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The steady tick, tick of the counter for confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide pays no regard to news that as of the first week of July, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has bought out nearly the entire global supply of…
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In this episode of MIR Meets, contributor Mathieu Lavault sits down with Arthur Rizer, the director of justice and national security policy for the R Street Institute, where he heads institute programs dealing with a variety of issues…
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The healthcare system in Afghanistan is under attack, both by the Taliban and by a virus that knows no bounds. Women's health has become a pawn, with women’s human rights being violated in a social context that already disadvantages them.
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Many Americans regard the Second Amendment as a safeguard against government tyranny. Yet few, according to Staff Writer Jonah Fried, understand that the amendment was originally intended to protect the institution of slavery.
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Given that some members of NAM have outgrown their status as developing countries and others have acquired far more power than their Cold War-selves could have imagined, one is forced to question the extent to which NAM simply is a Cold War…
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Joshua Poggianti, contributeur au MIR, revient sur le retour en salle pour le cinéma français et les implications pour l'industrie.
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Nearly four decades later, the dominant issues of Basquiat’s generation, including police brutality as depicted in his famous painting “Defacement,” and the lack of opportunities for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) in the art…
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Although the removal of these racist monuments is perhaps not "violence" as Fanon likely envisioned it when he wrote of colonial independence movements, there is a parallel to be drawn between Fanon’s writings about the psychology of…
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The rhetoric of social workers as a one-size-fits-all solution to police brutality overlooks the history and current reality of social work as a perpetrator of systemic racism, and how this field uniquely impacts Indigenous and Black…
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In light of George Floyd’s death and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests across the United States and the globe, attention has turned to the deeper, systemic issues in America which extend far beyond police brutality. One of these…
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