On the night of February 6th, an earthquake shook the lives of the Turkey. The death toll has since reached over 50 000 in Turkey and over 8000 in neighboring Syri This is the story of how the Turkish government caused thousands of lives to be lost.…
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The political landscape changes quite frequently with new ideas, views and notions born from time to time. Lately, one might argue these concepts have tended to end up on the left side of the traditional political spectrum when arrangements are made to create order among newer elements in the old…
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In the long term, climate change is an existential problem for our species. In the short term, it is an existential threat to democracy. No government has a plan that is compatible with the goal everyone has agreed on, which is to limit the increase in the average global temperature…
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Putins breda stöd i Ryssland förklaras ofta med att landets befolkning har indoktrinerats med propaganda i generationer, att folket är passivt och inte törs forma och uttrycka egna åsikter av rädsla för att begå Orwellianska tankebrott. Det sägs att de inte känner sig berättigade till åsikter om saker som är…
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Uttalanden från USA:s president Joe Biden har förändrat förhållandet mellan USA, Kina och Taiwan. Hur ställer sig USA i händelse av en kinesisk invasion av Taiwan? Under en intervju med det amerikanska nyhetsbolaget CBS i september förra året fick USA:s president, Joe Biden, frågan om USA kommer att försvara Taiwan…
Read MoreThis month, the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament held its first annual conference in light of the developments in Ukraine. Uttryck’s Lycke Holmén met Robert E. Kelley at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research to talk about the latest developments around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.…
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Earlier this year, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) went on a regional tour in the South Pacific hoping to secure a multilateral trade and security deal. Although Wang Yi (王毅) was unable to seal the grand deal, numerous bilateral agreements were signed between China and the island nations, and…
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Imagine if we could reach consensus on polarised issues like abortion or climate change, which for years politicians have largely failed to adddress, by randomly picking ordinary people to discuss them together – sounds like a naïve utopia, right?…
Read MoreMayhem broke out as YouTube deleted two German-speaking Russia Today (RT) channels following an earlier suspension of another German Russia Today channel. From this came talk of alleged censorship and the suppression of press freedom. …
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The concept of “settler colonialism” has been applied with an emphasis on Israel in recent decades, while being neglected regarding the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the subsequent displacement of Cypriots. Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus prompted the displacement of at least 210,000 Greek and Turkish Cypriots from their…
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