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The Narrow Window: Gaza’s Ceasefire, Medicine, and the Race Between Conscience and Neglect
——- Dedicated to you – and to every doctor who kept working when the lights went out. ——- I. The Narrow Window The guns have quieted, but Gaza is not at peace. What we call a ceasefire, those who live beneath it call a pause in exhaustion. You can still smell the smoke. Generators hum… Keep reading →
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The Russian Rouble Crisis And Its Dangers
->>> What kind of genuine agreement is reasonable, within the context of an escalating economic crisis in Russia, and to support the so important international coöperation between superpowers and other countries? – As the Russian rouble crisis may have a global fallout, affecting potentially the word’s financial markets, just a few words about this…
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Sydney Siege 2014: A serious warning for better terror prevention.
“Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.” —UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 13 June 2007 >>>Terror prevention is…
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Sydney Siege 2014
Terror prevention is not merely a distant goal that we search for, but a process through which we arrive at that goal, .. a learning experience, and a journey, which we need to travel, – as due to the increasing dangers we face – as a country with other countries…And to travel this, – we…
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To Cheapen The Civil Rights Of Any Group Of Citizens May Cheapen The Lives Of All Citizens..
“…………..each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation” – “If we believe that we, as Americans, are bound together by a common concern for each other, then an urgent national priority is upon us. We…
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WE have a DREAM
“No matter what people tell, – your words and ideas can change the world.” -Robin Williams – -> “It is never my custom to use words lightly.. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are…
We dream of things that never were and say: "Why not?" 