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Egypt and Ethiopia: War Over Water?

 Egypt’s Sisis threatens ‘instability that no one can imagine’ Related

Institutional Racism in UK

“ The report minimises and at times denies the existence of institutional racism in Britain, despite the fact that, as the government now acknowledges, several witnesses  gave detailed evidence  of the forms of institutional and structural racism that they feel do operate within the UK. It was produced by a commission led by figures who had rejected the concept of institutional racism years before they began work. Arguably it has achieved exactly what the government wanted, adding credence to the false binary that underpins  their culture war agenda : that the nation faces a choice between addressing racial inequalities or class disadvantage.” A poisonous patronising report

Football: Norway-Qatar

  Shouldn’t Martin Ødegaard, when protesting against worker exploitation in Qatar, do the same against his club’s most important sponsor, the United Arab Emirates, which treats its migrant workers the same or perhaps worse than Qatar? Norway and the boycott of Qatar World Cup