Alternatives International Journal

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• 1 July 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Tunisia: Old Cultural Reflexes and Nascent Democracy

  After January 14th, 2011, the most uncommon dreams of a beleaguered small country were permitted, and some of them have already come true: for the first time there have been the formation of (…)
• 1 July 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan

  Globalisation of Misery

  One in every 122 people on the planet today is displaced, a result of the iniquities of development the world over World Refugee Day on June 20 may have been just one of those rituals conjured (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Sophia Reuss

  Lampedusa: European Border Delocalization in the Mediterranean

  Lampedusa, a rocky, 20-square kilometre Italian island in the Mediterranean, lies 113 kilometres east of Tunisia and 300 kilometers north of Libya. In the past two decades, Lampedusa, an (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Sophie Smith and Jennifer Geleff

  Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing: Rohingya Adrift in Southeast Asia

  The Rohingya people are an oppressed Muslim minority group in Buddhist-majority Myanmar that have faced an enduring history of ethnic discrimination and systemic poverty. In Myanmar, the Rohingya (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Kyle Jacques

  Mediterranean Militarization: A New Obstacle for Europe’s Migrants

  Last April over 800 people drowned to death in the Mediterranean Sea after a ship packed full of migrants capsized on its way from Libya to Italy. The victims of this tragedy were much like the (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Interview

  The Roots of Inequality for Ethiopian Israelis

  Jessica Desvarieux, Producer, TRNN interviews Lia Tarachansky Jessica Desvarieux: So Lia, when the protests and the destruction of property took place in Baltimore last week, we covered it and (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Frans Jansson

  A Kurdish Perspective on the Turkish Elections

  ISTANBUL – Hopes and fears are plentiful in Kurdish and left-wing politics in Turkey ahead of the elections on Sunday. The Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), the left-wing party focused on the (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Saving What’s Left of the Arab Spring

  When Tunisia succeeded in holding its second legislative and presidential elections by the end of 2014, the “Washington Post” wrote: “Remember the Arab Spring? Here’s what’s left,” (November 23, (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Dylan Boyko

  Uncovering Something Less Ignorant

  I first heard of the vague concept of the Armenian Genocide when I was 13 reading a Kurt Vonnegut novel called Bluebeard. The book was first published in 1987, and only the narrator’s distant (…)
• 1 June 2015, by Alternatives

  Fighting Austerity

  You are kindly invited to join us at this third edition of The Festival of Solidarity to be held in Montreal, on June 13th, at Salle Agora- Coeur des sciences de l’UQAM, from 9:30am to 5:30pm. (…)
• 4 May 2015, by Sophia Reuss

  Colonialism and Austerity: The Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada

  The situation of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, Harper’s failure to respond to demands for a national inquiry into the issue, and intensifying federal and provincial austerity (…)
• 4 May 2015, by James Patrick Cannon

  Austerity on Trial? Much at stake for Spain in Electoral Year

  2015 is a critical year for Spain’s progressive forces. The country is set to hold municipal and regional elections in May, and national elections by the end of the year, democratic exercises (…)
• 4 May 2015, by Dylan Boyko

  The Grexit Looms

  The unfortunately named grexit looms unenviably. Caught between the hardline dictates of the IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the uncertain plans of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and (…)
• 4 May 2015, by Kyle Jacques

  Case of Bolivia Offers Alternative Perspective on the Supposed Necessity of Fiscal Austerity

  The Quebec Liberals and their supporters in the news media are relying on familiar and simplistic arguments regarding the need for fiscal austerity in the province. While budget cuts will harm (…)
• 4 May 2015, by Noah Sutton and Sophia Reuss

  Austerity and Environment: Interview

  Roger Rashi is a long-time social and political activist from Montreal. He now works as Campaigns Coordinator for Alternatives. Since the fall of 2011, Roger was involved in organizing the Peoples (…)
• 4 May 2015, by Aditya Adhikari

  Watching A City Crumble

  A first person account of the earthquake and its aftershocks in Kathmandu. In the evening of April 25, the day that the 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, I stood on the roof of my house (…)
• 4 May 2015, by Asad Zaidi

  Radical Storyteller

  Six years ago, at the Summit of the Americas, Hugo Chavez, sprung a surprise on the unsuspecting Barack Obama by presenting him, with great fanfare, a copy of the original Spanish edition of Open (…)
• 4 April 2015

  People United Will Never Be Defeated!

  Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly World Social Forum 2015 Tunisia, 27 March 2015 The Social Movements Assembly of the WSF 2015, Tunisia is the place where we come together through (…)
• 4 April 2015, by Gideon Levy

  Netanyahu Deserves the Israeli People, and They Deserve Him

  The first conclusion that arose just minutes after the announcement of the exit polls was particularly discouraging: The nation must be replaced. Not another election for the country’s leadership, (…)
• 4 April 2015, by Paul Weinberg

  Bill C-51 Wants You to Stop Protesting in Support of Palestinians

  One of the less discussed questions of the Harper government’s anti-terror bill, Bill C-51, is whether Palestinian rights advocates and advocates of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) will be (…)
• 4 April 2015, by Pablo Solón

  Behind the Climate Negotiating Text for COP21

  The future lies in the past. What has happened will determine what will come. The idea that we can change everything and save the world at the last minute is exciting in movies but it does not (…)
• 4 April 2015, by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

  Quebec Police Don’t Live in a Bubble

  When faced with a symbolically criminalized enemy, there’s only one possible attitude: all-out war. Last Thursday, a police officer from the Service de police de la ville de Québec (SPVQ) shot (…)
• 4 April 2015, by Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos

  Syriza’s Only Choice: A Radical Step Forward

  “One must know how to employ the kairos [right or opportune moment] of one’s forces at the right moment. It is easy to only lose a little, if one always keeps foremost in the mind the idea that (…)
• 4 April 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan

  Free Speech, Fearless Listening and Fair Trial

  How India’s Daughter has led to a bonfire of free speech Free speech is not about raging at the walls of an empty room. It also involves the right to be heard. And this freedom could (…)
• 4 April 2015, by Immanuel Wallerstein

  Antisystemic Movements and the Future of Capitalism

  Unrevised version of talk at 39th Annual Meeting of the Political Economy of the World-System Conference, Berlin, Mar. 2015. The antisystemic movements now find themselves in the midst of a (…)
• 4 April 2015, by SACW

  Daya Varma (1929-2015)

  Dr. Daya Varma, life-long communist, scientist, activist, dreamer, pharmacologist, professor emeritus at McGill University, Montreal, passed away on 22 March 2015 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Praful Bidwai

  India: From a Politics of Hatred to a Politics of Hope

  The Aam Aadmi Party has accomplished a stupendous political feat in India’s capital. Not only has it won more than half the total vote and 95 percent of all seats, which even the luckiest of (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Stefan Christoff

  A Surveillance Society And Criminalize Dissent

  New ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation proposed by the Conservative government, Bill C-51, is a clear assault on free expression, creating an extensive legal framework for state authorities to (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Terrorism on Both Sides of the Mediterranean

  On 6 February 2013, the Tunisian leftist leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead. Belaid had been very critical of the Islamist-led troika government and of violence perpetrated by radical Islamists. (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Prashant Bhushan

  Terrorizing Teesta Setalvad

  The case of Teesta Setalvad is a chilling example of what can still happen to even highly acclaimed and well connected persons in this country if they take on those in authority The case of (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Palestinian BDS National Committee

  Disinformation and Repression Against BDS

  Palestinian Civil Society Condemns Canadian Government Disinformation and Repression Against Boycott Movement The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Uri Avnery

  The Casino Republic

  Who is the ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Biyamin Netayahu, of course. WRONG. The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Grist staff

  Why Low Oil Prices Could be a Great Thing

  May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, recently interviewed Naomi Klein, activist and author of the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (and a 350 board member), as part of (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Costas Douzinas

  Syriza: The Greek Spring

  The 2015 Greek elections mark the beginning of the end of a cycle that started in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are now witnessing the end of the "end of history" metanarrative. (…)
• 1 March 2015, by Bernard Dreano

