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“The most tragic thing in the world and in life, readers and brothers of mine, is love. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion; love is consolation in desolation; it is the sole medicine against death, for love is death’s brother.” Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life Looking Beneath: World [...]

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“The Safety of the People shall be the Highest Law.” Cicero Eschatology is about certain end-of-life expectations, about “last or final judgments, about death, about God’s judgment and the human “soul.” But what possible connections could link such metaphysical or religious expectations with Israel’s current struggle against jihadist terror? Are there any pertinent legal connections? [...]

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The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against women (CDAW) Thursday found Spain responsible for “obstetric violence” after a woman who went to a public hospital was subjected to a caesarian section without her consent. In 2012, an unnamed Spanish national presented herself at a public hospital in Donostia, Spain while 38 weeks pregnant. [...]

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The Ghent Court of Appeal Monday refused to extradite Spanish rapper José Miguel Arenas Beltrán to Spain. Arenas, known by his stage name Valtònyc, was due to serve a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for insulting the Spanish Royal Family and praising the Basque terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), but he fled to Belgium before starting [...]

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Abstract: Regarding American foreign policy, US President Joseph Biden has now correctly embarked upon a plan to reverse derelictions of his White House predecessor. As many Trump-inflicted harms were grievous and potentially catastrophic, this plan is commendable. At the same time, even in the most optimistic historical narratives, American foreign policy has always been shaped [...]

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