the way anthropologists see and study societies.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ We Must Create A Broad Anti-Fascist Movement To Fight Back Against Trump 2.0 Chomsky pointed out that 40 years of neoliberal policies had produced massive levels of inequality and increased social tension. Thus, as he put it, “We’re on the road to a form of neofascism.”

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Een beschaafde variant op de opmerking van het Amsterdamse Tweede Kamerlid en later staatssecretaris Jan Schaefer. Schaefer sprak duidelijke taal: ‘In gelul kun je niet wonen.’ Die uitspraak in de Tweede Kamer werd gecensureerd en veranderd in ‘In geouwehoer kun je niet wonen.’

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Sinclair Lewis ~ It Can’t Happen Here Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news.

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Richard D. Wolff ~ Settler Colonialism: ‘It Ends With Us’ In Palestine And Israel Like some other descendants of victims who witnessed such atrocities, I have tried to understand their victimization and the complex effects this had on my life directly and indirectly.

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Coen Holtzappel & Pieter Drooglever (eds.) ~ Professional Blindness And Missing The Mark ~ The Historical Analysis Of Four Major Crises During The First Two Decades Of The Republic Of Indonesia The articles reveal a blind spot in Western research of Indonesian developments in the discussed period.

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Pavan Kulkarni ~ A New Military Strategy Of French Neocolonialism In Africa: Reorganizing Under The Cover Retreat The demand for French withdrawal, initially championed only by the communists and Pan-Africanists, is now being raised by all major opposition parties.

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David Hastings ~ We Have Entered The Era Of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, And Economies Are Being Devastated Marine heat waves are causing record-breaking ocean temperatures that kill animals and impact ocean-based industries.

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John P. Ruehl ~ The Venetian Republic Offers Powerful Lessons To An American One In Need Of Repair Its rise and decline highlight the importance of adaptability in the face of shifting global political dynamics.

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Marjorie Hecht ~ Our Ability To Think In Terms Of Numbers Is Universal, Abstract, And Independent From Language Frederick L. Coolidge explains the link between numerosity and language. Coolidge argues that numerosity does not require language, and that it expresses itself culturally.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ Trump’s Vision For A “Golden Age Of America”: Oligarchy Plus Ultranationalism History never repeats itself exactly, but there are deeply troubling ideological and political parallels between European fascism in the 1930s and Trump’s MAGA vision.

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Lammert de Jong & Dirk Kruijt (eds) ~ Extended Statehood In The Caribbean ~ Paradoxes Of Quasi Colonialism, Local Autonomy And Extended Statehood In The USA, French, Dutch & British Caribbean The complete book online (PDF-file)

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Als je in een regering plaatsneemt met een scheldende eenmanspartij, een partij die als hoogtepunt een ritje op een trekker heeft voortgebracht en een eigen partijleider die met strak gezicht liegt over duizenden nareizers, moet je niet opkijken dat het tijd is om te spreken.

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John Schofield ~ How Archaeologists Can Solve The Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’ In my new book I examine a few creative ways that we can use archaeology to help directly address some of the global challenges that threaten both human and planetary health

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Richard D. Wolff ~ United States In 2025: Social Problems Denied Via Rhetorics Of Refusal Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them.

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Carolyn McKinney & Xolisa Guzula ~ How Schools Use Language As A Way To Exclude Children This is not an argument for mother tongue education instead of English medium education. It’s an argument for bi- or multilingual education. It’s an argument for bi- or multilingual education.

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Vijay Prashad ~ The Colonizer’s Mask Has Slipped To The Floor No wonder France’s President Emmanuel Macron behaved like an old colonial officer when he spoke in Paris on January 6, 2025. France, Macron said, had not been forced out of the Sahel but had decided to “reorganize itself.”

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ There’s Much To Say About Economics Of War, But Most Economists Won’t Address It Traditional economics virtually ignores war, even though economic triggers directly contribute to conflicts. An interview with James K. Boyce.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ Elon Musk Craves Return Of Fascism Across Europe The world’s richest person seeks a descent into deep political crisis so reactionary forces can prevail again—just as they did in the 1930s.

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Keyan Tomaselli ~ Where Global Contradictions Are Sharpest ~ Research Stories From The Kalahari In this book Tomaselli is also able to reflect critically, and not without a touch of irony, on the way the San have been represented over the years.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ Trump’s Imperialism Atop Western Warmongering In fact, the data collected by ACLED shows that countries with elections in 2024 experienced much higher rates of violence than countries without elections.

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Jimmy Videle ~ Guide To Preserving Sacred Land Near You Preserving biodiversity is among the most urgent issues of our time, and it needs to be addressed regionally to succeed. Anthropogenic climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing issues for our planet.

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Sonia Nieto ~ Diversity Education: Lessons For A Just World For the purposes of convenience, and to be as inclusive as possible, in this paper I refer to the movement that is now most commonly called multicultural or intercultural education with the more neutral term diversity education.

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Bas Senstius ~ Martha Gellhorn ~ A Furious Footnote In History In a man’s world she was one of the few women. Whereas her fellow journalists reported the war as if keeping score, she concentrated on the reality behind the statistics. - An interview (conducted in 1991) with an angry old lady.

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Vijay Prashad ~ The Banana Road From South America To China Countries other than Ecuador produce a very large share of the world’s banana product. India produces more than a quarter of bananas, while China produces a tenth.

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C.J. Polychroniou ~ Trump Has Stuffed His Cabinet With Oligarchs Poised To Govern For Their Profit The circle of billionaires in Trump’s cabinet embodies the reign of American oligarchy.

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Bij het nieuwe jaar

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Ashley Berke, Carter Dillard, Beatrix Homler& Rei Stone-Grover ~ How the World Hides Liability For Climate Deaths Nearly half the world’s children “live in countries where risks to their health and safety due to the effects of climate change are extremely high,” according to UNICEF.

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Marjorie Hecht ~ Where Do Living Creatures Get Their Sense Of Rhythm? One of the basic questions in the science of rhythm is whether the brain mechanisms enabling rhythm and entrainment are similar in humans and nonhumans.

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