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UN101: What is UNESCO and why should we care about it?
Imagine an agency of the UN that focused on spreading and promoting peace and security through the means of international cooperation in...
Leilani Radaideh
Nov 24, 2021


COP26: Business as usual?
On Wednesday evening last week, speakers from Maastricht’s different climate organizations came together to debate the outcomes of this...
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
Nov 22, 2021


Calais five years on: Covid, Brexit and hostile policies
Guest article by Carla Laudien, Fundraising and Events Executive at Maastricht Goes to Calais At the beginning of the last academic year,...
Guest Writer
Aug 2, 2021


Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act: a pragmatic step toward principled wilderness
In November 2020, almost unnoticed between a second wave of Covid infections and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court...
Peter Pelzer
Apr 30, 2021


India’s Farmers rise up and the world is not watching
In the closing months of 2020, over a quarter billion people have taken to the streets of India to protest the new farming bills that...
Céline Zahno
Mar 25, 2021


Arabia’s Temple of Dreams and the World’s Horrifying Nightmares.
“Hey, you, the unfair tyrants… You the lovers of the darkness… You the enemies of life… You’ve made fun of innocent people’s wounds, and...
Guest Writer
Mar 13, 2021


Political Poisoning – The Downfall of the Ultimate Silencer
“When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure” Assassinations are as old as all human societies. Whether you wish to replace a...
Ethan Bergman
Feb 10, 2021


Guns, Oil & Heat for the North Pole; The Actual Cold War
Sometimes the perception of power is more important than physical might. It seems Santa Claus will no longer have a monopoly on business...
Ethan Bergman
Jan 17, 2021


Football Hooliganism & Identity Hijack; Ajax’s Jewish Persona
The vast majority of sport club fan bases have a formed identity and culture which permits them to differentiate themselves from others,...
Ethan Bergman
Jan 9, 2021


Let us not forget our humanity.
Since February, societies worldwide have found themselves in a downward spiral of crisis. Negativity is all around and difficult to...
Marence Jurgens
Dec 30, 2020


Easy as ACB – On Amy Coney Barrett’s Induction Into the SCOTUS
From Ginsburg’s era of freedoms and equality to Coney Barrett’s conservative reign of dismantling minority rights. On September 18th of...
Paula Cepeda Gallo
Dec 23, 2020


Blowing the dogwhistle and dividing society
“Globohomo”, “Le Happy Merchant”, "Identitarianism », « Jogger », « Kalergi Plan », « Magapede », « Power level », « Shlomo », « Three...
Ethan Bergman
Nov 13, 2020


Nagorno-Karabakh - From forgotten conflict to settled dispute?
The year 2020 has sprung numerous surprises and geo-politics has certainly not been spared. If you have been following the political...
Parthabi Kanungo
Nov 13, 2020


Student Politics 101
Right now, as you are sipping your cup of tea, someone is out there in the bureaucratic wilderness representing you..
Peter Pelzer
Nov 11, 2020


Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe…but what does this mean?
I’m often asked what the EU does. This question can be, and usually is, a loaded one. However, I do very much understand the need to know...
Brendan Hogan
Nov 5, 2020


Women's Leadership in Climate Activism
Ever since the impressive actions of the Suffragettes in the early 20th century, a standard has been set for women activists. Women have...
Suzon Mazataud
Nov 5, 2020


Happy Holiday’s! Here’s an airstrike for you.
Happy Holiday’s! Here’s an airstrike for you. What’s better than starting off a new decade than the possibility of another conflict in...
Head Editor
Jan 21, 2020


The Dark Side of the Meme
The Dark Side of the Meme Memes really are quite something. Ubiquitous to most, but some of us still remember a time when they weren’t a...
Head Editor
Dec 5, 2019


Let’s “silly walk” away from Fascism
A few weeks ago, Greece witnessed one of the most interesting military parades in the last decades. A few female students in Athens...
Head Editor
Nov 14, 2019


Poorly Outsourced
Photograph by Sebastien Le Derout Before you start reading, I would like to mention that this post was originally made for a course I am...
Head Editor
Jun 8, 2019
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