2014

Articles

• 1 September 2014, by Siddharth Varadarajan

  The Futility of Not Talking to Pakistan

  Modi has erred greatly by cancelling talks instead of pursuing an enlightened internal Kashmir policy India is perhaps the only major power in the world to regard dialogue with an adversary as (...)
• 1 September 2014, by David Mandel

  Understanding the Civil War in Ukraine

  The Ukrainian conflict, like most political phenomena, is multi-dimensional and highly complex. As such, it calls for a holistic – dialectical, if you wish – approach. But to judge by American and (...)
• 1 September 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Women in Tunisia: The Struggle for Equality is Not Over

  On August 13, 2014, Tunisian women commemorated the 58th anniversary of the promulgation of the Personal Status Code (PSC) that transformed married and family life in Tunisia. In fact, the PSC (...)
• 1 September 2014, by Roger Waters

  Why Moral Perversity of U.S. Position in Gaza is Stunning

  I think it’s safe to say that if U.S. neighborhoods were living under siege, folks like Rand Paul wouldn’t take it The carnage in Gaza continues after the latest collapse of cease-fire talks and (...)
• 1 August 2014, by Michael Reford

  Casualties of a Conservative Government

  Canada is still the calm, expansive landmass just above the United States. In recent memory, that idea is being increasingly challenged by Stephen Harper’s Progressive Conservative government. The (...)
• 1 August 2014, by Michael Bramadat-Willcock

  Lac-Mégantic: One year later

  As my childhood home of Lac-Mégantic reeled in the wake of the July 6, 2013 derailment that left its center destroyed, journalists flocked to the small town. After the explosion my family and I (...)
• 1 August 2014, by Stefan Christoff

  Trudeau Embraces Injustice, in Canada and Gaza

  Justin Trudeau is failing to speak out against ongoing Israeli war crimes in Gaza, clearly illustrating a broader hypocritical and unprincipled political orientation. Although the dynasty (...)
• 1 August 2014, by Eli Aminov

  Renewed Slaughter in Gaza Ghetto

  Another round of fighting, another massacre larger than its predecessor, another genocidal war and another failure. This is the future that the state of Jews promises for its citizens and (...)
• 1 August 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Setting Path to Next Elections: Hardships and Challenges

  One point to be made at the outset: Tunisian citizens are not queuing up to register for the next elections. Out of the roughly four million new eligible voters to cast their vote for the next (...)
• 1 August 2014, by Belén Fernandez

  Make Love and War

  Back in 2007, the pages of Maxim magazine played host to a public relations effort to refurbish the image of the Israel Defense Forces, which had been tarnished by—among other nefarious (...)
• 1 August 2014, by Norman Finkelstein

  Do Palestinians Have the Legal Right to Resist the Israeli Blockade and Occupation?

  On July 7, Israel unleashed Operation Protective Edge against Gaza. When it launched a ground invasion on July 18, Israel had already killed 230 Gazan Palestinians — of whom 75% (171) were (...)
• 1 July 2014, by Bradley Castelli

  Peoples’ Social Forum: Canada

  The 2014 Peoples’ Social Forum will take place from August 21 to 24 this summer in Ottawa. The first ever pan-Canadian social forum is expected to draw some 10 000 participants from all over the (...)
• 1 July 2014, by Nathalie Baptiste

  Soccer Is Democratic. The World Cup Is Oligarchy.

  It’s the biggest sporting event in the world. Fans from virtually every place on Earth don jerseys, scarves, and caps and head to the nearest bar to chug an ice-cold beer while passionately (...)
• 1 July 2014, by Stefan Christoff

  On ‘reasonability’ in activism and demanding the impossible

  Over recent days in Montréal, after joining multiple activist discussions (including those at the Montréal Student Movement Convention), revolving around possible frameworks for asserting political (...)
• 1 July 2014, by Sudhish Kamath

  The World Before Her: Two women, two worlds

  Very rarely do we see the world through the eyes of the heroine in Indian cinema. Most of it, if not all, has been the hero’s journey. The heroine is always playing a supporting role or a (...)

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