  Letter from Paris

  My friends and I, either in the past or more recently, all had some kind of personal and/or activist link with people among the victims... Dear Friends, As you know the terrorists killed 17 (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Stathis Kouvelakis

  After Syriza’s Victory, Confrontation or Capitulation

  Syriza’s Stathis Kouvelakis on why his party fell short of an absolute majority and the choices that lie ahead. Syriza’s electoral triumph has brought hope to the European radical left and (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Glenn Greenwald

  Free Speech for Western Apologists Only

  France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Praful Bidwai

  Did Obama Legitimize Extremist Violence With His Visit to India?

  The president roped once-non-aligned India into a strategic alliance, but only by bolstering the Modi government, with its religious intolerance and pro-corporate policies. The combination (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Mustafa Caglayan

  Norman Finkelstein: Charlie Hebdo is Sadism, not Satire

  World renowned political science professor says he has ’no sympathy’ for staff at Charlie Hebdo In Nazi Germany, there was an anti-Semitic weekly newspaper called Der Stürmer. Run by Julius (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan

  Hand in Hand?

  India inhabits a complex part of the geopolitical map, where the simple binaries of us and them break down, especially for the US The sole Indian journalist called on to address a question to (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Women’s Empowerment: The Text and the Practice

  Tunisia could pride itself on drafting the most advanced code of personal status in the region, forbidding polygamy, legalizing divorce, establishing equality between partners in the choice of the (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Medea Benjamin

  Flogging for Blogging?

  The U.S. government continues to turn a blind eye to the medieval forms of torture meted out by its Saudi allies. On January 9, two days after the massive Paris march condemning the brutal (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Harsh Kapoor

  Long Live Charlie Hebdo!

  A letter to the left leaning in wake of Charlie Hebdo shootings of January 2015 The January 2015 terror attack on the Paris satirical weekly and its gross misinterpretation by people of Left (…)
• 1 February 2015, by Leo Panitch

  The Greek Election

  As we enter the eighth year of the long-lingering global economic crisis, it is sobering indeed that it is only in Greece that a political party putting forward a clear, radical democratic (…)
• 1 January 2015, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  It Wasn’t The Final Atrocity

  THE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event (…)
• 1 January 2015, by Ajmal Kamal

  Litfests and Bookfairs – Two Worlds?

  If you have attended this year the two events that mark the pinnacle of Karachi’s book culture – the Karachi Literature Festival and the Karachi International Book Fair – you may have noticed that (…)
• 1 January 2015, by Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly

  Staring Down a Precipice

  Lima ignored the urgent need to address climate change. They came, they talked, and they almost failed. That seems to be the trajectory of most of the conferences on climate change held under (…)
• 1 January 2015, by John Feffer

  Carrots for Cuba, Sticks for North Korea

  As one cold war thaws, another refreezes. Cuba and North Korea share a great deal in common. They are both led by dynastic rulers. They retain their nominal affiliation to revolutionary (…)
• 1 January 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Tunisia: The Third Option For The Region

  Despite hardships and breaches that marred the electoral campaign depriving scores of citizens, mainly outside the country, from their right to vote, the electoral process was rather successful. (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Vacy Vlazna

  Merkel’s Wall Of Hypocrisy

  "The Berlin Wall, this symbol of state abuse cast in concrete, took millions of people to the limits of what is tolerable, and all too many beyond it.” On the 25th anniversary of the fall of (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  Why Does Malala Yusufzai’s Nobel Bother So Many On The Left?

