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Hope

I telephoned hope yesterday I asked him: can you  extract for us odor  From onion and haddock?  He said : Sure! I said : and can you  Ignite with water a fire?  He said : sure! I said: is it possible to distill form Colocynth the honey? He said : sure!  I said : and is it possible  to put earth  in Saturn's pocket ? He said : yes… sure! everything is possible I said : then our Arabs [Arab leaders] will feel ashamed someday  He said : not in a million years  will ever happen what you say. — the Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar
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UK

While they are talking about how life has got worse since the Arab uprisings,  one of the richest countries in the world is having Unicef feed its hungry children .
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US

It must be clearly established ... that the government of the United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population.     —Che Guevara, from a speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations, 11 December 1964
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Art

By Sameer Khalili, a Syrian from Homs living in the Netherlands. December 2020
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“Normalisation”

 Do not reconcile Related I am with terrorism
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Egypt

Macron, unlike his American or British counterparts, is trying to be consistent. Since he violates “human rights” in France itself, why should he condition co-operation in defence and economic matters on human rights situation in Egypt? How the ruling class and imperialist backers ensure the survival of an authoritarian regime
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Cuba

 From Ishmahil Blagrove diary: Cuba December 2020 Related Internet fuels rate protests
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