Historical
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South Africans tasted the fruits of freedom and then corruption snatched them away – podcast
Thabo Mbeki, his deputy, took over the mantle of the post-apartheid transition. Gemma Ware Thabo Leshilo The Conversation Mbeki would…
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Environment Minister tells Yoorrook state intentionally cut Traditional Owner groups out of billion-dollar windfall
Victoria’s Environment Minister has revealed the legal frameworks that enabled land to be taken from Indigenous people excluded First Peoples…
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British Military Bases in Cyprus
The British government authorised military sorties against Iranian drones from the Akrotiri Air Bases without informing the Cyprus government —revealed…
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Australia’s recognition of the State of Palestine an overdue move in support of peace
It is time that Australia be on the right side of history, recognise the state of Palestine and stand up…
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NATO Comes to Switzerland, Goodbye Neutrality?
Will Switzerland be next? Daniel Warner CounterPunch In a small step in that direction, NATO will soon open an office…
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An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi review – an insider’s take
The journalist and broadcaster offers a refreshing corrective to narratives imposed on the continent by others Simukai Chigudu The Guardian…
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Friday essay: ‘too many Aboriginal babies’ – Australia’s secret history of Aboriginal population control in the 1960s
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article may contain images of deceased people. The Conversation It contains…
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On the Right to Resist! Then and Now
The book Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror tells the story of my grandfather Benno Neuburger…
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Endangered Greek dialect is ‘living bridge’ to ancient world, researchers say
Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only…
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An Odious British Policy
To María Angela Holguín Cuéllar – Personal Envoy of the UN SG on Cyprus Dear Madam, welcome to my native…
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Debate: The amorality of ‘Oppenheimer’
As part of the research for “Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath”, published in 2013…
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Final Verdict by Tobias Buck review – the weight of collective guilt
Reporting on the trial of a former SS camp guard, the author learns that his own grandfather was an early…
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How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn review – rethinking ‘civilisation’
Like the railway and the telegraph, western civilisation was invented in the 19th century. Steven Poole The Guardian It had…
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OZ KARAHAN: THE ONLY SOLUTION IS A UNITARY, SECULAR, PLURALISTIC CYPRUS
We met Oz Karahan during our recent visit to Nicosia and had the opportunity to discuss at length the past and present…
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France should return much more looted African art, film-maker says
Mati Diop, the director of Dahomey, which charts the restitution of 26 objects to Benin, says the tiny number involved…
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni review – hell on earth in poised prose
In King Lear, confronted with the figure of his cruelly blinded father, Edgar wonders whether matters are as bad as they imaginably…
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