2022: A year of ups and downs, mainly downs

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Hunger and desperation: Venezuela’s huge displacement crisis.

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The World Economic Forum has laid out an agenda for giant corporations to move beyond their unofficial and unacknowledged role as unelected rulers of our world and become open partners in the governance of world affairs alongside our official elected governments, with more power than ever before.

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The US is taking on its corporate monopolists – now the rest of the world must follow

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The Afghan woman activist still determined to educate girls

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Spain’s hologram protests. Millions of Spaniards have engaged in protests over the past four years. As of July 1 they can be subject to disproportionate fines and even jail for exercising their democratic rights to freedom of expression, assembly, protest and information. Interview.

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If we lose the Amazon, our world will lose its future

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How the far Right tried to exploit Spain’s anti-austerity 15-M protests. WikiLeaks files also show ultra-conservative campaigners copying tactics from Greenpeace and Oxfam, and falsely claiming left-wing support for their plans

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Open letter: a response from the '100' French scholars

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Women as wartime rapists: a new book explores 'the impossible'. Academic Laura Sjoberg argues that our gendered assumptions about sexual violence in conflict limit our understanding of these crimes.

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Police Chief urged Priti Patel to use Extinction Rebellion ‘opportunity’ to curb protest rights

by LarrySwinger2 to /s/conspiracy from opendemocracy.net

"The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family." This is the next frontier for the Left. Family abolitionists see these horrors as inherent in the ideologically “coercive” institution of the nuclear family.

by Chipit to /s/LateStageCapitalism from opendemocracy.net

Authoritarianism masking incompetence? The case of the Republic of Cyprus

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The curious rise of the ‘white left’ as a Chinese internet insult

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BRICS countries to build digital sovereignty

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Before there was "Cancel Culture," there was the "Vampire Castle" – Mark Fisher's critical essay analyzing the Western Left's obsession with purges

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At the Dawn of Hope, Trepidation: Istanbul’s Elections, the Gezi Trial, and Civil Society’s Future

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