2016

Articles

• 1 December 2016, by Chris Hedges

  It’s Worse Than You Think

  Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments in the stocks of (...)
• 1 December 2016, by Saib Bilaval

  Hillary Clinton Is Not Simply A Symptom Of Our Corrupt System, She Is A Leading Cause

  Since the results of the US Presidential election were announced, media focus has been on how Donald Trump won, rather than how Hillary lost. In the two days after the results, most of the media (...)
• 1 December 2016, by Immanuel Wallerstein

  "The U.S. Election: It’s over at last, or is it?”

  Almost everyone is astonished at Trump’s victory. It is said that even Trump was astonished. And of course now everyone is explaining how it happened, although the explanations are different. And (...)
• 1 December 2016, by Yanis Varoufakis

  Trump Victory Comes With A Silver Lining For The World’s Progressives

  The election of Donald Trump symbolises the demise of a remarkable era. It was a time when we saw the curious spectacle of a superpower, the US, growing stronger because of – rather than despite – (...)
• 1 December 2016, by Martin Lukacs

  Justin Trudeau’s Giant Corporate Giveaway

  A privatization spree in Canada could cost regular people billions, erode democracy and undermine the fight against climate change While prime minister Justin Trudeau flogged our public assets (...)
• 1 December 2016, by Matthew Behrens

  Armed Drones Part of Trudeau’s New Military

  A proposed Canadian Mission Sequence of Events takes readers through the log of a drone mission, with demonstrators referred to as “moving targets” and drones employed to “assist ground security (...)
• 1 December 2016, by Jean Drèze

  The New Abnormal In Kashmir

  Continued repression is likely to intensify the alienation in Kashmir. It would be much wiser for the government to realise the futility of stonewalling and initiate unconditional talks with all (...)
• 1 December 2016, by Antoine Khalili

  Montreal Convergence Assembly on Rojava and the Kurdish Struggle for World Kobane Day

  On Tuesday, November 1st 2016, World Kobane Day, activists and allies of the inspiring social movements in Rojava (the northern region of Syria) gathered in a large number of cities across the (...)
• 1 November 2016, by Francesco Amoruso and Endika Rodriguez-Martin

  Settler Colonialisms of a Special Type: Apartheid in Palestine/Israel and South Africa

  A review of Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid. Edited by Ilan Pappé. Zed Books (2015). If the reader is searching for a thorough academic comparative work on Israel and South (...)
• 1 November 2016, by Siddharth Varadarajan

  As Modi Dumps Palestine at UN, His Praise for Israeli Army Does India Military No Credit

  In his zeal to harvest political capital from the Indian army’s recent action targeting terrorists along the Line of Control, Modi has conveniently forgotten that the Israeli army’s ‘valour’ has (...)
• 1 November 2016, by Tommaso Segantini

  Norman Finkelstein: Prospects, Hope and Strategies for the Future in Palestine

  The year 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories during the 1967 war. In this exchange with freelance journalist Tommaso Segantini, Norman (...)
• 1 November 2016, by Jooneed Khan

  Aruna Roy And The Grassroots Revolution In India

  In the “multiple Indias” where firebrand social activist Aruna Roy has earned herself a world-wide reputation for integrity and commitment, women of all castes, classes and creeds come together (...)
• 1 November 2016, by VOICES

  The “Canada Brand”: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America

  Executive Summary The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School has documented troubling incidents of violence associated with Canadian mining (...)
• 1 November 2016, by Jehan Perera

  Sri Lanka: Justice Must Also Be Seen To Be Done

  COLOMBO: The common cause of the National Unity Government to tackle the corruption of the past and to put an end to it in the present seemed to come apart at the seams when President Maithripala (...)
• 1 November 2016, by Marti

  A Weekend of Rights and Peace in “Another Iraq”

  The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative celebrates the tremendous success of the Iraqi Social Forum and The Baghdad Marathon for Peace in Iraq (22-24 September 2016, Baghdad). Where can (...)