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Laura Cesaretti
@laucesaretti
Researcher in Afg till 2020, then student of knowledge in Yemen. Previously TK, LBN & Pak. بنت الروم MA IntPolitics
@CityUniLondon
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@SapienzaRoma
haidaraalfaruqia.comJoined February 2013
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I am taking a break from social media, news (and work). For those interested I pin here my latest, written to bear witness of a world that exists beyond the modern buzz, and to celebrate seekers of all kinds. و لا تشاهد الأنوار إلا بالنور
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That time I studied in a madrassa in Yemen
It is said to that live in the Yemeni town of Tarim, you need only three qualities: ‘sabr’ - perseverance - ‘adab’, or good manners, and positive thinking. And as a student in a madrassa there I was...
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Carol Rosenberg
@carolrosenberg
Twenty-one years ago today the Bush administration opened the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Thirty-five men remain there. We caught up with two former prisoners whose Supreme Court cases reshaped the legal landscape of the war on terrorism.
nytimes.com
They Won Guantánamo’s Supreme Court Cases. Where Are They Now?
The three former Guantánamo prisoners who defeated George W. Bush at the Supreme Court in landmark cases are ensconced in family life. We caught up with two of them. One is a home-heating serviceman...
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Sophia Jones
@Sophia_MJones
A year ago, I set out to investigate a series of 30-year-old war crimes with the remarkable
@AhNidzara
and
@MMPantovic
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investigation.rollingstone.com
The DJ and the War Crimes
Thirty years after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous Arkan’s Tigers have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes.
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Winter Oak
@WinterOakPress
Would any of us want to live in a world without mothers? The eugenicists behind test-tube babies and surrogate motherhood now have their sights on genetic engineering and artificial wombs which would cut women out of the reproductive process.
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The Acorn – 79
Number 79 In this issue: A world without mothers? The Voice of the System Maasai warriors defend their land The wild spirit of freedom Herbert Read: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. A wo…
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Laura Cesaretti
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Some of the sharpest minds I met are niqabis, whose intellect sophistication clashes with the stereotype that wants Muslim/niqabi women as simple, illiterate and incapable of their own thoughts. Once again, it is their struggle that remain unheard.
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Instead of finally taking their own place in society, they are now relegated to home, jobless, forced to beg for help from those very people and organizations they have despised and fiercely rejected with so many sacrifices.
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These are the Afghan women who already wore niqab, got an education in an Islamic environment, and refused to participate in public office and Ngos saga - despite the high pay - to maintain decency and avoid unhealthy and corrupt environments ..
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Taliban's ban is not connected either to religion or culture, it is just power, repeated again in its senseless circle of stupidity and violence. Pity the watan, inundated again by tears of her brightest daughters and sons.
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The understanding, and respect for the sacrifices made by choosing books over money, in a modern world that needs only notionism in the function of successful jobs. The high respect reserved to those women who made this difficult choice.
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The reverence that Afghans have for education is something incredibly romantic and utterly rare elsewhere. The care of books, and all stationary necessary to take notes. The silence a big family can offer to those who are studying…
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It makes you wonder how we can even share the same air of people that perpetuate these policies. A much needed, incredible work, with so much to unpack and reflect on inside each word and witness. 🙏
@LynzyBilling
and all involved,🌹 to all the unknown true heroes we lost.
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jeremy scahill
@jeremyscahill
This is a phenomenal, gut-wrenching, extraordinary work of journalism by @LynzyBilling for @propublica. The Night Raids propublica.org/article/afghan
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Joel Gunter
@joelmgunter
Earlier this year,
@bbcpanorama
revealed a pattern of suspicious killing by the SAS in Afghanistan. For the past few months, me and 
@hannahogrady
have been digging into one operation, on which special forces killed two parents and shot their infant boys
bbc.co.uk
How a British special forces raid went wrong, and a young family paid the price
Special forces killed two Afghan parents and shot their two boys. No one was held accountable.
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Practical arguments, led by reason. Let's not forget that in #Afg - as in Somalia & other places before - famine and economic crisis is man-made, in the vest of the very same relief organizations that now act as if giving is an act of charity, not a duty due to the mess created.
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Foreign Affairs
@ForeignAffairs
For Afghanistan to emerge from crisis, its economy needs to grow—and this will require Western countries to engage with the Taliban rather than isolate it further, write @smithkabul and @delaneysimon. trib.al/dGV2LIT
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One - despite all criticisms - remains an intellectual, the other nothing more than a banal character in a mediocre movie. The usual - and only - common ground is the role of US in their leadership as opportunistic, and not so refined, deus ex machina.
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“gestation doesn’t just create a baby, it creates a mother”
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Mary Harrington
@moveincircles
With human life cheapened by mass-manufacture, motherless babies might be produced for lab experiments or the transplant industry, raised as military cannon-fodder, or simply grown as a slave class. Me at @unherd on what ectogenesis would really mean unherd.com/thepost/podbab
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Sameer Yasir
@sameeryasir
On 76th day of his long march north through the entire length of India, Rahul Gandhi walked into a textile-making town in the middle of this vast country, his face and hair covered in dust. I walked with him for about 13 miles that day. Here is the story.
nytimes.com
Why Is This Man With the Famous Name Walking 2,000 Miles Across India?
Rahul Gandhi is hoping to pull his once-mighty party out of the political wilderness. The future of India as a multiparty democracy may be on the line.
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Kawun Kakar
@KawunK
Dr #Nakamura brought life to baren lands & exemplified the changing power of selfless & tireless efforts, free of judgement. He empowered others & communities to lift themselves despite huge obstacles. In his memory, we need to recognize & honor those who follow his path.
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She is the voice of reason in a totally unreasonable liberal world. A must read 👇🏼 - and looking forward for the book!
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Mary Harrington
@moveincircles
For every rich boomer demanding euthanasia because “everyone wants choice” there will be many more poor, sad, or sick people cheaply culled by healthcare services struggling with the end of growth. Austerity euthanasia, on my Substack reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/austerity-eu
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Jamil Jan Kochai
@JamilJanKochai
When you read the headline "American soldier abducts baby from Afghan family", you can't actually imagine how much worse the whole story gets. Joshua Mast is actively refusing to return an Afghan baby to her loving family who desperately want her back.
nytimes.com
‘How Did This Man Think He Had the Right to Adopt This Baby?’
Army Rangers killed her parents. A Marine is raising her in America. But her Afghan family says she was taken under false pretenses.
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Laura Cesaretti
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I thought Guantanamo was an exceptionalistic failure of human rights but if you dig enough you will understand US barbarism is extended to all, & it is clearly evident from their prison system. “In the Belly of the Beast” is an old but gold book about it
npr.org
Alabama is pausing executions after a 3rd failed lethal injection
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.
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