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On the high-tech path to destruction

By Khaled Diab Rather than humans becoming enslaved by robots, machines have become the new slave or serf class, with

Is Europe not working?

The chair of a leading multinational claims that Europeans do not work hard enough and do not value work enough. I beg to differ.

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Today starts the largest trial in Belgium's history in which the alleged perpetrators of the 2016 Brussels terror attack, the country's worst peacetime atrocity. I hope the trial brings justice for the casualties and closure for their families. theguardian.com/world/2022/de…

08:03 · December 5, 2022

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Moreover, the contradictory signals from the judiciary and the interior ministry could be a sign that there is conflict within the regime. And the hardliners usually come out on top.

21:05 · December 4, 2022

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If Iran's morality police is truly being disbanded and its hijab law is being reviewed, this would be a huge win for protesters. But it would still be a small step towards gender equality in a country with so many misogynistic laws. #IranRevolution #IranRevolution2022

20:31 · December 4, 2022

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@bobfoxer I have every sympathy with his struggle against bipolar disorder. But while his mental health issues may influence his reckless behaviour, it does not determine his politics and beliefs. And these ideas are so dangerous that they, in my view, need to be challenged.

16:39 · December 4, 2022

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What the case of Kanye West reveals is that victims of racism can also be perpetrators of racism - the two are not mutually exclusive. Belonging to a marginalised, long-excluded group does not immunise all its members against othering and discriminating against other groups.

15:33 · December 4, 2022

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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is prescient on so many levels, such as when it comes to the rise of superficial consumerism and the debasing of science. However, he got the role of sex and the demise of the family spectacularly wrong in his consumer-centred Dystopian Utopia.

20:13 · December 3, 2022

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No, Kanye West (Ye), you can't love both Jews and Nazis because the Nazis wished to exterminate Jews. As for Hitler, he believed blacks were as inferior a race as the Jews, Roma and Slavs. The Nazis persecuted Afro-Germans. #Antisemitism #KanyeWest politico.com/news/2022/12/0…

19:43 · December 2, 2022

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The trauma the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate caused conservative Muslims is often credited with propelling modern Islamism. However, the role played by Turkish intellectuals in founding Islamist ideas has been forgotten, as Andrew Hammond reminds us in this fascinating read. twitter.com/Hammonda1/stat…

09:06 · December 2, 2022

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For the first time, the leading cause of death in Belgium is dementia - and, in some ways, one of the most horrifying. This is the result both of the triumph and limitations of medical science. vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022…

08:00 · December 2, 2022

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When people ask me, "Where are you from?" My most honest go-to answer is: "It's complicated."

18:56 · December 1, 2022

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