Saskia Sassen
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MyLatest book "CITIES AT WAR" (Columbia U Press 2020)
MyLatest Award 2020: Geneva Picciotto Prize
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Saskia Sassen Thank you, dear Saskia - my concept owes much to some of your ideas! This piece may be of interest: theelephant.info/features/2020/…
At the end of 2018 Lord Sugar said he would leave the country if Jeremy Corbyn became PM. Tonight the The Times and The Sunday Times and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism say he argued to the taxman be wasn’t resident here under a Tory government, in order to avoid a £186m tax payment. Presumably the BBC Apprentice presenter
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They went from house to house. Burned people alive. Murdered entire families. Children. Babies. We will not be silent. May the memory of the victims of Kibbutz Beeri be a blessing. 📸 almog boker
Our Video of the Week recovers the forgotten history of workers' political schools in Yugoslavia. These institutions played a pivotal role in the country's worker self-management system, impacting over 200,000 people annually. By Aleksandar Matković buff.ly/3FaEyCl
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Here is U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on October 18th vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza. A ‘no’ vote from any one of the 5 permanent members of the Council stops action on any measure put before it.
