Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power, writes Adéwálé Májà-Pearce www.eurozine.com/did-coloniza...

‘Civil society has not yet lost the anthropological battle for the hearts and minds of Russians, particularly when it comes to the young. The state will not stop at what it has achieved so far, but nor will society abandon its fight to protect human dignity.’ @letraslibres.com

‘If recognition is to be more than theatre, it must come as recognition-plus: a UN Security Council resolution mandating time-bound settlement evacuation and land transfers, and robust support for Palestinian institutional renewal under a unified, legitimate leadership.’ @greeneujournal.bsky.social

Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly 20 years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Palestinian terms. By @ytouval.bsky.social via @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/setting-the-...

Education has become a battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’, writes Andrei Kolesnikov @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/intellectual...

No reason to panic: But responses to #Russian drones entering #Polish airspace were costly – both NATO’s air defence systems and civilian reactions to disinformation – says war correspondent calling for greater #military efficiency and improved #CivilDefence. www.eurozine.com/no-reason-to...

Russian drones have no respect for Tusk's concrete hedgehogs, writes @krytykapolityczna.bsky.social, on a lack of civil protection measures in #Poland krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/rosyjsk...

#NewFrenchPM appointed as #FranceProtests: fundamental problem lies in the development of the parties and party elites, writes Gilles Bataillon via Letras Libres www.eurozine.com/a-political-...

‘Everyone thinks it won’t happen to their country. But we thought the same,’ said Denys Kobzin, co-author of Public Interest Journalism Lab study on #militarization and what the rest of Europe could learn from #Ukraine. www.eurozine.com/dont-want-to... #Poland #NATO

“On the foundation of the Soviet summer camps as educational institutions, Russia essentially created a robust incarceration system.” - Iuliia Skubytska for @eurozine.bsky.social

Thanks to @eurozine.bsky.social for reviewing our latest magazine issue which explores how #Trump’s administration is reshaping free expression in the #US and beyond. Read the review⬇️ eurozine.com/liberty-on-the-line/

I wrote for Eurozine on the lingering imperial geographies that define our understandings of Ukraine and eastern Europe.

Censored: female genitalia was erased from NASA’s 1970s image travelling outer space. Will compromised depictions of life on Earth avoid sexist, racist and anthropocentric simplifications by 2036, asks @jessthomson.bsky.social via @newhumanist.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/sexism-in-sp... #feminism

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today in way the region is studied in the West. Ukraine scholar @uilleamblacker.bsky.social pleas for institutional reform: www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

Brazilian verse drama ‘Morte e Vida Severina’ accompanies migrants to Portugal: “when I crossed the Atlantic, I symbolically found myself facing a process of death & life. I believe that every immigrant experiences a rebirth,” writes Dan Alves, Gerador. www.eurozine.com/neither-here...

How book bans are targeting independent thought in the US; why Trump’s assault on education imitates Erdoğan’s; what the closure of Radio Free Asia means for the region’s information space; and how liberals can learn from Soviet dissidents @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/liberty-on-t...

France risks becoming ungovernable. Many blame the situation on Macron’s autocratic style. But the problem lies deeper, in the development of the parties and party elites. By Gilles Bataillon via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/a-political-...

Ex-Soviet youth pioneer camps – once heavily supervised yet remembered surprisingly positively – have become sites of trauma, where #Ukrainian children are deported en masse, incarcerated and re-educated, writes Iuliia Skubytska via London Ukrainian Review & @iwm.at www.eurozine.com/instrumental...

#ADHD diagnosis: relief rather than label, especially for #neurodivergent women, whose masking can lead to poor mental health, substance abuse & hyper-sexuality, writes Sonia Quinche via Vox Feminae. eurozine.com/i-just-want-...

Clear analysis of what lies behind Trump’s ‘peace talks’ with Putin and top European leaders rallying to Zelensky’s side.

Cancel culture: justice or silencing? To some, it’s accountability in action; to others, a threat to free expression. Behind the buzzword lies a battleground of values, identity & power. Dive into the debate and uncover what cancel culture really says about us today. www.eurozine.com/nobody-cance...

When Belarusian society rose up five years ago, the century-old hopes of the national liberation movement seemed close to realization. What remains of those hopes today? By Uladzimir Liankievič in collaboration with @dekoder.org www.eurozine.com/my-testament/

#Murmurations are more than a hypnotic sight. Chemist Joakim Stenhammer via Glänta on intriguing parallels between decentralized organization in #nature and human brain activity. www.eurozine.com/on-starlings...

Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish students are directly affected, is telling, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook: Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

The Courts have acquiesced, the populace is compliant and the Democratic Party is splintered. Without any way to make their opposition felt, Trump opponents’ only hope is that the economy will cause MAGA voters to rethink www.eurozine.com/the-unstoppa...

