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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 (…) -
1 May 2014, by Jim Shultz
To My Friend the Climate Defeatist: Here’s Why I’m Still In the Fight
It is good to mourn for what’s being lost. But giving up just gives the fossil fuel industry what it wants. My English friend Paul Kingsnorth was the subject of a long article two weeks ago in (…) -
1 May 2014, by Amira Hass
Palestinian Reconciliation: Real Unity, or Tactic?
While the Hamas and PLO delegations in Gaza were preparing to declare reconciliation on Wednesday, in Ramallah the diplomatic business of the “state of Palestine” was proceeding as usual. (…) -
1 May 2014, by Vacy Vlazna
The Signing of the Palestinian Spring
At the low point of the farcical ‘peace’ process stalemate, President Mahmoud Abbas signed, on Tuesday 1st April 2014, letters of accession to 15 multilateral treaties and conventions, (a right (…) -
1 May 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani
Tunisia: Impunity After 14 January 2014
The 23 October 2011 National Constituent Assembly elections was meant to entrench the democratic process that had been set in train-not without difficulties and hesitations- in the aftermath of (…) -
1 May 2014, by Barak Ravid
Palestinian Reconciliation is an Opportunity for Israel
Mere minutes after first reports of a breakthrough in the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation talks on ending a seven-year rift began to emerge, the prime minister’s bureau launched a broadside attack on (…) -
1 May 2014, by Chris Gilbert
Gabriel García Márquez and the Coming-into-Being of Latin America
One of the greatest Latin American authors, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, died last Thursday. As with any writer whose work becomes a mass culture phenomenon, his work is also the (…) -
1 May 2014, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Solitude Of Latin America
The full text of the Nobel lecture delivered on December 8, 1982 by the Colombian great who’s died at his home in Mexico City on April 17, 2014 Antonio Pigafetta, a Florentine navigator who (…) -
1 April 2014, by Roger Rashi
2014 People’s Social Forum Takes Aim At Austerity And The Right
The first ever pan-Canadian social forum will be held this year in Ottawa from August 21 to 24. More than 10,000 participants from all over Canada are expected to come to the University of Ottawa (…) -
1 April 2014, by Nadim Nashif
Palestinians Must Resist Israel’s Efforts To Foment Sectarianism
On 24 February, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved a controversial law aimed at de-Arabizing Palestinian Christians. The new law identifies them as a non-Arab minority group. The (…) -
1 April 2014, by Gideon Levy
The Western Devil Wears Prada
The annexation of Crimea may be problematic, but it is less problematic than the occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel. Saddam Hussein has already been executed, and so has (…) -
1 April 2014, by Meg Borthwick
Harper Government Attacks Non-Profits To Muzzle Dissent
When you donate to a Canadian non-profit organization, with or without charitable status, did you know that your donor dollars may be used in the latest attack by the Harper government against its (…) -
1 April 2014, by Roger Waters
Why I Must Speak Out On Israel, Palestine And BDS
After more than two decades of negotiations, the vulnerable Palestinian population still lives under occupation, while more land is taken, more illegal settlements built, and more Palestinians are (…) -
1 April 2014, by Gideon Levy
Israel’s Nation-State Talk Means the Return of The Yellow Star
Israelis are judging people by their ancestors and withdrawing into a ghetto-state whose nature will be determined by its purity. This kind of talk could only take place in darkness; in beer (…) -
1 April 2014, by Tariq Ali
How Vladimir Putin Became Evil
The US and UK condemn him for Crimea but supported him over the war in Chechnya. Why? Because now he refuses to play ball. Once again, it seems that Russia and the United States are finding it (…) -
1 March 2014, by Bradley Castelli
Exhausting Means of Resolution in Syria
Many were relieved when Western powers relented in their haste to intervene militarily in Syria back in September 2013. It was a chemical attack just outside of Damascus that served as the tipping (…) -
