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European Civilization
6,000-year-old grave in England reveals oldest known family tree in the world
Using DNA, experts discovered the corpses of 27 family members in a grave approximately 6,000 years old. The tomb was discovered in England, indicating direct descendants of five generations, through a man and four women.
The discovery…
The Helsinki Interfaith Peace Initiative
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Friends who dwell on the earth,
For almost two years now, I have been dean of the new and growing theological school. Our goal is to help believers develop platforms to become public theologians in their particular…
Black Spartacus, Ledgers and Bell Hooks
Imagine the black Spartacus (Hyperallergic)by Sarah E. BondHow could abolitionists explain the Haitian revolution in sympathetic terms to a deeply racist white European and American audience? It suffices to graft its history on…
Monthly review | “A Radical History” of State Formation, Punishment Regimes, and the Landscape of…
The monopoly of punishment:Tales of my ancestors, dispossession andUnited States BuildingThrough Pem Davidson Buck384 pages, $ 23 paper, 978-1-58367-832-9
Reviewed by Amanda J. Reinke
Weaving the accounts of the author's…
Meet Temple’s New Associate Professors in the Department of Africa and African American…
This fall, Temple welcomed four new associate professors to the Department of Africa and African American Studies at the College of Liberal Arts. The department emerged over 40 years ago during the Black Power movement. Black students at…
Robert Farris Thompson, “guerrilla” of African art, dies at 88 years old
He spoke and wrote of African civilizations as infinitely varied ethical, philosophical and aesthetic systems. To capture their complexity and sophistication, he said, a “guerrilla scholarship” was needed that combined art history,…
End of the century of US and EU supremacy: MEP – Interview news
The third international conference on “The Future of Peace and Human Rights in West Asia” was organized online by FODASUN (United Nations Public Relations Foundation for Dialogue and Solidarity) on Thursday, December 9, on the occasion of…
Reviews | Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be a hero of the right
Tucker Carlson has regularly grazed the elite consensus on foreign policy against Putin, including in a heart-wrenching monologue this week, saying the Russian leader has his eyes on Ukraine only because he wants to protect the western…
Planetary limits of land degradation
Healthy soils have a degree of resilience that allows them to maintain their structure and function in the face of repeated disturbances8.9including temperature disturbanceten, compaction11 and copper pollution12. They provide essential…
“We understood Merkel, she understood us”, but the era of ambiguity on
According to the Prime Minister, "the era of ambiguity, stealth politics and drift is over with Merkel". In one of his so-called “Samizdat Letters” Viktor Orbán added: “We…