A century on from partition, internal colonialism continues to characterize relations between England and Northern Ireland, writes @katyhayward.bsky.social via @iwm.at www.eurozine.com/eternal-twil...

Standard Time talks about religion and secularism of today’s present society: why France took secularism a bit too far and how religious texts can also be misused to excuse violence. www.eurozine.com/religion-and...

Fiscal conservatism, an uncooperative legislature, and a political environment saturated by disinformation have undermined Lula 3.0. The only reason the damage isn’t greater is because the post-Bolsonaro right is in disorder

Elected in 2022 on a wave of popular hope, Colombia’s leftwing leader Gustavo Petro has failed to negotiate peace with the country’s armed groups and embarked on a ruinous tariff war with Donald Trump.

The president who preached revolution: A portrait of Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s quixotic leftwing leader, by Iván Garzón Vallejo via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/the-presiden...

Loneliness is a growing health crisis, and gender norms make men more vulnerable to digitized isolation.

While Lula has managed to stabilize the Brazilian economy and restore some key social programs, these gains remain fragile, writes @nararoberta.bsky.social via @publicseminar.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/lula-3-0-and...

Why are men so much more vulnerable to loneliness than just a few decades ago? Psychologists discuss:

When little remains from engineered flooding – displacing communities, eradicating landmarks of family histories – #featurefilms raise pertinent questions about #industrialization, #minorities, and matriarchy versus youthful masculinity, writes Mererid Puw Davies www.eurozine.com/writing-on-t...

Revanchist #Russian politicians and commentators lament former Soviet Union’s disintegration. Piecing together documents from 1990s reveals how the way to Putin’s colonialist drive disguised as integration was paved, writes Martin Malek via IWM.at www.eurozine.com/russias-drea...

Forget aliens. #Astrobiologists need first establish what constitutes #LifeOnEarth. Should existing definitions stretch to ‘degrees of life’ like decomposition and #viruses, asks David Dunér via Glänta. www.eurozine.com/extraterrest...

A constrained mother tongue is resilient in recalled memory. Those who no longer speak #Belarusian tenderly piece together often painful cultural threads, processing trauma to keep their ‘mova’ alive. Olga Bubich via IWM.at www.eurozine.com/the-language...

Thirty years on from the Srebrenica massacre, how The Netherlands has failed to acknowledge the ‘moral truth’ of the victims. Also: perspectives on the fascism debate; and why society needs a conversation about dying www.eurozine.com/moral-truth/

In failing to mediate in the civil wars in the Arab World, the international community carries responsibility for the sense of impotence felt in societies in which violence dominated everything but resolved nothing. By Hamit Bozarslan in Esprit @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-arab-apo...

Europe is often praised for having one of the most advanced railway networks in the world. But these systems are increasingly falling short of meeting the public’s evolving needs. With @jonworth.eu, Bojan Pajtić, Maja Vujovic and Adam Something: www.eurozine.com/europes-rail...

The outbreak of the Lebanese civil war fifty years ago inaugurated an era of nation-state collapse in the Arab world. Hamit Bozarslan on the ‘Arab Apocalypse’, via Esprit @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-arab-apo...

‘Today, I tend to think that it’s a mistake to place hope and despair at opposite poles, as we usually do. Hope lies beyond despair, but in the same direction, so that you can’t reach hope without going through despair and carrying it with you.’ www.eurozine.com/the-art-of-d...

The nexus of radical inequality, social atomization and male victimhood has been exploited before. But why now, on such a scale? By @davidwengrow.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

To understand the appeal of the far right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship, writes @davidwengrow.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

‘The Syrian tragedy cannot be summed up simply as the murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings; it also involved the denial of any meaning to the extreme suffering of the Syrian people.’ Yassin al-Haj Saleh in interview with Esprit www.eurozine.com/the-art-of-d...

Could meaningfully #decolonizing #Ukraine lie with other formerly colonized communities, asks Lia Dostlieva via Ukrainian Institute & IWM.at, critical of #cultural humanitarian aid diminishing creative work to ethnic kitsch. www.eurozine.com/not-epistemi...

Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a benchmark of societal acceptance? Diana Firkelj & Dorotea Kosir via Vox Feminae investigates the history of #asexuality and #aromanticism www.eurozine.com/a-at-the-end...

The Serbian student movement symbolizes a generational shift and national renewal. For the first time in years, people are seeing a future for themselves and their children. By Branka Ćurčić www.eurozine.com/serbias-pres...

Austria and Germany are among the greatest meat-eaters, yet veganism is rising, especially among the young. How does such a shift occur? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_I...