Arrêtez-Moi Quelqu’un! (Someone Stop Me!)

With negotiations between Quebec protesters and government officials at a stalemate, a new site is posting photos of those choosing to disobey Special Law 78, which suspends the right to freedom of assembly. French not necessary: the joyful, defiant faces, and their numbers, say it all.

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The Failure of Austerity: Soup Kitchens in the Birthplace of Democracy

A recession has become a depression in Greece, where an economy run by "a group of gangsters" is hurting all the wrong people. Echoes of ancient cultural reference points from Sisyphus to Icarus, and a harbinger of what might await the rest of Europe. "There is precisely zero chance of austerity working. It is the same as thinking you can escape from gravity by waving your arms up and down."

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