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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 – (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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: (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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. (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
1 November 2016
Women Resist Militarization, Occupation And Wars Of Aggression!
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women As we approach the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we are reminded that the greatest form of (...) -
1 November 2016, by Pritam Singh
Nurture Artistic & Academic Freedom
Let the sons and daughters of Haryana develop as a hundred flowers bloom. Universities must support creative endeavour to enable cultural renaissance and human development. I have had a soft (...) -
4 October 2016, by Jeremy Wildeman
Canadian Government and Political Party suppression of Palestinian Rights
Elizabeth May’s recent crackdown on her own Green Party membership over its support for Palestinian human rights parallels mainstream oppression by Canada’s other political parties against (...) -
4 October 2016, by I.A. Rehman
Should We Rethink Kashmir?
PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has perhaps done all that he could to draw the international community’s attention to the Kashmiri people’s ordeal. He and members of his large entourage spoke of (...) -
4 October 2016, by Sukumar Muralidharan
When Media Fantasies Collide With Strategic Realities
An army of newsroom warriors used the Uri attack to create one illusion after another Security anxieties spiked after the September 18 suicide attack on an army post near Uri in northern (...) -
4 October 2016, by Aiyanas Ormond
Duterte, the Drug War and Prospects for Peace in the Philippines
Since his swearing in as President of the Republic of the Philippines on the 30th of June, Rodrigo Duterte has been dominating headlines. Most recently, Duterte’s war on drug sellers and users, (...) -
4 October 2016, by Nada Elia
Honor Edward Said’s Legacy by Supporting BDS
September 25, 2016 marked the thirteenth anniversary of the passing of Professor Edward Said, one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, and a political icon for anyone (...) -
4 October 2016, by Tapan Bose
Modi’s Newfound Interest in Balochistan: Why India Could Be on a Sticky Wicket
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s declared that his government would highlight the violation of Baloch people’s human rights by Pakistan, it was welcomed by Baloch nationalists. The (...) -
4 October 2016, by Moroccan Climate Justice Coalition
The Casablanca Declaration
Record-breaking temperatures month after month, a succession of cyclones, hurricanes, floods, forest fires and debilitating droughts remind us that climate change is a reality which already (...) -
4 October 2016, by Pritam Singh
Let Us Not Lose Sight of Cost of Escalation
Reducing India-Pak tensions is a historic necessity. Regions far from the borders can afford to play warmongering games, but the border regions would be devastated in both countries if war (...) -
6 September 2016, by Tapan Bose
Why Kashmiris Don’t Trust India
I have been reading op-ed page articles about the current agitation being led by Kashmiri youth who have grown up under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). While most of these articles (...) -
6 September 2016, by Sophia Reuss
Beyond ‘Green’ Jobs
The World Social Forum drew to a close on August 15 after a hectic week of over 1,500 self-managed committees, a handful of star-studded keynote panels, creative actions, demonstrations and (...) -
6 September 2016, by Yusur Al Bahrani
The Omrans of Yemen
The ash-covered child seemed terrified. Omran Daqneesh was not crying as the medical worker carried him to the back of an ambulance. In shock, the boy was sitting on the orange chair. For weeks, (...) -
6 September 2016, by Taha Öztürk
Reflections on The Turkish Coup
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X Throughout history, rulers (...) -
6 September 2016, by Pritam Singh
IMF’s Autocritique of Neo-liberalism?
