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The grimmest predictions came true: Afghanistan is in an incredibly acute crisis. More than 20 million people are experiencing food shortages and over 8 million are facing starvation. Poverty is rampant and growing. But that doesn’t have to be the story of Afghanistan – and there is one major move the U.S. can take here.
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Can we inspect the very lens through which we see the world? How can reflecting on the concept of privilege help us here?
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It is not an exaggeration that the West, in particular the United States, is escalating a new Cold War, or hybrid war, with China. In fact, it is quite the opposite: to not acknowledge or warn against it would be taking a completely ahistorical position.
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What makes us change? What changes the way we perceive the world and our place in it? And although privilege is not the only lens through which we see the world, I think it contains an important part of the answer to these questions. Let’s dive in!
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It always seems a bit dystopian: the military investigating its own actions. To be more precise, what seems dystopian – or simply completely corrupt – is that same military concluding that “everything’s OK.” Unfortunately, dystopia is what we find in what we like to call liberal democracies.
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Seven years after Protective Edge, we find Gaza and its children living in conditions that are even more dire than before. The trauma inflicted by Israel’s attacks and by its total siege on the region continues. In fact, it is unfolding as we speak.
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The Taliban has taken power in Afghanistan. It finally happened and it’s terrifying. “Kabul has fallen,” the press tells us. But what’s next? How do we assess what happened, learn from it, and find the best ways to help the Afghan people now?
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