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History as a Witness

While Kurds are talking about "betrayal" and "stab in the back", "Within the first two weeks, most of Iraq's cities and provinces  fell to rebel forces. Participants of the uprising were a diverse mix of ethnic, religious and political affiliations, including military mutineers, Shia Arab  Islamists, Kurdish nationalists , and far-left groups." [sectarianism has been going on since the 7th century?] Read here what the American regime's position was  1991 uprisings in Iraq

Capitalism and Climate Change

According to Climate Accountability Institute between 1965 and 2017, "twenty largest investor-owned and state-owned fossil fuel companies produced carbon fuels that emitted 35% of the global total (480 GtCO2e)."  Carbon Majors

Exploitation

More propaganda against "our way of life" and "free market values" 1. How are we in the UK, for example, supposed to afford putting food on the table? 2. Aren't our aid organisations, philanthropists and celebrities helping poor people and our students learning how to empower them? 3. Hasn't this been going on for decades (centuries if we include the colonial era)? Why should we care now? Why should we question  capitalist relations nationally and worlwide? Maybe it is just some comapnies that are not "ethical"?   Exploitation and abuse in UK supermarket supply chains, says Oxfam

Theory as a pastime

“In the fields of technology or medicine, backwardness, dilettantism and obscurantism meet with the contempt they deserve; in the field of sociology, they invariably claim to embody freedom of scientific inquiry. Those for whom theory is merely an intellectual pastime easily move from one revelation to another or, what is more common, content themselves with a hash made of bits and pieces of all revelations. Immeasurably more exa cting, disciplined, and stable is he for whom theory is a guide of action. The drawing-room skeptic may with impunity make fun of medicine. The surgeon, however, cannot function in an atmosphere of scientific hesitation." —L.T. Mentioning the person behind the quote above might provoke prejudice more than thinking.