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Green Nationalism: Why the ‚Love of My Country’ is Environmentally Unsustainable

October 1, 2019 by The IotL Magazine Leave a Comment

The ‘love of my country’ is often based on the belief that if ‘my country’ does well, I will do well, too. However, this love is not mutual. ‘My country’ doesn’t love me back—unless I belong to its privileged class.

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National Holiday Is Not for the Workers

September 21, 2019 by The IotL Magazine Leave a Comment

Is the worker free to choose whether to work on a holiday or not? Is it truly a free choice? And if a worker feels the need to work on a holiday to earn double instead of taking a day off, what does this suggest about the cost of living?

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Malta’s National Anthem? It’s Noise.

August 21, 2019 by Raisa Galea Leave a Comment

“National Anthem”, a solo exhibition by Kevin Mallan is a verdict, a protest song and, in the artist’s own words, “an outcry for this island and what the order of the day has become to signify”.

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Surveillance Capitalism: the Business Model that Governs Your Life

April 12, 2019 by The IotL Magazine Leave a Comment

Tech giants sell predictions about us. Incredibly accurate predictions.

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Luxury Mega-Developments and the Distorted Meaning of Progress

February 21, 2019 by Francois Zammit Leave a Comment

Land grabs for the sake of luxury developments are the very opposite of progress. They erode the democratic achievements and threaten to drag us back to the past where the lion share of all resources was owned by a class of feudal lords.

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