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Several Premier League captains are in the spotlight for their decisions as the league sets about their annual collaboration with Stonewall Organisation with the ‘Rainbow Laces’ campaign with a gesture towards LGBTQ+ inclusion. What is The Rainbow Laces Campaign? The LGBTQ+ organisation Stonewall and UK bookmaker Paddy Power first collaborated on the campaign in 2013, sending rainbow-coloured laces to all professional football players in England and Scotland. In an effort to promote inclusivity throughout the top division of English football, the Premier League formally partnered with Stonewall after players were encouraged to wear them as a sign of support for…

South Korea saw a brief glimpse of how a proper descent into fascism could look like with their President Yoon Suk Yeol declaring an emergency Martial Law on live television with the claim that it would help eliminate “shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces”—only for it to be reversed hours later.  What Is Martial Law? When a civil administration is replaced by military leadership who have unrestricted authority to suspend the regular legal safeguards for civilian rights, this is known as martial law. Martial law can be established during a coup or declared in response to a crisis. Because it is…

The Immediate Context The Syrian government forces lost control of the country’s second-largest city—Aleppo, on Sunday for the first time since the conflict started in 2011 according to a war monitor. The onslaught started on Wednesday and coincided as Israel and Hezbollah were negotiating a fragile ceasefire in neighbouring Lebanon after two especially brutal months. With the exception of areas occupied by Kurdish forces, the rebels currently control nearly all of Aleppo.This operation seems to have been planned for some time by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which carried out major military drills in the months that preceded the attack. According…

Under an agreement negotiated by the United States and France, a Ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese group Hazbollah was undertaken on November 27th, 2024. Pre-existent distrust surrounding the weight of the deal in Lebanon intensified as Israeli attacks did not seem to come to a halt following its signing. A ceasefire agreement of undetermined fragility was finally reached on Wednesday following Israel’s war on Lebanon that continued for 14 long and agonising months which witnessed an escalation across the south in late September with a ground invasion and intense bombardments. It makes way for a 60-day halt to the…