In a recent article published in Finance and Development, an International Monetary Fund magazine, three economists have critically evaluated the policies the IMF promotes. They acknowledge (...) -
6 September 2016, by ICSSI
Third Iraqi Social Forum
September 22-24, 2016 Baghdad Why the ISF? Within the difficult situation Iraq is going through, the war against Daesh, the terrorist organization, and its impact of millions of Iraqi (...) -
1 August 2016, by Samia Constantin
Shia in Saudi Arabia: A History of Discrimination, Oppression
The relationship between Saudi Sunni and Shia has always been characterized by conflict. Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia are a minority group that account for 10 to 15 percent of the population in (...) -
1 August 2016, by Yusur Al Bahrani
I Am Human
The aroma of hookah smoke pierces the air and finds its way to me as I walk down one of Amman’s most traditional streets in Al-Balad, or Down Town. I follow a smell that leads me to stairs. (...) -
1 August 2016, by Chelsea Barnett
In Defence of Sympathy: VR, Empathy, and Real-World Storytelling
From July 15th to 17th, TIFF Bell Lightbox showcased a virtual reality (VR) exhibition entitled POP 02: VR + Empathy + Real-World Storytelling. It was the second in a three-part immersive media (...) -
1 August 2016, by Ronald Cameron
WSF in Montreal and the Relevance of the Social Forum Process
The first World Social Forum (WSF) to take place in a Northern Country will be held in few weeks in Montreal, from August 9 to 14. Most of the programming is now set on the eve of its holding. (...) -
1 August 2016, by Jooneed Khan
Turkey Between Two Fascisms
In Turkey, where the attempted coup failed and arms went silent after 24 hours of clashes and killings, civilian fascism has won over military fascism – even as both competed to project each (...) -
1 August 2016, by Peoples’ Democratic Party
The Way Out of This Crisis is not Declaring State of Emergency, but Democracy
Five days after the coup attempt on 15th of July, the NSC and Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in the country. This step shows the coup attempt might have been blocked, but the (...) -
1 August 2016, by Ilan Pappe
Why Brexit May Be Palestine’s Gain
The British referendum on membership in the European Union on 23 June has exposed deep layers of racism and xenophobia in the United Kingdom and raises serious concerns about the welfare of (...) -
1 August 2016, by Sukumar Muralidharan
War of the Worlds
The IS claim of a new caliphate would be laughable but for troubling resonances with Turkey’s ambitions A killer truck ploughed through a festive crowd in the French Riviera town of Nice on (...) -
1 August 2016, by Saib Bilaval
“You Can Have Your Weak Nominee If You Wish”
Ultimately, what the Sanders endorsement has proved is what the candidate was arguing from the beginning – that it was not Sanders and his campaign that was holding Hillary Clinton’s poll (...) -
1 August 2016, by Benoit Renaud
A March For Our Rivers And Against Pipelines
Stop oléoduc Outaouais (Outaouais against the pipeline) is organizing a march to protect our rivers and the climate, starting on August 14, in Saint-André d’Argenteuil, a small town (...) -
8 July 2016, by Malcolm Guy
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte: A Socialist in Disguise?
Time magazine called him "the punisher" while other publications refer to him as “Duterte Harry”, the Trump of the Philippines, or a “dictator in waiting”. I feel compelled by the somewhat (...) -
4 July 2016, by Sophia Reuss
An Interview with Ali Abunimah: BDS and Palestinian Solidarity
Ali Abunimah is a prominent Palestinian-American activist and journalist. Abunimah is the Vice-President on the Board of Directors of the Arab American Action Network, a fellow at the Palestine (...) -
4 July 2016, by Samia Constantin
“I Am a Victim of Injustice”: Dilma Rousseff and Sexism in Brazilian Politics
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff faces an impeachment trial after accusations of burying an important budget deficit to guarantee her re-election in 2014 sparked massive public outrage. The (...) -
4 July 2016, by Kyle Jacques
What Hillary and Trump’s Foreign Policies Have in Common
Hillary Clinton’s major speech on foreign policy was surely a disappointment for anyone who wanted to hear about, well, foreign policy. Take away the many digs at Donald Trump and the many (...) -
4 July 2016, by Catherine Larouche
The Other Side of The War on Terror: False Terror Charges Against Muslim Youth in India
I first met Mohammed Aamir Khan in the office of Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD), a Delhi-based organization working on communal harmony and human rights, in which he was formerly (...) -
