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The strength of the lowly: the Theology of Liberation

Leonardo Boff* Whenever a World Social Forum is celebrated, a World Forum of the Theology of Liberation is also celebrated three days earlier. More than two thousand persons who work in this type of theology from every Continent participated: from South Korea, several African…

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Why a rush to elections would only hurt Zimbabwe

By Basildon Peta* – The Guardian Mugabe is gone but the Mugabe state lives on. The early poll British ministers and others are demanding would strengthen Zanu PF’s stranglehold on power To fully understand the euphoria that greeted the news on Tuesday night that Robert Mugabe…

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Mohammad bin Salman and the new balance of power

By SPENGLER      /   Asia Times The Crown Prince has set off a complex chain reaction of political moves that affect the region’s political and economic stability Morbid curiosity draw attention to the real-life Game of Thrones now playing out in Saudi Arabia, but the stories of…

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E-Com at MC11 is effort to hijack basic internet governance issues

By Chakravarthi Raghavan* – SUNS Geneva, 21 Nov – As issues relating to the monopolistic/oligopolistic control over information and data by the Silicon Valley technology giants and their platforms are beginning to attract adverse public and political attention around the world…

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Donald Trump’s FCC is a Clear and Present Danger to Democracy

By John Nichols* – The Nation It has rewritten media-ownership rules to benefit giant corporations, including the pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcasting. Eighty years ago, the dawn of the modern communications age coincided with the rise of authoritarian leaders who controlled and…

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Robert Mugabe Resigns as Zimbabwe’s President, Ending 37-Year Rule

By NORIMITSU ONISHI and JEFFREY MOYONOV – The New York Times HARARE, Zimbabwe — Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, resigned as president on Tuesday shortly after lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against him, according to the speaker of…

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Suu Kyi takes a populist, paranoid turn

By DAVID SCOTT MATHIESON* – Asia Times Myanmar de facto leader conflated illegal migration with terrorism in a keynote speech, adding her voice to the Islamophobia that has justified persecution of the Rohingya YANGON, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 . Myanmar’s increasingly…

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Trump may be turning his back on the world, but America isn’t

BY ISHAAN THAROOR – The Washington Post Last week in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, the most unwelcome attendees at a U.n. summit on climate policy may have been the members of the delegation representing the Trump administration. President Trump, after all, made a…

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Journalism and algorithmic accountability

Panneerselvan – The Hindu A collective effort is needed to retrieve the information space For the last couple of years, Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist and author of the bookWeapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy , has been speaking…

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Zimbabwe – a military coup is no promise of political stability

Analysis, MIKAELA NHONDO ERSKOG –  The Daily Maverick, Johannesburg Bulking military tanks and armed troops have halted the usual blustering traffic and street vending activities down Samora Machel Avenue in central Harare. Leaders of the ruling party have reportedly been…