1 March 2014, by John Feffer
Ukraine: Out of the Frying Pan
The very fact that Ukrainian protesters can oust their leader and plunge their country into political uncertainty testifies to the diminished influence of the major international players trying to (…) -
1 March 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani
The New Constitution: The Text and the Old Biases
After a delay of fifteen months and intense controversies between Islamists on the one hand, and other liberal groups and civil society associations on the other, over several issues such as, the (…) -
1 March 2014, by Naomi Klein
How Science is Telling us All to Revolt
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical (…) -
1 March 2014, by FRANK BARAT
Remembering Stéphane Hessel
Stephane Hessel, died a year ago today. I wrote this about him at the time, won’t change a word today. Mon cher Stéphane, Wherever you are, I know you are well and at peace. I am also (…) -
1 March 2014, by Ratna Kapur
Totalising History, Silencing Dissent
The agreement by Penguin Books India to destroy all existing copies of Wendy Doniger’s book represents the destruction of the very fabric of Indian culture The agreement by Penguin Books (…) -
1 February 2014, by Messaoud Romdhani
Three years after the Tunisian Revolution
14 January 2014 marked three years after ousting Ben Aly and his family and announcing the breakdown of the despotic regime under the pressure of an unprecedented insurrection that burst out in (…) -
1 February 2014, by Norman Finkelstein
A Time to Live, A Time to Die
I can’t remember my first Pete Seeger concert. But I do vividly recall that in my mid-20s I became a Pete Seeger groupie. I probably went to one of Pete’s concerts every month. He was (…) -
1 February 2014, by Omar Barghouti
Why the Boycott Movement Scares Israel
If Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to revive talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority fail because of Israel’s continuing construction of illegal settlements, the Israeli (…) -
1 February 2014, by Vijay Prashad
Scarlett Johansson is Right – The Face of Sodastream Doesn’t Fit With Oxfam
Thanks to the star’s involvement with the Israeli company, illegal settlement activity is under increased scrutiny Global charities seek global ambassadors to help them raise the profile of (…) -
1 February 2014, by Derrick O’Keefe
Why we need the Peoples’ Social Forum
Building toward the Peoples’ Social Forum There are many important ongoing political struggles that demand our attention and action in Canada. In some cases, the resistance is even dynamic and (…) -
1 February 2014, by Michel (Mikado) Warschawski
Israeli Leaders Worried About BDS Successes
"We are pleased to announce that the planned June 2014 "International Oral History Conference" being organized by Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been rendered a double blow with the withdrawal (…) -
1 February 2014, by Saba Naqvi
India: The Anarchy of Simple Living
For the first time in decades political pundits in India’s capital New Delhi are being compelled to take note of local politics in the city state as opposed to pontificating on the state of (…) -
1 January 2014, by Sam Noumoff
NELSON MANDELA – FROZEN ICON
Much has been written, and is still counting, about the iconic figure of Nelson Mandela. He has been portrayed as the quintessential symbol of a new non racist Africa, having endured the hardships (…) -
1 January 2014, by Ronald Cameron
People’s Social Forum in 2014 and the World Social Forum in 2016
While expressing support for the idea of eventually holding a World Social Forum (WSF) in Montreal, the board of Alternatives nonetheless spoke out against the project to hold one in 2015. This (…) -
1 January 2014, by FRANK BARAT
Israeli filmmaker Lia Tarachansky tells Frank...
Israeli filmmaker Lia Tarachansky tells Frank Barat about the challenges and rewards of making On The Side of the Road. Your film On The Side of the Road premiered in Tel Aviv on 28 November (…) -
1 January 2014, by Robin D. G. Kelley and Erica Lorraine Williams
Madiba in Palestine
Nelson Mandela’s death has produced both an outpouring of international solidarity, remembrance, and celebration commemorating Madiba’s leadership in defeating apartheid in South Africa. It has (…) -
1 January 2014, by Michel (Mikado) Warschawski
How Dare Israeli Leaders Mourn Mandela?
