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ECCO CHI SONO I TERRORISTI CHE COMPIONO ATTENTATI IN RUSSIA PER CONTO DELL’OCCIDENTE (TERZA PARTE)

Macron/Rotschild l’ultimo interprete dei desideri dei massocapitalisti Rete Voltaire “Sotto i nostri occhi” (11/25) Le due anime della Francia di Thierry Meyssan Proseguiamo la pubblicazione a episodi del libro di Thierry Meyssan, Sotto i nostri occhi. In questa puntata la Francia si mostra divisa: il presidente fa il gioco degli anglosassoni, mentre il suo rivale gollista quello del Qatar;…

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Victor Navasky, Who Saved “The Nation,” Tried to Save the World#Victor #Navasky #Saved #Nation #Save #World

Victor Navasky at the Atlantic Monthly State of the Union Dinner in New York City. (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Getty) The first piece Victor Navasky published in The Nation ran under the byline “G. Mennen Williams”—not a pseudonym, but the name of the Michigan governor who had employed the newly minted Yale Law School graduate as a speechwriter. My own introduction to Victor came in 1979, after…

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It might be a strange thing to focus on in a place with so many other amazing sites, but I was immediately drawn to how people here used the human form sometimes thoughtfully, and sometimes without care.

I found there was art and humor to how people used mannequins (either intentional or not) from the ways they were displayed, to how they were transported and discarded.

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https://yabangee.com/turkeys-mistreated-mannequins/

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Zarif Mustafa Pasha Yali, Kanlıca, Turkey,

Credit: Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times

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The Nile. A view of the Nile as seen from Elephantine Island, Aswan. © Tara Todras-Whitehill/VignetteInt

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The top set of photographs, taken by Yasmeen Shaheen, is aimed at portraying the life conditions of two million Egyptians that live in cemeteries. Given the context of their homes, it is fair to say that these people are to some extent alienated from the rest of society. The bottom set by Tara Todras-Whitehill also deals with a forgotten people; the people of Nubia. These people are also subjects of alienations in Egypt; however, their alienation is probably more severe. Their displacement during the construction of the Aswan leads one to think: is the state’s neoliberal approach to economy alienating people for the sake of others that are perceived more Egyptian? Is being Egyptian a spectrum where Nubians are the least Egyptian and people that are forced to live in cemeteries are very slightly further along the spectrum? Both photographers portray this effectively through the documentation and profiling of the two peoples’ daily lifestyles and homes. 

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PA official welcomes resumed US ties, but realizes Palestinians not 1st priority

PA official welcomes resumed US ties, but realizes Palestinians not 1st priority

Ahmad Majdalani tells The Times of Israel that Ramallah is already engaged in unofficial contacts with Washington, which he hopes will soon become official US Vice President Joseph Biden (left) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) A senior official in Ramallah on Wednesday…

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Egypt draws ire with artifacts' move to busy Tahrir Square

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Egypt draws ire with artifacts' move to busy Tahrir Square

– In this Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, a flag is waved by anti-government protesters as they demonstrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s recent decision to transport ancient Pharaonic artifacts to Tahriri Square, the epicenter of Egypt’s so-called Arab Spring uprising in 2011, has fueled fresh controversy over the government’s handling of its archaeological heritage. Archaeologists and heritage experts fear vehicle exhaust will damage the ram-headed sphinxes and an obelisk, currently en route to their new home in Tahrir Square. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)

Egypt’s recent decision to transport ancient Pharaonic artifacts to a traffic circle in the congested heart of Cairo has fueled fresh controversy over the government’s handling of its archaeological heritage.

Cairo has some of the worst air pollution in the world, according to recent studies. Archaeologists and heritage experts fear vehicle exhaust will damage the four ram-headed sphinxes and an obelisk, currently en route to their new home in Tahrir Square.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has weighed in to say that similar obelisks are displayed in Western cities, according to a statement late Monday.

