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4 maps that help you understand what’s going on in Ukraine – Magic Mistura を

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La guerra che verrà

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Bertolt Brecht, La guerra che verrà

La guerra che verrà
non è la prima. Prima
ci sono state altre guerre.
Alla fine dell’ultima
c’erano vincitori e vinti.
Fra i vinti la povera gente
faceva la fame. Fra i vincitori
faceva la fame la povera gente egualmente.

Bertolt Brecht, Der Krieg, der kommen wird

Der Krieg, der kommen wird
Ist nicht der erste. Vor ihm
Waren andere Kriege.
Als der letzte vorüber war
Gab es Sieger und Besiegte.
Bei den Besiegten das niedere Volk
Hungerte. Bei den Siegern
Hungerte das niedere Volk auch.

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Mr. Moore|آقای مور

A Voice from Iran

“65th story”

A story by Laleh Chini:

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I moved to the USA when I was in late 16. The only English I knew was “hello” and “how are you?”

In September 1986 I attended Grade 12 in George Washington High School at Charleston, West Virginia. Not knowing enough English to attend high school was a hard challenge.

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For every single subject that I needed to complete to be able to graduate, I had to work triple hard. I had to find every single word in the dictionary to understand every subject.

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But it was a great achievement for me and I was very excited and positive about it. Months passed and I was getting better in English and was speaking slowly but more smooth. My English teacher was very kind and patient with me, she talked slowly and clearly to make sure I understood. My Algebra teacher loved me because…

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Pronouns by Suzanne Craig-Whytock + Pod 22: Henna Artist’s Alka Joshi 

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Photo of author/blogger Suzanne Craig-Whytock.
Photo of author/blogger Suzanne Craig-Whytock.

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Click H-E-R-E for my podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s audio show is the audio version of “My Wedding Henna + The Henna Artist’s Bighearted Alka Joshi on Saris” that you can read the text version of H-E-R-E.

At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page, you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotifyand Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts and Breaker, to Pocket Casts and RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher, plus an RSS feed. The full list of 50+ places is H-E-R-E.

Language… labeling… gender… pronouns… Writers can be especially picky about language (info on my novels-in-progress). Language is far more than vocabulary and grammar. It’s about how people think.

Civil rights movements in the United States really took flight in the 60s and 70s — and language played a major…

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Unexpected reaction in Prague after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine · Global Voices – President Zeman

I love Russian culture and I value the Russian victims of World War Two, but this does not mean that I will agree with the invasion of a foreign army on the territory of a sovereign state. Russia has thus committed a crime against peace.

A few days ago, I said that the Russians are not crazy and will not attack Ukraine. I admit I was wrong.

Source: Unexpected reaction in Prague after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine · Global Voices

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Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Estamos rotos. Somos, parece, seres humanos mutilados e incompletos, ambiciosos e intoxicados de estulticia, odio y violencia, incapaces de amarnos, plantar árboles, cultivar flores y coexistir, en armonía y en equilibrio, entre nosotros y con la naturaleza; pero sí, en cambio, con la terrible capacidad de destruirnos y arrasar con la vida en cualquiera de sus expresiones.

Hoy miro, con tristeza e impotencia, el escenario humano. Amplios porcentajes de personas, a nivel global, permanecen distraídas y enajenadas con los mundos virtuales que les ofrecen los aparatos digitales, al mismo tiempo que rivalizan unos con otros, compiten estúpidamente en una carrera sin proyecto ni sentido, se odian por sus diferencias o por lo que algunos poseen, participan en el terrible juego de los opuestos y se destruyen a sí mismos.

Y mientras la gente permanece atenta a sus memes, a…

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