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Published in: HomeWhy are we mostly ignoring the climate crisis? The message is wrong
Decades of doom-mongering haven’t stopped global warming. We need to make this a story about people, not numbers.
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Published in: HomeThe latter day critics of Noam Chomsky
Has the evil US military corporate complex appropriated Chomsky, the man and his linguistics, without Chomsky in the...
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Published in: HomeRethinking AI through the politics of 1968
We need to pursue a political philosophy that was embraced in '68, of living the new society through authentic...
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Published in: HomeThe Chomskyan revolution and the politics of linguistics
Chomsky is one of the few intellectuals to insist to this day that we can neatly untangle complex webs of state and...
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Published in: HomeThe Chomsky paradox: the responsibility of intellectuals, revisited
Locating Chomsky’s linguistics and politics ‘in their historical perspective’ sharpens many issues for their wider...
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Published in: HomeExplaining Chomsky’s strange science: a reply to Randy Allen Harris
“I am attempting to explain Chomsky’s part in the postwar overthrow of behaviourism and the dramatic triumph of the...
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Published in: 50.50Breastfeeding is best for HIV-positive mothers too – but corporate interests and weak health systems hinder progress
As a paediatrician and health researcher in South Africa, I am acutely aware of the ongoing support that women need...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMental health in conflict: ‘occupation therapy’ needed for Palestinians
Analysing the mental health of Palestinians living in a context of ongoing military occupation and conflict...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dangers of vaccine hesitancy: where does the EU stand?
In 2017, Europe observed a 4-fold increase in measles cases compared to 2016.
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Published in: HomeWhy Chomsky felt ‘guilty most of the time’: war research and linguistics at MIT
This article continues our ongoing debate on whether military funding affected Chomsky's linguistics. The author...
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Published in: HomeChomsky’s choice: how the linguist’s early military work led to a life of campaigning against the military
Noam Chomsky’s choice was to launch himself as an outspoken anti-militarist activist even while remaining in one of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Anti-feminism and anti-gender far right politics in Europe and beyond
The proclaimed support of the EU for gender equality is seen as one element in a wider programme of colonization,...
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Published in: HomeChange in a consensual way
“Because often when it comes to politics, I am sort of a leader. But here I was a follower: and it was a good...
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Published in: HomeFrom Fake to Fact – and then?
Do all of us need to move outside our ‘comfort zones’ and self-imposed ‘echo chambers’, both to come up with better...
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Published in: HomeBeyond fact-checking: the media, populism and post-truth politics
Why do people want to believe what they do? They want meaningful lives. Why do it this way? A report-back from the...
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Published in: HomeThe lobbies of glyphosate: a danger to the health of Europeans and of their democracy
The court summons these citizens received for a few splashes of paint on the facade of this powerful lobby’s...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPutting the Pacific on the Map
The 23rd Council of Parties (COP23) has beeen held this week in Bonn, Germany at the headquarters of the UN Climate...
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Published in: HomePredicaments of policy-oriented security research
If there’s something wrong in the neighbourhood, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! …
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Published in: HomeBiological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction
The sixth mass extinction is already here and the window for effective action is very short.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Team Syntegrity, a comprehensive method of hope
Collaborating, competing, contradicting, negotiating, accommodating and compromising, all took place to different...