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Now consider not just the productive kind of gardening but the explicitly unproductive kind. Orwell was passionate in the garden, as he was about nature generally. To Orwell, admiring the beauty of natural things, even the lowly toad, is a first, necessary step towards ensuring the planet is a place where we might have a chance of eking out a "decent" existence, to use a pet word of his. [Extracted from the article]

Though each chilling to contemplate, Ebola and HIV/AIDS are merely two swells at the front of a gathering storm. "Make no mistake", David Quammen writes in Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, published all the way back in 2012, "they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another." As many as three quarters of both emerging and re-emerging diseases owe their rise to incidents of "zoonotic spillover", or the transference of pathogens from animals to humans. Smallpox was also the infection that spurred the development, in the late eighteenth century, of the first vaccine (a word deriving from variolae vaccinae, or cowpox, controlled exposure to which was found to give immunity to the other pox). [Extracted from the article]

IN ITS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 issue, Law Practice first highlighted the potential of entrepreneurial attorneys with a passion for social justice and a drive to build community-based practices targeting the underserved. [...]

Malm makes a compelling case for one plausible, if pause-giving, approach to breaking up the moral, intellectual, and political deadlock currently seizing the climate struggle. The scene was COP1", writes activist and scholar Andreas Malm. Malm's answer is to "announce and enforce the prohibition" of CO2-emitting devices. Malm has travelled the civil-disobedience path further than most (not least alongside German coal-mine occupiers Ende Gelände). [Extracted from the article]

Meanwhile, outspoken social-democrat Bernie Sanders won over younger voters in the contest to become the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 2016. Among those 17 to 29 years of age, Sanders received 72 per cent of votes; Hilary Clinton, on the other hand, received 28 per cent. (These numbers were almost exactly the inverse in the case of senior Democrats.) Sanders may have charmed Democrats under 30. As much as Occupy served as a galvanizing prelude to Sanders' run for the presidency, so could the Tea Party be construed as a portent of Donald Trump's. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:10of/01may20:90n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): gl On the northern bank of the Ottawa River, amid the hurling of stun grenades and tear-gas cannisters, police and Indigenous militants exchanged gunfire, killing one. In neighbouring suburbs, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) quelled rioting non-Natives. Along its planned 670-kilometre-long path, Coastal GasLink is to cut through the territories of several First Nations, including the Wet'suwet'en's twenty-two thousand square kilometres of unceded land. But who, exactly, speaks for the Wet'suwet'en on a "nation- to-nation" basis?. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:10of/01may20:86n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): gl "All of them means all of them" - so said the people of Lebanon, demanding that their leaders be sacked. "They are not taking the Lebanese people seriously with this government", Charbel Kahi, another protestor, told the Associated Free Press. "Just like we forced the previous government to step down because it did not meet the demands of the people", yet another protestor, Wael Hassaniyeh, told Reuters, "the same fate awaits this government, God willing.". [Extracted from the article]

Many Kurds living or educated in metropolitan Istanbul identified more naturally as imperial subjects - participants in a "greater and more sophisticated political culture", as David McDowall puts it, in his Modern History of the Kurds - and were averse to the parochial connotations of ethnic nationalism. others feared alienating the disparate groups on whom they depended economically or socially, instead holding fast to their membership within an assorted community united, by and large, by a common Muslim faith. The Kurds were allocated autonomy within northern Kurdistan, the possibility of complete independence one year later should the League of Nations see it fit, and the chance to make a case for the adhesion of southern Kurdistan (to be made a Turkish territory, meantime) at some future date. Nor did it ensure the Kurds' safeguarding as a minority, save the use of their language in official settings. in fact, it contained no mention by name of the Kurds or of Kurdistan whatsoever. This it borrows from the principles of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, or PKK), the Marxist-Leninist movement founded in 1978 by Turkish Kurd Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan. [Extracted from the article]