4 July 2016, by Dylan Boyko
The Results that We Got: The Contradictions of American Gun Violence
There is a problem in America with the economics of safety. Early in Evan Osnos’ stunning New Yorker article on the subtle proliferation of gun ownership and gun discourse in America, he quotes (...) -
4 July 2016, by Messaoud Romdhani
Torture: Legislations and Reality
« To combat torture without compromise, we need to know our major opponent: the dark side of our humanity.” Serge Portelli, Why torture A few weeks after the Assembly of People’s (...) -
4 July 2016, by Jooneed J Khan
In Dedication to Amjad Sabri & All Qawwals
Qawwalis can be deadly. Case in point: the assassination of Pakistani Qawwal Amjad Sabri, brought down June 22 in a hail of bullets fired by two gunmen on a motor-bike as he drove with a friend (...) -
4 July 2016, by Voices-Voix
BDS in Canada
What Happened On February 22, 2016, the House of Commons passed a Conservative motion to “reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement” and “call upon the government to condemn (...) -
2 June 2016, by Dylan Boyko
Who Drives the Story: The Panama Papers and Narrative Control
The Panama Papers may prove to be the single most important leak in a new era of data-driven activism. Delivered by an unnamed source to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, and investigated (...) -
2 June 2016, by Samia Constantin
The Legacy of LuxLeaks: Whistleblowers, Privacy and European Law
Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employee, attracted international attention on illegal tax agreements between Luxembourg authorities and multinational corporations by (...) -
2 June 2016, by Katrina Gibbs
The Violence of Intolerance: Bangladeshi LGBT Activist Murdered
The latest in a series of chilling murders in Bangladesh has been the death of Xulhaz Mannan on April 25 in Dhaka. The murder of Xulhaz Mannan and his friend and fellow activist Tonoy Mahbub (...) -
2 June 2016, by Sophia Reuss
Lubicon Lake Nation Demands Action, Justice For Ongoing Discrimination And Exploitation
On Wednesday May 18, Lubicon Lake Nation Chief Bernard Ominayak met with Alberta’s Indigenous Relations Minister, Richard Feehan, following the Nation’s recent human rights complaints. In a (...) -
2 June 2016, by Zoë Wilkins
Fort Mcmurray Forest Fire Displaces Temporary Foreign Workers
80,000 people were evacuated from Fort McMurray during and following the forest fire that ravaged the city last month. Among these 80,000 were hundreds of temporary foreign workers, who have (...) -
2 June 2016, by Katrina Gibbs
Resisting Modi: In Conversation with Noor Zaheer
In the midst of the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) elections in India, activist Noor Zaheer gave a talk at Alternatives on May 12 entitled ‘Nationalism and Intolerance in India Today’. (...) -
2 June 2016, by Medea Benjamin
Israel and Saudi Arabia: Strange Bedfellows in the New Middle East
Israel and Saudi Arabia are burying the hatchet. For at least 10 reasons, that’s not such a good idea. On the surface, it would seem that Saudi Arabia and Israel would be the worst of (...) -
2 June 2016, by Patrick Bond
Imperialism’s Junior Partners
On May 12, Brazil’s democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa) do? Will they (...) -
6 May 2016, by Katrina Gibbs
Bernie Sanders and the Awakening of the American Left
On Thursday, April 14th, a conference was held by Donald Cuccioletta on Bernie Sanders: Le Réveil de la Gauche Américaine. The talk focused on an analysis of the phenomenon of Bernie Sanders and (...) -
6 May 2016, by Dylan Boyko
Fighting Against the Bureaucratic Tide
The problem posed by the current refugee crisis in Turkey, Greece, and much of Europe is, on one hand, an economic and political morass and, on the other hand, a very simple human crisis. There (...) -
6 May 2016, by ICSSI
The Iraqi Intifada, a Weekend of Popular Nonviolent Uprising
On the 1st of May 2016, Baghdad looked much safer, without separation walls between the government and the Iraqi people. Those concrete walls built to protect politicians in the Green Zone, to (...) -
6 May 2016, by Michel Warschawski
Gideon Levi: BDS-The Only Way
BDS is progressing, even within Israeli society. Two of my good friends, Uri Avnery and Gideon Levi, used to argue against the efficiency of this strategy, claiming its sole result would be to (...) -
6 May 2016, by Mansoor Raza
On Death’s Door: Trade Unions in Pakistan
At an estimated 63.34 million workers in total, Pakistan has the 10th largest labour force in the world. Besides federations and confederations, there are 945 trade unions currently active in (...) -
6 May 2016, by John Hilary
End For TTIP?
