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Amazigh spark: Identity and Belonging

The notion of identity evolves over time, according to the experiences and groups to which one belongs. It is made up of both what the individual creates and what others attribute. The Punic, Vandal, Byzantine, Arab, Turkish, and then French…

Calm down, calm down, don’t let’s not get carried away

In difficult situations, humour is a good medicine that helps to reflect and put things in the right perspective. The popular Mexican series, El Chapulín Colorado, in which the superhero plays a grasshopper with humour and childlike innocence. Calma, calma,…

Sighted people are necessary for blind people

In the public talk given by Silo on May 4, 1969, in minute 5:00 he said: “There is another kind of suffering that does not depend on the illness of your body, but derives from it, if you are handicapped,…

On the occasion of World Book Day

“Books are among the most extraordinary objects that exist, and this day is dedicated to them. A book, whatever its format, is an essential means of education and an essential source of knowledge.It is with books that we learn to…

No to NATO: Protests against US-led military coalition held across Sweden

Thousands of people have held protests across Sweden to voice their anger at the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the country’s NATO membership bid. While holding placards and banners that read, “No to NATO”, and “NATO’s war will get…

George Balarezo: the intrepid global citizen and author of “UNHiNGED in ETHiOPiA: Two Thousand Kilometers of Hell and Heaven on a Bicycle” (Part 1)

Before anything else, who is the author of this book, George Balarezo? Born in the USA, George Balarezo, known as the intrepid global citizen, is an expat who has been living in South Korea for the last 15 years.  It…

El Niño Threatens Unparalleled Heatwaves

Can the world handle a climate that exceeds the far-reaching excesses of 2022 when the entire world turned upside down with unprecedented flooding, fires, and drought? NOAA and climate researchers in Germany and China believe an El Niño, starting in…

BAN Toxics celebrates Earth Day, calls to invest in responsible production and consumption

“As the increasing use of chemicals becomes indispensable, so do the risks associated with human health and the environment. The shift from highly industrialized to developing countries of chemicals production, use, and disposal is concerning while Asia also produces half…

I am a Leaf

Earth Day poem #2     Before the old streetsweeper comes I take a lingering look at the leaves now burnt brown crusty and curled on their new concrete bed down their original home still standing up to the clearing…

Flower-picking

Earth Day poem #1     This morning, I picked flowers on the wayside as the sun tarried with its light, pinched off a stem with orange blooms just dotting palm-sized leaves, then a solitary hibiscus queenly in yellow and…

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