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Month: April 2015

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Hillary Clinton – Of Glass Ceilings And Shattered Countries

16th April 2015

We live in a time when compassionate rhetoric is used as a weapon of state-corporate control. The rhetoric focuses on ethical concerns such as racial, gender and same-sex equality, but is disconnected from any kind →

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When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia

8th April 2015

The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from ‘mainstream’ media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to ‘free speech’ in ‘advanced’ Western democracies. ‘Je suis Charlie’ →

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