But Dr. Monica Hanna, a heritage expert, said Egyptian artifacts in cities like London, Paris and New York are themselves endangered by being outdoors.

“The sphinxes are made of sandstone, they are part of the dry environment in Luxor, when they would be moved to Tahrir Square with all the pollution, they will deteriorate as a result of the reactions with the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the air,” Hanna told The Associated Press.

She and a member of parliament are part of a lawsuit to block the artifacts’ move, filed recently by a local rights group.

Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the government “will do everything” to protect the artifacts.

Tahrir Square was the epicenter of Egypt’s so-called Arab Spring uprising in 2011. The square also contains the Egyptian Museum.

The decision to move the artifacts as part of a larger renovation of Tahrir Square was taken without debate in parliament. The controversy only surfaced after archaeologists objected.

Since coming to power in 2013, el-Sissi has touted a number of megaprojects aimed at rebuilding and expanding infrastructure. Those include an expansion of the Suez Canal and a new Egyptian museum near the Giza Pyramids.

A centerpiece of the new museum is a towering statue of Ramses II. It once stood in a busy square near Cairo’s main railway station, but was removed in the 1990s due to preservation concerns.

Waziri, the antiquities chief, said the four sphinxes are not part of the famed avenue of sphinxes in the city of Luxor. They were among several located behind the first edifice of the temple of Karnak.

The obelisk was recently moved to Cairo from the San el-Haggar archaeological site in the Nile Delta, the ministry said.

But Hanna, the heritage expert, stressed that the obelisks in Western capitals had been moved during the colonial era. “We really had no say in their shipment.”

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Israeli military project aims to speed up Palestinian-Israeli trade

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WATCH: IDF initiative aims to speed up trade while not compromising on potential security threats

Palestinian businesses in the West Bank rely heavily on trade with major Israeli cities, but suffer from serious delays at security checkpoints. 

A new IDF initiative aims to speed up the process while not compromising on potential security threats.

Where…

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I Took Portraits Of 17 Women Who Had Abortions To Show It Has Many Faces And Many Reasons

A’yen Tran Image credits: Tara Todras-Whitehill A’yen Tran, 25 (at the time the photo was taken), was raised by a single mother in a progressive NYC household. During her teenage years she had a “radical” boyfriend who was emotionally and sexually abusive, and isolated A’yen from her community. She got pregnant, and began waking up […]

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Trump’s blatantly political use of pardons and Medals of Freedom

Trump’s blatantly political use of pardons and Medals of Freedom

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Sheldon Adelson sits with his wife, Miriam Adelson, before a session at the President’s Conference in Jerusalem, May 13, 2008. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP)

President Trump announced the first Medal of Freedom recipients of his presidency this weekend, and just as with his selections for pardons and commutations, politics permeates the list.

Featured are Miriam Adelson, the…

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Dead Sea scroll deciphered to reveal ancient calendar | Books

One of the final documents to be decoded from the records of the biblical-era desert sect has been revealed as a chart of their feast days

More to learn … tourists look at portions of the Dead Sea scrolls on display at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

One of the last remaining Dead Sea scrolls…

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The dining room in the Zarif Mustafa Pasha Yali, Istanbul, Turkey,

Credit...Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times 

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Bakri. Nubian Bakri Gaffar, 75, a survivor of the displacement from the creation of the Aswan high dam, sits inside his house, in the Upper Egypt town of Abu Simbel, where he and his wife now live. © Tara Todras-Whitehill/VignetteInt

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Série fotográfica “I Had An Abortion” dá espaço para mulheres falarem sobre aborto

Desde 2005, a fotojornalista Tara Todras-Whitehill tem fotografado diferentes mulheres com a intenção de dar rostos a um assunto que ainda é tabu em quase todo o mundo: o aborto. O projeto “I Had An Abortion” traz histórias de mulheres que fizeram abortos, a fim de aumentar o diálogo sobre o assunto. Em entrevista ao …

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