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MO*conference @ Forward Fest: Development in a New Geopolitical Context

19 October 2020 -

These are times in which international relations are being transformed at breakneck speed and in which the existing world order is being questioned fundamentally. Will these turbulent times enable us to bring about sustainable development and a just redustribution of wealth? Is this finally the right time to decolonize, are we heading into the ...

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Video interview Robert Fisk: ‘Bombing people to solve a problem has never worked’

4 December 2015 -

Over a thousand people attended a lecture organized by MO* earlier this month. Gie Goris, editor-in-chief, sat down with Robert Fisk beforehand and talked about Syria, the importance of history and the numerous contradictions in the Middle East. 'Unless we see Syria as a product of its past as well as its present, we will come up with crazed ideas ...

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Saskia Sassen: 'We must become innovators'

14 March 2015 -

The current capitalist system is not fueled by money and consumption, instead it is fueled by financial speculation, according to Saskia Sassen, one of the top US political scientists. The current situation leaves us with dead land, dead water, and the massive expulsion of the common man. But it also offers us plenty of opportunities to start worki ...