It’s not uncommon for the average person to break their dietary monotony by having breakfast for dinner. However, few would ever publicly admit to eating their dessert for breakfast. Replacing the most important meal of the day with empty calories would certainly lead to a day fueled by guilt and anchored by bloat. But a…
Catalonia´s and Scotland´s Flags. Edinburgh, 2014. Flickr. Some rights reserved. Secessionist movements are numerous and they come in all shapes and sizes. In my research I have identified 55 active secessionist movements around the world as recently as 2011. These aspiring nations exist in a variety of countries running the spectrum from repressive authoritarian regimes…
It’s perhaps the most common refrain on the road beside the generic (and always applicable) “MOVE!” Even so, cries of “Use your turn signal!” are often screamed in vain as drivers ahead casually pull a left-hand turn from the middle lane of a busy street. If you do refuse to use your signal even as other…
Click:通义千问api Despite the state emergency in France many decided to join the Climate March and challenge the interdiction to demonstrate. Demotix/ Marie Boyard. All rights reserved. Not since the Algerian War more than a half-century ago has France imposed such sweeping emergency powers. In little more than two weeks since the Paris attacks, French police…
The internet can be a wonderful, weird, and hateful place all at the same time. It has the power to unite us and to educate us, but it also has the power to divide us and to instigate us. Case in point, this single tweet sent by a far-right Twitter user: “I was just sitting…
"Who doesn't long for peace! But this peace is achieved with incentives that look towards a better future, creating jobs, strengthening culture … When I speak with the guerrillas, they are also fed up, they want to sleep in peace, they are also human beings, they also need peace. The army and police also need…
Flight attendants never forget the first time they see themselves in uniform. It’s one of the most exciting moments of their career, even when the uniform is hideous. The first airline I worked for was a low-cost carrier: Sun Jet International Airlines. I was 24, which might explain why I thought I looked great in…
A Peshmerga unit ion the front lines outside Kirkuk. Boris Niehaus/Demotix. All rights reserved.In near-freezing temperatures and a drizzling rain that had turned the red earth to sludge, two colleagues and I trudged through row after row of tents in a camp for displaced people in northern Iraq. “Qais,” about 20 years old, welcomed us…
Since the debate leading to the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act has taken on all the trappings of a religious battle, perhaps it would be good to look at the underpinnings of each side now that House Republicans have unveiled their plan. It is clear from the new proposal, called the American…
Congress of Syriza for the Greek election campaign, January 2015. Demotix/Kostis Ntantamis. All rights reserved.Although the history of the Left has produced an extraordinary theoretical legacy, which continues to be the nucleus of almost all radical thinking, it has nonetheless left a trail of extraordinary failures in practice. I understand the dialectical relation between theory…