Category: Media
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The Syrian women and girls sold into sexual slavery in Lebanon We meet women who are Lebanese, East Africans and a lot of Syrians. They all want to leave the job, but the only ones I have seen leaving a trafficker was because they were handed to another [trafficker]. SyrianWar#SexTrade#WomensRights Bernie Sanders isn’t a radical…
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In Remembrance
Black History Month 2020, would have marked Trayvon Martin’s 25th birthday. He was born on February 5th, 1995. Tragically, his life was cut short at the tender age of seventeen. When a bigoted neighborhood watch patrolman named George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon for just existing. Trayvon lost his life eight years ago. This happened…
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#NotMeUs: On Why I’m Voting for Sanders
Feel the Bern The most progressive candidate in the race for the Democratic Presidential nominee is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. His platforms are laid out brilliantly on his election campaign website. One of his premiere campaign proposals is to expand Medicare for all Americans, policies that, if enacted, would change the lives of countless people…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Unlike most millennials, Norway’s are rich High welfare payments and heavily subsidised health care also help when it comes to pitting Norwegian millennials’ prospects against those elsewhere in Europe. Unemployment benefits are generous: allowing many people to claim around 60% of their previous salary for two years, while they are looking for new work.…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Anthony Clark
Welcome to the Evolving Folks Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week, we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to a fellow Chicago native, teacher, Air Force…
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Waging Peace
The Military-Industrial Complex “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Two newlywed Iranian Canadian couples among those killed in crash The couple, Siavash Ghafouri-Azar and Sara Mamani, was one of at least two pairs of newlyweds on board a Ukraine International Airlines jetliner when it went down shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s international airport early Wednesday, killing all 167 passengers and nine crew members.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Meet the Intellectual Founder of Brazil’s Far Right It was not the first time that Bolsonaro had publicly honored Olavo. In his first speech to the nation after his election, the former army captain placed four books on his desk: the Bible, Brazil’s constitution, Winston Churchill’s Memoirs of the Second World War, and a book by…
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A Decade of Reflection
Auld Lang Syne Four short years ago, I started the Evolving Man Project. To my delight and surprise, it’s grown tremendously since I published my first ever blog post. The year two thousand and nineteen has been our best year. I look forward to what the new year and decade will bring us. As I…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Denmark’s Shameful Ghetto Plan The ghetto plan also functions as a tool to advance a process of undermining public housing and “improving the business climate” for private landlords. The blatant racism of the ghetto plan is obfuscating the parallel, if not overriding, function of the legislation — namely to privatize public housing in a country…
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