  Arundhati Roy’s charm and lucidity have iconized her in the world of left-wing politics. But, asked by Laura Flanders what she made of the 2014 Nobel Prize, she appeared to beswallowing a live (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Praful Bidwai

  Why The Right To Dissent Is Indispensable: Romila Thapar Speaks Out

  When Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani famously said of the media during the Emergency that “when asked to bend, they crawled”, he received widespread praise from the intelligentsia and even (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Charlotte María Sáenz

  Mexico’s Undead Rise Up

  With 43 disappeared student teachers presumed dead, Mexican popular resistance is creating new alternatives to the militarized narco-state. “Alive they were taken, and alive we want them (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Emran Feroz

  US Journalist Blumenthal Sees Similarity in Islamic State And Israel

  STUTTGART: When Gaza was attacked during the summer, Angela Merkel promised to “stand by the side of Israel.” The German chancellor has done much more than offer verbal support for Israel’s (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Immanuel Wallerstein

  "NATO: Danger to World Peace"

  The official mythology is that between 1945 (or 1946) and 1989 (or 1991), the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) confronted each other continuously - politically, militarily, and above all (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Shiv Visvanathan

  Poetics of a Nation: Remembering Nehru

  Jawaharlal Nehru cannot be seen merely as an object of history, a fragment of policy. He was a dream, a hope, a claim to innocence, an aesthetic, which gave to modernity a touch of elegance (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Immanuel Wallerstein

  "Syria: Turkish Ambivalence"

  Amid the many and ever-evolving shifts of policies and geopolitical alliances in the various countries of the Middle East, one used to be at least sure what are the prime objectives of the major (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Fr. Cedric Prakash sj

  The Nanavati Commission: Another Hoax On The People Of India!

  Finally, yesterday (November 18th 2014), exactly 12 years 8 months and 12 days after it was first constituted by the Gujarat Government on March 6th 2002 to probe the burning of the Godhra train (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Eli Aminov

  Israel’s Nation State Law: Jewish Sharia

  The nation state law currently proposed by the government is yet another signal to Israel’s Palestinian citizens: Israel is for Jews! Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government are currently (…)
• 1 December 2014, by Michelle Weinroth

  In Memoriam: Jeanette (née Epstein) Weinroth: June 18, 1929 – October 18, 2014

  "Let me not forget that I am the daughter of a woman who herself … never ceased to flower, untiringly, during three quarters of a century." Sidonie Colette A widely recognized public voice in (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Matthew Behrens

  Reflections on a Violent Day in Ottawa

  I often find it hard to feel empathy for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. But when I saw the grim picture of him talking on the phone following the end of his confinement in the locked down House of (…)
• 2 November 2014, by John Feffer

  Recognizing Palestine

  As more European governments line up to recognize a Palestinian state, Israel (and the U.S.) look more isolated than ever. In his recent meeting with President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Murray Dobbin

  From Israel to ISIS: Harper’s ‘Orwellian’ Foreign Policy

  It’s getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations. But we should (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Jawed Naqvi

  Have Indian Intellectuals Been Co-opted?

  Increasingly of late, Prof Romila Thapar is required to assume the nearly impossible role of Emperor Akbar, who, according to the official plaque at his tomb near Agra, had “created a nation out (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Stefan Christoff

  Gunmen in Ottawa : Questioning Canadian militarism

  Only minutes after shots rang outinside Canada’s parliament buildings and on the streets of Ottawa today, mainstream media quickly launched into fear-driven reporting, largely failing to look (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Michel Warschawski

  Unilateralism and Chutzpah

  The word ’chutzpah’ cannot be translated into English. As an essential part of human behaviour, however, it has entered the daily language of many East Coast Americans or, more precisely, in its (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Gustave Massiah

  The Movement’s Strategic Challenges

  Since the publication of Une stratégie altermondialiste, history has shifted into high gear. We can say that the hypotheses and proposals of the book have been confirmed, together with their (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Sergio Yahni

  Israel: First Gaza, Now Jerusalem

  Just like against the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched an offensive against Jerusalem. And just like in the 1980’s under General Ariel Sharon, Israel is attempting to re-engineer Middle East (…)
• 2 November 2014, by Idil isse

  Glenn Greenwald in Montreal

  This past month, Glenn Greenwald stopped by Montreal on his Canadian speaking tour. The Concordia University event was a fundraiser for the Freedom of the Press Foundation and began with a trailer (…)
• 1 October 2014

  Russell Tribunal on Palestine

  “The Gaza War (2014) under International Law: An Inquiry into Israel’s Crimes, Responsibility and the Response of the International Community” Extraordinary Session Brussels, 25 September 2014 (…)
• 1 October 2014, by George Monbiot

  Bomb Everyone

  Humanitarian arguments, if consistently applied, could be used to flatten the entire Middle East Let’s bomb the Muslim world – all of it – to save the lives of its people. Surely this is the (…)
• 1 October 2014, by Pablo Solon

  How Did Leaders Respond to the People’s Climate March?

