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To destroy Gaza completely and utterly

LANYARD: The Israeli army has dropped more than 70.000 tons of bombs over the area. That's more bombs than in Dresden, Hamburg and London combined during the Second World War – and three times the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. What happens to concepts like democracy, rights and justice in light of the genocide in Gaza?
Mikkel Bolt -

Politically correct decolonization ideology?

MODERNIZATION: The Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò looks at power relations between the formerly colonized and colonialists. All states strive to adapt modern institutions to their own history, cultural context and ideological climate. But can the demand to decolonize the language become absurd?
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Breaking the silence on the Lebanese civil war

THE WAR IN LIBANON: About a War shows how understanding history can contribute to reconciliation and progress in a society where it is still taboo to talk about the past.
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Colonial voyeurism re-visited

It is difficult to determine whether the documentary African Mirror – based solely on archival material – will rehabilitate a colonial consciousness, criticize colonialism, or rather be an essayistic nostalgia for the colonial gaze.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Water management mismanagement

The water sources of Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities, are running dry. This is the story of a notified disaster.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Spain's fascist shadow sites

Spain's Juan Carlos I was without his own property when he became a monarch in 1975. In 2012 his wealth was estimated at 1800 million euros. Where does all the money come from?
Marc Molas Carol -

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