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1 July 2017, by Messaoud Romdhani
Leaving Maghreb Youth on the Sidelines
Whether they are in Tataouine (Tunisia) or in El-Houceima (Morocco), young people are facing the same problems: long-term unemployment, endemic poverty and deliberate marginalization. Instead of (...) -
1 July 2017, by Mouin Rabbani
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Cooperation Council Crisis
It is tempting, and not entirely inaccurate, to dismiss the escalating crisis between Qatar and a number of its neighbors as a petulant princely playground spat. Extending this tempting logic, (...) -
1 July 2017, by Jawed Naqvi
India-Wide Rallies Held Against Lynching of Muslims, Dalits
NEW DELHI: When it gets unbearably hot in parts of India a cloudburst ends the long spells of suffocation and suffering. The rain clouds visited Delhi all too briefly on Wednesday but they may (...) -
1 July 2017
World Heritage Watch report on the destruction of Sur
A new report has been released by the World Heritage Watch on the destruction of large parts of the 7000 years old city (Suriçi) of Amed (Diyarbakir) in North Kurdistan by the Turkish state since (...) -
1 July 2017, by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
The Lynching of a Nation
Lynching is a modern form of tribalism, where enemies – differentiated by religion, race, caste or ideology – are bracketed for elimination. Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, (...) -
1 July 2017
In Solidarity With ‘Not in My Name’
Progressives in the subcontinent have long played a leading role in the struggle against discrimination targeting any group of people as well as in the struggle for the equality of all regardless (...) -
1 July 2017, by Ravish Kumar
The National Project for Instilling Fear Has Reached Completion
On June 9, 2017, Basit Malik, a reporter for Caravan magazine, went on a reporting assignment to Sonia Vihar in Delhi where there is a dispute between some Muslim and Hindu residents of the (...) -
1 June 2017, by Myssana Morany
Israel Aims New Nakba-Style Weapon At Arab Citizens
The new so-called Kaminitz Law allows the Israeli government to carry out mass home demolitions in Arab villages and towns already hard hit by housing shortages and discriminatory state policies. (...) -
1 June 2017, by Catherine Shakdam
Yemen - a Nation in Resistance Against Wahhabi Imperialism
Yemen was earmarked for a brutal military takeover the minute its people began to assert their sovereign rights against the diktat of Saudi Arabia. Here we are again discussing the human (...) -
1 June 2017, by Pritam Singh
‘Naxalbari’: Fifty Years Later
Today, May 25, will commemorate 50 years of the Maoist uprising of Naxalbari in West Bengal. In March, 1967, a decision was taken in Naxalbari to carry out an armed rebellion for the rights of (...) -
1 June 2017, by Rajdeep Sardesai
Two Different Daughters of India
Both Jyoti Singh and Bilkis Bano were brutalised and gangraped. What happened to them holds a mirror to the darker side of our society and yet their narratives do diverge, a separation that (...) -
1 June 2017, by John Feffer
The Nixonization of Donald Trump
In the aftermath of Watergate, the country turned to the left. Are progressives positioned to capitalize on Trump’s stumbles today? The comparisons are multiplying. There was Trump’s appeal to (...) -
1 June 2017, by Sukumar Muralidharan
En Marche to Uncertainty
The French election was fought within a narrow spectrum of nationalist anxiety For embattled western liberals, it was like emerging into a new dawn of hope. On May 7, Emmanuel Macron, deftly (...) -
1 June 2017, by Jawed Naqvi
Terror of the Witches’ Prophecy
In a phenomenally wired world like ours we should ideally be more enlightened and connected. The reality is the opposite, bordering on the occult. There seems to be more focus on the witches’ (...) -
1 June 2017, by Mostafa Henaway
Migration and Capitalism, in the Age of Trump
“We are people! We are not illegal!”— Kiwi Ilafonte This past May 1st, across the United States and here in Quebec, the spirit of May Day was alive and well. Immigrant workers have given (...)