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  • Running scared | Eurozine

    Leading up to the March 7 State of the Union speech, Biden supporters were scared. They had every reason to be. The President’s approval rating had dropped from 42% to an abysmal 38%, even lower than ex-President Trump’s before the January 6 riot. Biden’s stance on the Israeli-Gaza conflict was losing him support from the left wing of his party.…

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  • The Ides of March | Eurozine

    The ravages of Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine are nothing less than ecocide. As the Commander in Chief and under the doctrine of command responsibility, Vladimir Putin is accountable for the acts of the Russian armed forces, who have unleashed grave and potentially irreversible harm on the environment of Ukraine. His war is jeopardising the social and economic benefits anticipated…

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  • Booze is a symptom, not the problem

    The top 10 countries facing alcoholism globally are almost exclusively European. In 2019, 8.4 percent of the EU’s population aged 15 and older consumed alcohol every day. According to the World Health Organization, Europe has the highest proportion of drinkers and the highest intake of alcohol in the world. Factors that lead certain people, or even certain populations to have…

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  • Israel bias in CEE | Eurozine

    The wave of solidarity with Gaza that has swept across western Europe over the past months stops at the borders of the Czech Republic, where most people seem unconcerned by the plight of the Palestinians. This is an attitude it shares with the Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. The Czech journal A2 explores the reasons for the staunch support for Israel…

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  • The view of the eye

    Sight has long been viewed as humankind’s primary and most noble sense. It has left traces in our language, just as in the preceding sentence: to view something is both to consider and to look at something. Another example: to say that I want to scrutinize something – understand something that’s not directly visible to my eye – is everyday…

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  • Silent Palestinians in Gaza and Israel

    Editor’s note: This article was first published in Index on Censorship on 9 November 2023. Since then, many of the author’s predictions have been tragically confirmed, above all that of a civilian catastrophe in Gaza on a scale unprecedented since the end of WWII. ‘Where are you Mohammed?’ I muttered to myself while scrolling down my Facebook feed. Since the…

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  • Why abortion alone does not make women free

    Let’s start by recapping how after almost 50 years, abortion once again became a matter of US state law. On 24 June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered its split opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade, a 1973 decision that created a federal right to abortion at 24 weeks. A judicial…

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  • Who’s afraid of the far right?

    Into its 25th year as an online cultural magazine, Eurozine can boast of a longevity unusual for an independent journalistic project of its kind. Founded as a collective of small print periodicals throughout Europe, Eurozine has always been aware of how precarious this specific sector of journalism is. But 25 years testifies not just to longevity. Eurozine can also claim…

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  • Such a pedestrian question | Eurozine

    City air makes one free. It also has dire consequences for our health and can inflict a wide range of diseases, including asthma and lung cancer. In 2019, polluted air led to 175,702 years lived with disability (YLDs) due to chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases in 30 European countries. The fine particulate matter resulted in 238,000 premature deaths. Urban traffic and…

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  • Pledge under a tree | Eurozine

    We Teach Life Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits.Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response.And I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions.But still, he…

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