Monsanto "fusion center" officials wrote a lengthy report about singer Neil Young's anti-Monsanto advocacy, monitoring his impact on social media, and at one point considering "legal action". Monsanto paid Google to promote search results for "Monsanto Glyphos ate Carey Gillam" that criticised her work. Monsanto officials were repeatedly worried about the release of documents on their financial relationships with scientists that could support the allegations they were "covering up unflattering research". [Extracted from the article]

Evolving circumstances often beg a reconsideration of what is inherited from yesterday - what rules and customs, institutions and laws, and all besides that makes up both the state and society - and whether they deserve continuance, reform, or sweeping change. Where the state and its affairs are so far beyond redemption, or where change is made impossible due to the state's calcified limitations, that the last of these - what might signal revolution - is decided, the question of "how" invariably follows. When mismanagement and corruption lead states into ruin; when the many are immiserated for the benefit of the luxuriant few; when the multitudes are treated not with basic dignity, but like swine at slaughter - first, a warning; then, with trepidation, a call to arms. "[XR] is humbly following in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King", Hallam wrote in The Guardian last May. [Extracted from the article]

ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute, has your health in mind. Three years prior, in a study funded by ILSI, Johnston sought to cast doubt on guidelines that warn consumers of health risks associated with sugar. For decades, under the guise of "health" and "well-being", ILSI has insidiously embedded its brood of lies into the conversation about what is healthy, and what is not. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, highlighting the role of armed resistance and sabotage in addition to peaceful protests. The apartheid regime, which enforced racial separation and white supremacy, was in place for over 75 years until Nelson Mandela became the country's first Black president in 1994. The article emphasizes the importance of events like the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, which led to further resistance and the formation of the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress. It also mentions the international support for the anti-apartheid movement and the US government's initial support for the apartheid regime. Despite Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize, he remained on the US terrorism watch list until 2008. [Extracted from the article]

Your maps continue to be outstanding; not only informational but easy to read. The Amtrak Night and Day map [pages 62-63, November] was especially clever and will save us sightseers […]

"The purpose of Newspeak", wrote Orwell, "was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible": It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. In his study of "brainwashing" in Communist China, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton wrote that "the language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché": By "simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in", Orwell wrote, clichés can "construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you.". [Extracted from the article]

In 2005, Kyjov's then-mayor, while admiring some of Tichy's photographs in Zürich, explained that he had known of Tichy since his childhood ("since I went to the swimming pool", where Tichy was forbidden to enter), when fellow children thought of Tichy as a frightening, spectral presence. In the photographs of Eldowy and Jarcovjakova, the warmth and resoluteness of the humanist gaze is crystallized, preserved in light and shade; looking forward to days where things are better but, for now, distilling for posterity that which is already beautiful. Inspired by the film Lourdes, she set off to photograph "those who go to Lourdes and to create a narrative between the people and the landscape … and the spirituality and sense of hope that permeates the Sanctuary of 'Our Lady of Lourdes.'" But the faces of the devout - all but upturned in faithful expectation - are the most compelling evidence to suggest that Tomlinson has photographed scenes not of today but out of Europe's pre-modern past. [Extracted from the article]

Frederick Wiseman's latest documentary, City Hall, is his forty-third, but who's counting? The institution of the title is Boston's, and the film's leading man, so to speak, is Mayor Martin J. Walsh. Likewise, if Walsh - or rather, the assemblage whose figurehead is Walsh - comes out in the hero's corner, then the film's villain is none other than the 45th president. [Extracted from the article]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues, including "Flexible and Distributed Software Processes: Old Petunias in New Bowls," from the October 2006 issue, "Music Score Alignment and Computer Accompaniment," and "Changing the Paradigm of Software Engineering," both from the August 2006 issue.

"This is a Jesus movement", a Californian rally-goer told the Times. "Father in heaven, we firmly believe that Donald Trump is the current and true president of the United States", prayed one evangelist at a recent Trump rally in Michigan "in Jesus' name.". [Extracted from the article]

Once at a presentation I was reliably informed that the brain has two sides: the right or 'creative' aspect and the left or 'analytical' side. As if by magic, I [...]