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Call Me Freedom
What does freedom mean to you? Is it staying up all night and sleeping in? Having no one there to dictate how you spend your time or make the choices you do… Is it deciding that you will have that mimosa before noon, or choosing between the red or blue top without your partner breathing down your neck? Is it the luxury of being able to take a sick day when you need it? Does it arrive each time you head to the polling station and vote for what you want to see in the world? Is it buying enough food for the month and still being able to pay the bills? Perhaps freedom is having no bills! Perhaps it is being able to walk down the street where you live and feel safe.
By Outrageous Optimism 4 years ago in The Swamp
Will NATO borders extend to Ceuta and Melilla?
It is not new for the idea to be raised, but at a time when Putin is still determined to prevent NATO from expanding further east of Europe, who do you think can stand in the way of the alliance if it wants to expand from the other side, that is, to the southern borders of the continent? This may not seem possible or expected right now. The Ukrainian fire has not yet been extinguished, and no one can say for sure where it will spread, or whether its fire will recede quickly, or not?
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in The Swamp
When some Arabs support the invasion of Ukraine
This happened in the summer of 1990. Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait at the dawn of August 2, and President Saddam Hussein made a series of statements stressing the centrality of the Palestinian cause, in a strong criticism of the world's handling of it other than what it does with its invasion of its southern neighbor.
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in The Swamp
The Palestinian Prisoner on International Women's Day
Yesterday, humanity celebrated International Women’s Day, which falls on the eighth of March, and the United Nations chose to hold this year’s celebrations under the slogan “Gender Equality for a Sustainable Tomorrow.” It is clear that this choice emphasizes a first aspect related to the consolidation of women’s rights compared to men. And a second aspect stresses the social role of women in general and in sustainable development processes in particular.
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in The Swamp
Wrecked Maps… Histories Wildfire
A person begins writing the stages of history when he finishes drawing the borders of geography, which are often drawn with blood, and where the map ends, history begins, and at the point where the friction of space and time erupts, war breaks out, and from the wreckage of maps and the wreckage of dates, man rebuilds his world, and so it was.
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in The Swamp
War lessons for East and West
The Russian war on Ukraine is not over yet, and it may last a long time. It is difficult to predict the outcome of this conflict and its effects on the world, but we can draw some lessons from the course of events. What concerns me here, is what is currently happening with the collective awareness of peoples and governments. What was accepted on the 23rd of last February was shattered on the rock of the Russian attack on the 24th of the same month.
By Abd elrhmen4 years ago in The Swamp
A fierce war in Ukraine... and we are still waiting for relief
More than three weeks have passed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the war operations are still going on, rather their pace is increasing amid air and ground bombardments that almost do not stand in front of anything and do not know relentlessness, and the witness is that there is an escalation in the desire for destruction, to break the Ukrainian will and deliver a message that Russia And Putin in particular, to be more precise, will not be stopped by any humanitarian considerations.
By Abd elrhmen4 years ago in The Swamp
Ukraine-Russia
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for direct discussions with his Russian partner, Vladimir Putin, who has kept on getting calls from world pioneers asking him to consider a truce. The European Union has additionally encouraged China to step in as a middle person.
By amouna mona4 years ago in The Swamp
I'm Worried About Nuclear War With Russia
In grammar school in the 1950s, we faced the ever-present threat of nuclear war with Russia. In preparation for annihilation, we had drills every Tuesday morning at 10:30, when the air-raid sirens were tested. The good nuns instructed us to get underneath our desks and put our heads between our knees. They didn’t tell us that the only possible useful purpose of this maneuver would be to kiss our asses goodbye.
By George Ochsenfeld4 years ago in The Swamp
The breakup: Russia and Ukraine after the fall of the u. S. A
Thirty years in the past, as the international locations of the previous soviet union declared their independence, every person breathed a sigh of relief that the empire disappeared so gently. Other than an uncongenial irredentist warfare among armenia and azerbaijan over the ethnic armenian exclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, there was little or no violence. But progressively, almost imperceptibly, war began performing at the rims of the former america. Advertisement in moldova, russian troops supported a small separatist motion of russian-speakers that in the end fashioned the tiny breakaway republic of transnistria. In georgia, the independent location of abkhazia, additionally supported through russian arms, fought a quick warfare with the primary government in tbilisi, as did south ossetia. Chechnya, a russian republic that had fiercely resisted the encroachment of the empire in the course of the nineteenth century, and which suffered extraordinarily below soviet rule, declared its very own wish for independence, and was ground down in no longer one but two brutal wars. Tajikistan persisted a civil struggle, in part a fallout from the civil struggle raging in afghanistan, with which it shared a border. And on and on. In 2007, russia released a cyber-assault in opposition to estonia, and in 2008, it responded to an strive through georgia to retake south ossetia with a massive counter-offensive. Notwithstanding all this, it turned into nonetheless common for humans to say that the dissolution of the soviet union were miraculously peaceful. And then got here ukraine. Within the laboratory of state-building that was the former empire, ukraine stood out. A number of the soviet former republics had longstanding political traditions and wonderful linguistic, spiritual and cultural practices; others less so. The baltic states had each been impartial for two many years among the world wars. Most of the other republics had had, at best, a quick test with independence within the immediately wake of the crumble of tsarism in 1917. To complicate subjects, most of the newfound countries had significant russian-talking populations who have been both tired of or actively adversarial towards their new countrywide tasks. Ukraine turned into specific on these types of fronts. Even though it, too, had most effective existed as an unbiased country nowa days for some short years, it had a effective nationalist motion, a colourful literary canon, and a robust memory of its independent vicinity in the records of europe before peter the high-quality. It changed into very huge – the second-biggest u . S . A . In europe after russia.
By A.k news4 years ago in The Swamp
New Variant of Covid-19
Omicron COVID-19 Variant: You might be inquiring as to why the new strain appears to be a Marvel supervillain and, no, it doesn't have anything to do with its phenomenal powers. The World Health Organization just decided to name gigantic varieties after Greek letters as a strategy for avoiding chaos, hinder detachment and disgrace, and smooth out open talk, as shown by the New York Times.
By James Robert4 years ago in The Swamp
Putin's War Is Not Now With Ukraine, But With Each Of Us
Faced with the stupid and bloody aggression carried out by Putin on Ukraine, Europe is today similar to the multitude of Greek cities of the ancient world, which only the invasion of the colossal Persian army could endow with the consciousness of their unity of values and ideals, of the thought that they formed a single world. A disproportionate and menacing force, apparently invincible, was only able to unite Athens and Sparta, terrible rivals, to bring them under a single command, with the same will to fight for freedom. Since then, and countless times over the centuries, the war between servitude and freedom has been repeated in different worlds, as the eternal archetype of the human condition. Because it is not primarily a war with armies on the battlefield, but an eternal inner conflict, in each of us.
By MGS4 years ago in The Swamp