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Portugal’s Immigration Overhaul Hits South Asian Workers Hard

The possibility of a life-changing “raspberry passport” through agricultural work is fading for many South Asian workers, forcing already vulnerable people into even more precarious and often exploitative situations. When Kamal Bhattarai first arrived in Portugal from Nepal on a tourist visa a decade ago, he hardly knew anyone. With …

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CPJ denounces Israel’s smearing of killed Palestinian journalists with unsubstantiated ‘terrorist’ labels

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israel to stop making unproven claims that journalists slain by its forces are terrorists or engaging in militant activity, and demands international, swift, and independent investigations into these killings. “Even before the start of the Israel-Gaza war, CPJ had documented Israel’s pattern of …

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Le Sommet de Kazan : le point culminant de la présidence russe des BRICS

Aujourd’hui à Kazan commence la 16ème réunion des chefs d’État des BRICS. L’année de la présidence russe dans l’association peut déjà être appelée, contrairement à tous les précédents, une nouvelle étape du développement du club.Qui d’autre sera ? La réunion sous la présidence russe promet d’être la plus représentative de …

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Can the United Nations Be Saved?

The Case for Getting Back to Basics The quest to fix the United Nations is almost as old as the organization itself. Eighty years ago, Allied leaders imagined a postwar order in which the great powers would together safeguard a permanent peace. The Security Council, dominated by its five veto-wielding …

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The Return of Total War

Understanding—and Preparing for—a New Era of Comprehensive Conflict Every age had its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions,” the defense theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the early nineteenth century. There is no doubt that Clausewitz was right. And yet it is surprisingly …

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Théorie de l’arc de crise : géopolitique et géostratégie

Les deux guerres en cours ont des origines différentes et lointaines. Les causes de la guerre russo-ukrainienne, si l’on se limite au contexte régional, remontent aux émeutes de l’Euromaïdan de novembre il y a dix ans, à l’annexion ultérieure de la Crimée par la Russie, aux politiques anti-russophones mises en …

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