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Laleh Khalili London Review of Books
Who owns the Arctic?

The Haymarket Affair in Three Monuments

Peter Cole Long Haul Magazine
The Haymarket Martyrs got a monument of their own in the cemetery where they rest, initiated and funded by working-class people—not “city fathers.

Israel Just Quadrupled Its PR Budget to $730M

Asaf Elia-Shalev Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Experts say it won’t work. Spending on image should be “like investing in jets, bombs and missile interceptors,” Israel’s foreign minister says.

“They Died With Their Fists Raised.”

Vangelis Panagiotara and Boris Kanzleiter in conversation with Menelaos Charalambidis Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
On May 1 1944, Wehrmacht soldiers shot 200 communists in Athens. Recently photographs of the massacre surfaced online, reopening old wounds.

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10 Big Lessons on Ending the Fossil Fuel Era

Jonathan Watts and Fiona Harvey The Guardian
Hope is contagious and science is king: At world-first Santa Marta climate meeting, delegates say it was ‘euphoric’ to finally be focusing on concrete solutions
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