2017

Articles

• 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 (...)
• 1 June 2017, by Alfredo Saad-Filho

  Brazil’s Political Rupture and the Left’s Opportunity

  Fora Temer – eleições diretas já! “Out with Temer – direct elections now!” Amid meltdown in Brazil, the left calls for democracy, while the right must find ways to deny the people a voice. The (...)
• 1 June 2017, by Ali Abunimah

  Hunger Strike Ends, Palestinian Prisoners Declare Victory

  GAZA: After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations (...)
• 1 June 2017, by Deneb Sumbul

  Labour Movement in Pakistan

  Karamat Ali, Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), is one of the most well known faces of the labour movement in Pakistan. In his 40-year journey (...)
• 1 May 2017, by HadfNews

  Prisoners Hunger Strike in Palestine

  Marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, and as over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners enter an open hunger strike for a series of demands, HadfNews published an interview with imprisoned (...)
• 1 May 2017, by Laura Carlsen

  Latin America’s Women-Led Movements and New Feminisms

  Less than a week before International Women’s Day a year ago, Honduran military men trained by the Pentagon burst into her home and assassinated Berta Caceres. Feminist, environmentalist, and (...)
• 1 May 2017, by Katherine Cashman

  Resistance Highways; Finding a Place for Protest in the U.S.A.

  “There is nothing more powerful than the sound of marching feet” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public protests arise out of the unique form of each city: the systems of governance, the character (...)
• 1 May 2017, by Tapan Bose

  Kashmir: Pellet Guns, Stone Pelting and the Supreme Court

  On March 28, during the fourth hearing of the J & K Bar Association’s appeal for banning the use of pellet guns in the valley, the Supreme Court apparently told the Bar Association that it (...)
• 1 May 2017, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  Kashmir: The Possibilities

  Kashmir needs people’s struggle, not terrorism In 2003 I interviewed the late Amanullah Khan, founder of the nationalist organization Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, for our documentary (...)
• 1 May 2017, by Vijay Prashad

  Why the U.S. Is a Bigger Threat Than North Korea

  A few years ago, I asked a retired Iraqi Air Force officer what it felt like to be bombed periodically by the United States in the 1990s. Whenever U.S. President Bill Clinton felt irritated, I (...)
• 1 May 2017, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  ‘Holy Shiver’

  Much of the Pakistani public, tacitly or openly, endorses violent punishment of suspected blasphemers. THE mental state of men ready and poised to kill has long fascinated scientists. The (...)
• 1 May 2017, by Jeremy Wildeman & Matteo Mazzoleni

  Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment

  In a foreign aid environment dominated top-down by donors, what can we do to facilitate local ownership over the aid process? Is it possible, or is the system just too flawed? Local Leadership (...)
• 1 May 2017, by A.T. Moussa Tchangari

  OXFAM Novib and Human Rights Organization in Niger

  After eleven years of partnership, the Dutch NGO OXFAM Novib decided, on March 22, 2017 to cut off all partnership relationship with the Nigerien Association Alternative Citizens’ Spaces (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Harish Khare

  The Consecration of a Hindu Vote Bank

  Here’s a simple question: why did the Modi magic work in Uttar Pradesh so gloriously but fail so conspicuously to cast its charm in Punjab, Goa and Manipur? If the Bharatiya Janata Party is the (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Ujjal Dosanjh

  This is How it Happens

  It is now considered harsh to call a spade a spade. One has less and less and sometimes no right to one’s truth. Ascendant is the truth of the strong, particularly the strong man This is how it (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Ravish Kumar

  “To Present an Alternative Opinion is a Serious Crime”

  NDTV anchor Ravish Kumar was on Sunday, March 19, awarded the inaugural Kuldip Nayyar Award for Journalism in recognition of his “outstanding journalism”. His speech at the ceremony has been (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Caravan Desk

  Teesta Setalvad Raises Rights Situation in India at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

  Renowned Indian activist spoke on behalf of the Advocates for Human Rights, Indian American Muslim Council, Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association and the Quill Foundation NEW DELHI – Eminent (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Messaoud Romdhani

  On Women’s International Day: Equality, You Said?

