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Why We Need to Imagine Again: Kohei Saito and the Chaos We’re Living Through

It is interesting that we have built a system where your retirement fund, your savings, your rent, are all basically chips on a casino table. And somehow, we have convinced ourselves that is okay. That it is okay for someone like Trump to have this much power over everyone’s future. This made me think of a book that I read last year by the Japanese Philosopher Kohei Saito, by the name Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, and Marx in the Anthropocene.

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From Ceasefire to Catastrophe: The Politics behind Israel’s war on Gaza

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that was signed in January has collapsed. Since the collapse in March, Israel has restarted its devastating bombing campaigns in Gaza that indiscriminately target civilians by bombing schools, hospitals and even refugee tents. In just a couple of days, over 700 civilians have been killed with even more injured, a number that will only increase over time.

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Pax et calculis

or a little essay about the historical role of biased mediators and its consequences.
In reality, mediators often arrive at the table with quiet allegiances, hidden stakes, and unspoken objectives. Some favour a side out of ideological kinship, others because their fortunes are entangled in the outcome