  About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by (…)
• 1 October 2014, by Tariq Dana

  The Misery of Palestinian Unity

  Contrary to some optimistic expectations about positive internal political changes stemming from the recent Israeli war on Gaza, intra-Palestinian division continues to define and fragment the (…)
• 1 October 2014, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  How TV Promoted Terrorism In Pakistan

  IF today, with remote in hand, you randomly flip through channels on your TV, or browse through nearly two dozen online newspapers, you will see video clips or photos of Pakistan Air Force jets (…)
• 1 October 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani

  A Flawed Education System Could Jeopardize Democracy

  “Young people must take it upon themselves to ensure that they receive the highest education so that they can represent us in the future.” Nelson Mandela The Tunisian Forum for Economic and (…)
• 1 September 2014, by Michel LAMBERT

  Peoples’ Social Forum 2014 and Beyond

  Much has been said, for the most part very positive, about the incredible Peoples’ Social Forum, which took place from August 21st to 24th in Ottawa. Naomi Klein’s comment during her opening (…)
• 1 September 2014, by Miriam Katawazi

  Peoples’ Social Forum: 500 Workshops, 19 Assemblies, 5,000 Voices and a Declaration

  After the Peoples’ Social Forum (PSF) ended this weekend, tents at the University of Ottawa were left empty. Booths covered with art and information that lined the once busy streets had (…)
• 1 September 2014, by Alternative Information Center (AIC)

  Palestinians support resistance in post-Gaza reality

  This growing Palestinian support for resistance as the recent Gaza conflict evolved demonstrates the failure of Israeli tactics, which targeted Gaza’s civilian population in order to weaken Hamas. (…)
• 1 September 2014, by Elizabeth Austwick

  Israel Ramps up Pressure on PFLP

  Following Tuesday morning’s detention of 12 leaders from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the party has declared that Israel is conducting a clear campaign against it. (…)
• 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 (…)
• 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 (…)
• 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 (…)
• 1 July 2014, by Rick Staggenborg

  We Are All Palestinians Now- A Review Of Max Blumenthal’s Goliath

  Jewish American reporter Max Blumenthal’s latest book is a must-read for anyone struggling to understand why Jewish Israelis support ultimately self-destructive policies of their government. While (…)
• 1 July 2014, by ICSSI

  A Voice From Inside Mosul

  Interview by the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), with an Iraqi human rights defender (“QC”) from Mosul – the 18th of June 2014 What is the situation now in the city of (…)
• 1 May 2014, by Siddharth Varadarajan

  The Cult of Cronyism

  Who does Narendra Modi represent and what does his rise in Indian politics signify? Given the burden he carries of the 2002 anti-Muslim massacres, it is tempting to see the Gujarat chief (…)
• 1 May 2014, by Siddharth Varadarajan

  What Money Can Buy

  Should we worry that Modi may be spending as much on advertising as Obama spent on his entire 2012 campaign? The 2014 election is a reminder of the one big loophole in India’s election rules (…)
• 1 May 2014, by C.P. Chandrasekhar

  Modi & Constraints Of Democracy

  If India is not to be handed over to big business and a rabidly communal fringe, it is best to keep Narendra Modi out of the Prime Minister’s Office. ELECTIONS 2014 are remarkable for a number (…)
• 1 May 2014, by Harsh Kapoor

  India: Big Business Taking Over Will be Undoing of Democracy

  The run-up to the 2014 general elections in India has been an unprecedented demonstration of the massive infusion of money in electoral campaigning. A veritable carpet-bombing of India’s voters (…)