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Radical extremism

Armed conflicts

UN warns of ‘mass deaths’ in Myanmar after 100,000 flee fighting

By Al Jazeera UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food and water. A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar after “brutal, indiscriminate…

Human Rights

The Lethal Nexus: Mass Shootings and Domestic Violence

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan(*)  – Democracy Now! You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in the U.S. this year.

History

Poland’s Current Memory Politics Are Rewriting History

By Mikhal Dekel* – Boston Review  Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews. By This year, for the first time in history, an individual used Poland’s “Holocaust Law” to sue in a civil court.

Armed conflicts

How Israel Weaponizes International Law

By Maryam Jamshidi* – Boston Review The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar Naz…

Democracy

The Party of White Grievance Has Never Cared About Democracy

By Steve Phillips* – The Nation From the Democrats of the Civil War era to the Republicans of the Trump years, the white party has always posed the greatest threat to our political system Alarm bells are ringing about the dangerous implications of the behavior of the Republican…