“Mandela was an exemplary figure of our era, and he will be remembered as a first class moral leader. He was a liberation fighter who rejected violence…” By these words, Israeli Prime Minister, (…) -
1 January 2014, by Edward Snowden
NSA Surveillance Is About Power, Not "Safety"
An open letter to the people of Brazil. This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn (…) -
1 January 2014, by FRANK BARAT
An Interview with Roger Waters
Frank Barat: When did you make the decision to make the Wall tour (that ended in Paris in September 2013) so political? And why did you dedicate the final concert to Jean-Charles De Menezes? (…) -
1 January 2014, by Donald Cuccioletta
Geo-Strategic Challenges in the United States and China Relationship
Current Sino-U.S. relations seem to be, as we progress into the second decade of the 21st century, in a holding pattern. This state of affairs leads some observers to believe, that this (…) -
1 December 2013, by Bradley Castelli
Iran: A Lesson in Diplomacy
It’s being hailed as a historic agreement by some and a historic mistake by others. Whatever hindsight may reveal, for now, Iran and a handful of world powers have come to an agreement to limit (…) -
1 December 2013, by Michel (Mikado) Warschawski
Netanyahu Against The Whole World
Western governments are fed up with the Israeli angry reactions to the agreement between them and the Iranian government. “It is done, and there is no way back”: this is the message they are (…) -
1 December 2013, by Zvi Bar’el
Iran’s Nuclear Program Has Already Achieved Its Goal
Here’s a new and tempting investment opportunity: The exchange rate of the Iranian rial jumped 2 percent in one day and it is expected that the currency, which lost over half of its value during (…) -
1 December 2013, by Pablo Solon
Moving Forward From the Climate Negotiation Madness in Warsaw
Since the beginning there was almost no expectations on the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Warsaw, (…) -
1 December 2013, by Michael Klare
Surviving Climate Change: Towards a Climate Revolution
A week after the most powerful “super typhoon” ever recorded pummeled the Philippines, killing thousands in a single province, and three weeks after the northern Chinese city of Harbin suffered a (…) -
1 December 2013, by Michel LAMBERT
In Front of Pipelines, I Will Support the Mohawks
With hundreds of others, I participated on November 16 in an unprecedented mobilization in Kanehsatà:ke (Oka), Mohawk Territory. Twenty-three years after the terrible Oka crisis, Mohawks this time (…) -
1 December 2013, by Idil Isse
Central African Republic: Retaliatory Violence Creating Atmosphere Of Insecurity
French foreign minister Laurent Fabius’ recent declaration that the Central African Republic (CAR) was “on the verge of genocide” brought some much needed attention to the ongoing conflict in the (…) -
1 December 2013, by Sergio Yahni
Israel Plays With Fire at Al Aqsa Compound
MK Miri Regev (Likud), chairwoman of the Knesset Interior Committee, instructed police on Monday to ensure that Jewish visitors to the Al Aqsa compound (Temple Mount) are able to visit the site (…) -
1 December 2013, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
I Am Malala: Book Review
How can one read this marvelous book and remain unmoved? It is a good-humored tale of grit, courage, and determination. A 14-year old girl, passionate about education being every child’s right, is (…) -
1 November 2013
Israel Guilty of Apartheid
Discussion on the Verdict of Russell Tribunal on Palestine With Frank Barat Coordinator of Russell Tribunal on Palestine Thursday 21 November 7 PM Alternatives 3720 avenue du (…) -
1 November 2013, by Bradley Castelli
US-Iran Rapprochement: Obama’s Lagacy?
Assuming leadership of a military and economic superpower is anything but easy, especially when the only real certainty in the matter is the fact that you can’t please all of the people all of the (…) -
1 November 2013, by Ian Smillie
How To Hijack An Aid Program
Dear Tony Abbott, The day after you led your Liberal/National Coalition to a landslide victory in September, you announced that AusAID, the Australian government’s aid agency, will be (…) -
1 November 2013, by Alain Deneault
The Canadian Mining Industry Has Now Targeted the European Market
By Alain Deneault, author, with William Sacher of "Paradise Under the Earth, How Canada Has Become a Hub for the Global Mining Industry," Montreal/Paris, Ecosociete/Rue de l’echiquier, 2012, and (…) -
1 November 2013, by Immanuel Wallerstein
Consequences of U.S. Decline
I have long argued that U.S. decline as a hegemonic power began circa 1970 and that a slow decline became a precipitate one during the presidency of George W. Bush. I first started writing about (…) -
1 November 2013, by Naomi Klein
How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical (…) -
1 October 2013, by Feroz Mehdi
Vinod Raina: A Personal Tribute
It is very difficult for me to believe that Vinod Raina is no more with us. Rarely I have come across a person with so much energy and drive. Four years ago he knew that he had cancer. In those (…) -
1 October 2013, by Bipasha Sultana
Gay Hate Over Gay Pride
The various global movements that have been sparked in defense of LGBTI rights during the past century can be charted according to a series of victories, including increasing decriminalization of (…) -
