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Riccardo Petrella: The militarization of pandemic is dangerous

Vladimir Mitev
Coronavirus
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Riccardo Petrella is an Italian economist who was a scientific and technology policy analyst to the European Commission between 1979 and 1995, becoming a witness and voice of dissent over the EC’s definition of Europe...

Meeting the enemy in a world of war

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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We could be nationalists, communists, liberals, or Islamists. Sooner or later, we will all leave this world. And we will no longer have any of these forms of identity. Could we make our time together...

Iran fights for life. COVID-19 and murderous sanctions

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Analysis
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An earlier version of this article was published on 23 March 2020 at the Polish site ”Strajk.eu”. Every hour in Iran, 50 people get infected with coronavirus and every 10 minutes someone dies - this...

Romanian professionals come out with a large-scale plan against the crisis

Romania crossed the threshold of 2,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and entered level 4 crisis, which means that whole cities and regions can be quarantined. The measure was already introduced in Suceava, where more than...

From “Hit Me Baby One More Time” to calling for a general strike

Boyan Stanislavski
Info
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The famous pop artist published an Instagram post with a quote from the Chinese writer Mimi Zhu. It attracted a lot of attention because of a specific statement within it: "We will feed each other,...

Polish union leader: “Aid funds will end quickly, the scale of unemployment and bankruptcy w..

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Coronavirus
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An interview with Piotr Szumlewicz, chairman of the trade union Trade Union Alternative, shortly after Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki and president Andrzej Duda presented the essential ideas behind their Anti-crisis Shield. Coronavirus has exposed...

European Industrial policy — a Tool for a Green New Deal

This article was published on 26 February 2020 on the Transform!Europe's website. The authors are Cornelia Ernst and Manuela Kropp. Cornelia Ernst is a member of the European Parliament from die Linke. Manuela Kropp is...

The Right to the City. Urban Commons and Sustainable Cities

The Barricade
Analysis
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This article was published on Transform!Europe's site on 22 November 2019. Its author is Birgit Daiber, who is a former member of the European Parliament and former director of the European Office of the Rosa...

Colonial Era Anxiety Still Drives the Representation of China in Western Media

Lucian Ţion
Global affairs
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It’s not only the Coronavirus. China has been making headlines in Western media for the past couple of decades, and, just like today, it hasn’t been framed in a very flattering light. Whether it is...

Feminism in Kyrgyzstan – a dangerous option

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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On this year’s 8th of March the women of Kyrgyzstan, or to be more precise, the feminists of Bishkek, the capital of the Central Asia country, decided to march for their rights. The international press...

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