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As statues fall, a new history is remembered.
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History is not being erased by those seeking to topple the statues of slavers and murderous white supremacists; it is being remembered. That is the real sin as far as the protesters’ detractors are concerned. What protesters are doing on both sides of the Atlantic is compelling entire nations to confront their present through a…
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Society is a Contract.
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I saw so many people online saying: “These riots are disgusting, this is not how a society should be run. You do not loot and you do not burn and you do not… this is not how our society is built.” And that actually triggered something in me, where I was like: man, okay… society,…
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Demokratieindex 2019.
Schelte für Spanien, Italien steigt weiter ab–
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) hat den neuen Demokratieindex für 2019 veröffentlicht. Diesmal wurden 22 der wiederum 167 analysierten Staaten als vollwertige Demokratien eingestuft, zwei mehr als vor einem Jahr. Es sind dies Norwegen, Island, Schweden, Neuseeland, Finnland, Irland, Dänemark, Kanada, Australien, Schweiz, Niederlande, Luxemburg, Deutschland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Uruguay, Österreich, Spanien, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Frankreich,…
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Europe is for exigents.
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Dear colleagues, when we ask ourselves about the future of Europe, the first thing to solve is: which role should we give to citizens? If we don’t solve it, in a few years, with other MEPs, the same debate will have to take place and it will be a defeat. Do we want to be…
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Harvie: Johnson makes independence more inevitable.
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The contempt shown to Scotland by the Prime Minister in ignoring the [request for powers to hold a second independence referendum] is hardly surprising. This is a government taking Scotland out of Europe against its will, trashing our devolved settlement and throwing our budget process into disarray. It is the poorest and most vulnerable in…
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The right to choose (or not to lose?)…
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Three times now we have sent a pro-independence majority to Westminster, at least twice we’ve sent a pro-independence majority to Holyrood. The people of Scotland want the right to choose, and I think it’s the weakness of the unionist argument that the best thing they can say is „we’re not going to let you decide.“…
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Efforts can succeed.
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Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen. – Noam Chomsky See also: 01 02 03 04 Engagement/ Feuilleton/ · Quotation/ · Noam Chomsky/ · · · · English/ Einen Fehler gefunden? Teilen Sie es uns mit. | Hai trovato un errore? Comunicacelo.