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How Capitalism Conquered the World
Capitalism is the water we swim in. It defines, in some way, almost every part of our lives. Swimming in it has become so second nature, so pervasive, so ubiquitous that we forget that it has a history and that anything that has a history is made by us as humans. Capitalism is an object.…
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The Origins of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
The difficulty with the conflict between Israel and Palestine is that it has so many components. Immigration, national identity, empires and colonialism, democracy, religion and modernisation, terrorism, victimisation and persecution, war. Even when focusing on the simplest building blocks of its very beginnings, we can see how more than anything, subtle emphases – differences between…