Secularism is a Women’s IssueA humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Afghanistan that is bound to have far-reaching implications that will not be limited to the war-ravaged country. According to a recent UN report, around 60 per cent of Afghanistan’s 38 million people will be affected by the impending food crisis. Only 5pc of the population has enough to eat. The situation will worsen as emergency humanitarian aid is delayed.
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Afghanistan: On the brink of catastrophe
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I travelled around Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. This is what I saw
26 November, by siawi3“I’m going to say to the world’s leaders, shame on you for what you did to Afghanistan. Why did you have to do what you did? And why are you doing this to this part of the world?”
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Algérie : Ce corps féminin qui irrite la politique !
26 novembre, par siawi3Dans l’imaginaire islamiste, l’image de la femme est entre celle de la mère et de la pute. En permanence, elle est soupçonnée dans tous ses actes. En permanence, il lui est mandé de se justifier.
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Algérie : “On n’écrit pas l’Histoire avec une gomme”
26 novembre, par siawi3Un document historique précieux et exceptionnel, écrit sur la base des témoignages d’un acteur de premier plan de la révolution algérienne et, à l’époque, dernier survivant des trois membres du Comité interministériel de guerre (CIG), composé de Lakhdar Bentobbal, de Abdelhafid Boussouf et de Belkacem Krim. “Je m’étonne que des universitaires et intellectuels algériens n’aient pas fait l’effort d’aller recueillir les témoignages des acteurs qui sont encore vivants”
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Algérie : Le suicide collectif
26 novembre, par siawi3Le pays a été précipité dans les abîmes. Les espaces de socialisation sont livrés aux forces les plus rétrogrades. Les institutions qui ont vocation à produire du sens sont peu à peu gagnées par une “pensée” sclérosée. Dans le vacarme des nouveaux ayatollahs de la pensée, les voix de la raison sont inaudibles, quand elles ne sont pas éteintes. Réfractaires à la raison scientifique, l’école et l’université sont soumises à la règle de la bigoterie.
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L’Autre Algérie : Le rêve collectif et ses mille morceaux brisés
26 novembre, par siawi3Les pays qui ne rêvent pas d’eux-mêmes ne font pas rêver les leurs ni les autres. Proverbe d’un pays rêvé.
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Cuba’s Homegrown Covid-19 Vaccines Poised to Protect Millions in Poor Nations
26 November, by siawi3Cuba has poured billions of dollars into creating a domestic biotech industry since the 1980s, when a combination of an outbreak of dengue fever and new economic sanctions from then-president Ronald Reagan forced its hand. Despite a crushing blockade by the United States, responsible for a third of the world’s pharmaceutical production, Cuba’s biotech sector has thrived: it makes nearly 70% of the roughly eight hundred medicines that Cubans consume and eight of the eleven vaccines in the country’s national immunization program, and it exports hundreds of millions of vaccines a year. The revenues are then reinvested into the sector.
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COP Is Dead. Long Live the Movement!
26 November, by siawi3Their agenda and calendar can not and will not be ours anymore. We, the climate justice movement, need to create our own agenda and our own plans. We, as a movement, need to be discussing our power and our own program without fear, instead of discussing the official COP and governmental plans.
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India: Jeet Vashisth, the Bajrang Dal and the Hindutva Hate Machine
26 November, by siawi3Hate crimes like the desecration of religious spaces and the economic harassment of Muslims via intimidation are not simply activities that end after they have happened. The value they offer to the Hindutva ecosystem is in the vast digital reach they provide as propaganda units, by which thousands of people are invited to be inspired by and replicate this violence.
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USA: Texas’ abortion ban is having a ‘domino effect’ on clinics across the U.S.
26 November, by siawi3When Texas abortion ban Senate Bill 8 took effect on September 1, phones at the four Whole Woman’s Health abortion clinics in the state wouldn’t stop ringing. Clinic staff in Austin, McAllen, Ft. Worth, and McKinney were inundated with calls from confused and scared patients seeking abortions hoping they could still access care in their communities.
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