  The celebration of Women’s Day in Tunisia this year has shown that pride and self-satisfaction that have portrayed Tunisia as the pioneer in women’s emancipation, from the Code of Personal Status (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Sergio Yahni

  Palestine Says Popular Struggle is the Path to Liberation

  As support for the two state solution declines, Palestinians in occupied territory identify popular resistance as the antidote to Israeli occupation and settlement expansion. A study published (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Editor

  The Celebration of International Women’s Day in Iraq at Shahrazad Festival

  Several activities have been organized in March 2017 in Baghdad by the Iraqi Social Forum celebrating the International Women’s Day and aimed at supporting Iraqi women and strengthening their (...)
• 3 April 2017, by BDS National Committee

  Israel’s Ongoing Campaign to Silence Omar Barghouti and Repress BDS

  On the morning of Sunday, March 19, Israeli tax authorities barged into the home of Omar Barghouti, the prominent Palestinian human rights defender and co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Siddharth Varadarajan

  In Conversation With Baburam Bhattarai, Former Prime Minister of Nepal

  Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of The Wire, and Baburam Bhattarai, former prime minister of Nepal, discuss the recent political developments in Nepal and India-Nepal relations. (...)
• 3 April 2017, by Sally Burch

  The Challenge to Rebuild a People’s Internet

  It is already hard to imagine daily life without the innovations of the so-called digital technological “revolution” in spite of the fact that most of these innovations have proliferated over just (...)
• 3 April 2017

  Stand Against Religious Bigotry, Defend Democratic Rights of all Citizens of India

  29th March 2017 People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) condemns the murder of rationalist H. Farook in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu on March 16, 2017. Farook was a member of Dravidar (...)
• 1 February 2017, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Gauging Politics From Fiction

  David Ayer’s film «Suicide Squad», which broke box office records, was portrayed by critics as “two hours of soul-sickening confusion and sensory damage.” Its heroes (read: villains) have nothing in (...)
• 1 February 2017, by Saba Naqvi

  “The Only Problem is the People…”

  If the Tamils were ever to threaten secession, they would have nowhere to go but the Ocean, and even if they were to swim across, the Sri Lankans won’t have them! What’s a little bull between (...)
• 1 February 2017, by Pritam Singh

  Climate Change in Trump Times

  It may be a pure coincidence that the inauguration of Donald Trump is taking place at the same time as the world’s most respected climate monitoring scientific organisations are reporting that (...)
• 1 February 2017, by Vijay Prashad

  Peace is a Process

  Two days of talks over the war in Syria ended this week in Astana, Kazakhstan. Iran, Russia and Turkey were the main powers at the table. Kazakhstan was a perfect location for the talks, since it (...)
• 1 February 2017, by Phyllis Bennis

  Trump Is Carpet-Bombing U.S. Foreign Policy

  Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started. Very soon, Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order (...)
• 1 February 2017, by Ehab Lotayef

  The Dangers Of White Supremacy And Xenophobia

  Before shutting down my computer after a long Sunday, I read the news. News I did not imagine I would ever read, although, looking back, it was months and years in the making and clear signs were (...)
• 1 February 2017, by Sid Ryan

  Fight the Muslim Ban - Trump’s Not Welcome Here!

  In the mid-1800’s, Ireland was ravaged by a famine that killed millions over a 5 year period. More than one million Irish men, women and children boarded “coffin ships” in which they made their way (...)
• 1 January 2017, by Gustave Massiah

  The New World Struggles To Be Born

  The situation seems to be desperate. The offensive of the right wing and the far right movements occupies space and minds. It spreads out in the media and claims to express the shift of societies (...)
• 1 January 2017, by Ariane Brunet

  Syria: A Moment to Reflect

  The Syrian wars are one set of issues the other is the so-called peace to come, an added bonus here. Whether UN agencies, donors, mafia, proxy rebels, human rights NGO, women’s rights (...)
• 1 January 2017, by Kashmir Concerned Citizens’ Collective

  Kashmir

  SRINAGAR, December 16: The Concerned Citizens’ Collective team that visited Kashmir from 12 to 16 December 2016, expressed deep dismay to observe that the people of the Kashmir valley have been (...)
• 1 January 2017, by Kurdish Question

  New Internationalist Antifascist Battalion Formed in Rojava-Northern Syria

  The battalion, formed by foreign volunteers from around the globe was declared on 19 December 2016 with a press statement. The statement by the group, which was released online read: "Today (...)
• 1 January 2017, by Patrick Cockburn

  This Is Why Everything You’ve Read About The Wars In Syria And Iraq Could Be Wrong

  It is too dangerous for journalists to operate in rebel-held areas of Aleppo and Mosul. But there is a tremendous hunger for news from the Middle East, so the temptation is for the media give (...)
• 1 January 2017, by Pritam Singh

  Punjab’s Dalits and Politics of Patronage

  The share of Dalits in the population of Punjab is higher than in any other state. What distinguishes Punjab’s story of failed Dalit mobilisation from UP’s successful model of Dalit mobilisation is (...)
• 1 January 2017, by Haidar Eid

  An Independent Palestinian Reaction to John Kerry’s "Historic" Speech

  GAZA: Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a speech on December, 28, in which he lamented the defunct two- state solution for the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” (The reason I am using (...)
• 1 January 2017

  “US Vote was Obama Revenge on Netanyahu”

  The UN Security Council has passed a resolution censuring Israel for its settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories after the US refused to veto it, reversing its longstanding (...)