The documents show that US corporations will be granted unprecedented powers over any new public health or safety regulations to be introduced in future. If any European government does dare to (...) -
6 May 2016, by Jakob Reimann
One Last Chance for Peace in Yemen
On the night of January 5, a squadron of F-15 fighter jets from the Royal Saudi Air Force carpet-bombed a neighborhood in the densely populated Yemeni capital of Sanaa. Following the assault, (...) -
6 May 2016, by Josh Hoxie
Wealthy Americans Don’t Have to Go to Panama to Hide Their Wealth
The first thing you notice on the cab ride from the airport to downtown Panama City is the skyscrapers. They’re architecturally beautiful, but jumbled together as if there was no plan or (...) -
6 May 2016, by Monojit Majumdar
What the ‘Revolutionary Terrorism’ of Bhagat Singh Really Means
There has been uproar in Indian Parliament over the alleged reference to Bhagat Singh as a ‘terrorist’ in a well known book, the sale and distribution of whose Hindi version has been stopped by (...) -
1 April 2016, by Sophia Reuss
The Murder of Berta Caceres and American Foreign Policy
Tourists, government employees, and people strolling through downtown Washington D.C. last week likely noticed two large banners outside the buildings at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. One (...) -
1 April 2016, by Katrina Gibbs
Rifts, Racism, and Refugees: The German Elections and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Reactions to the refugee crisis have varied throughout Europe, and have led to a particularly polarized political landscape in Germany. As is well known, Germany has become one of the epicenters (...) -
1 April 2016, by Messaoud Romdhani
Democracy and Corruption
“Corruption is much the way Mark Twain once described the weather: everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, CIPE One third (...) -
1 April 2016, by Dylan Boyko
USA Elections 2016: Violence and Currents and Why We Should Worry
When we think of Donald Trump, and the possibility of violence that comes with his candidacy, we might be thinking of what a normal American is and isn’t. What we (the collective we that (...) -
1 April 2016, by Frank Barat
Brussels: March 22, 2016
The second day of Spring in my hometown, Brussels, started like any other day. I took the kids to school and nursery this morning, then went to work. Or, rather, came back home, where most of my (...) -
1 April 2016, by Vijay Prashad
Brazil’s Summer of Discontent
What is striking about the protests in Brazil against the Rousseff government is that these are not coming mainly from the slums or the industrial working class. They mark the collective hatred (...) -
1 April 2016, by Harsh Mander
Can An Indian Spring Be Far Behind?
The past winter months in India were grimly overcast, with gathering dark clouds. A deeply divisive manufactured binary sought to pit youthful idealism and dissent against love for the country. (...) -
1 April 2016, by Sukumar Muralidharan
Rule of Law in Trauma
An account of 14 years spent in the darkest recesses of the Indian penal system, Mohammad Aamir Khan’s book is a searing indictment of what passes for terror investigations Terrorism is a (...) -
1 April 2016, by Bruno Kern
Eco-Socialism or Barbarism-11 Theses
1. The history of capitalism has always been also the history of its crises. This has been so because of its self-contradictory nature, which by itself generates crises and undermines its own (...) -
2 March 2016, by Sophia Reuss
“The People of Rojava are Staging a Social Revolution”
Dimitri Roussopoulos, a Montreal-based political activist, writer, editor, publisher, and community organizer, was a member of an International Peace Delegation that visited Istanbul, Turkey (...)