1 October 2013, by Bradley Castelli
Syria, Intervention and the Anti-war Movement
When Barack Obama first warned Syria that its use of chemical weapons would facilitate the US decision toward military intervention in the Syrian conflict, it almost seemed like the President was (…) -
1 October 2013, by Ailisha Macharia
Post-racial America
August 28, 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the Great March on Washington and notably, Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. This momentous occasion calls upon deep societal (…) -
1 October 2013, by Idil Isse
Fragile Progress: Somali Government Marks One Year in Office
Following an historic election on September 10, 2012, the current Somali government took ownership of one of the arguably most difficult set of circumstances a newly elected government could (…) -
1 October 2013, by Bipasha Sultana
Exploring the Responsibility of Our Privilege: On Independent Filmmaking, Ecological Crisis and Human Extinction with Filmmaker Bérangère Maïa N. Parizeau
Environmental catastrophes are scattered across the globe. As they vary in source, scale and impact and are sprouting at an unprecedented frequency, the contentious notion of climate catastrophe (…) -
1 October 2013, by Cameron Fenton
Why I’m Standing With First Nations to Stop Climate Change
This week, the fifth assessment report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change was released. Like the four before it, it confirms what we’ve known for decades, that climate change is (…) -
1 October 2013, by Amit Sengupta
Remembering Vinod Raina
Forty years back a young scholar with a fresh PhD in Physics from Delhi University took a train to Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh. It was to be a turning point in the life of Vinod Raina, for this (…) -
1 October 2013, by Billy Batware
Pakrac+20: A Post-war Revisit and Field Mission
On July 8 2013, I embarked on a trip to Croatia, a land of history and beauty at the Mediterranean Sea. I was on a post-war field mission to learn and experience first-hand what had happened (…) -
1 October 2013, by Nassar Ibrahim
Oslo Failed, Long Live Oslo
This September marks the twentieth anniversary of the Oslo Accords. The Oslo I Accord represented the most comprehensive first step in the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as it has (…) -
1 October 2013, by Levent Basturk
Norman G. Finkelstein is a well-known...
Norman G. Finkelstein is a well-known American writer of Jewish origin, and has gained particular recognition for his works on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He has replied the questions of the (…) -
1 September 2013, by Bradley Castelli
Syria and Western Intervention
The alleged August 21 chemical attack near Damascus might very well serve as the tipping point in the debate over Western intervention in Syria. The use of chemical weapons has justified the (…) -
1 September 2013, by Peter Certo
The Suffering Grasses: Remembering the Other Syria
Iara Lee’s "The Suffering Grasses" beautifully captures Syrians explaining their struggle in their own words, giving a place of privilege to those nonviolent activists whose voices have long been (…) -
1 September 2013, by Conn Hallinan
The Kurdish Moment: Opportunity and Peril
Turmoil in Iraq and Syria, along with political developments in Turkey, has created unprecedented opportunity for the Middle East’s long-suffering Kurds. For almost a century, the Kurds—one of (…) -
1 September 2013, by Uri Avnery
Poor Obama
POOR OBAMA. I pity him. Right at the start of his meeting with history, he made The Speech in Cairo. A great speech. An uplifting speech. An edifying speech. He talked to the educated youth (…) -
1 September 2013, by Rob Prince and Ibrahim Kazerooni
An Obama Attack on Syria Will Backfire
False Flag Operations for Dummies. While the US, UK and France (the old and the new colonial powers) debate their response to the suspected chemical weapons use in Syria, the Syrian government (…) -
1 September 2013, by Hans Blix
Even if Asad Used Chemical Weapons, the Wset has no Mandate to Act as a Global Policeman
George Bush, the then US president, waves to US navy personnel at Mayport Naval Station, in Jacksonville, Florida, 13 February 2003, after urging the United Nations to uphold its relevance by (…) -
1 September 2013, by Patrick Cockburn
Only a Peace Conference, Not Air Strikes, Can Stop Further Bloodshed
Governments in Washington, London and Paris should realise that in one respect the slaughter by chemical weapons of hundreds of people in Damascus on 21 August is an opportunity as well as a (…) -
1 August 2013, by Bipasha Sultana
Can a Moderate President Entail a Moderate Future for Iran?
Following the end of the presidential legacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during June 2013 elections, the Islamic Republic of Iran will welcome the moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani as its new president. (…) -
1 August 2013, by Bradley Castelli
Egypt and Democracy
Democracy is a fully loaded word, open to a broad spectrum of interpretations and used to justify what sometimes amounts to contradictory political realities. Indexes that rank countries by the (…) -
1 August 2013, by Kathryn Rockwell
Oil in Canada
The construction of the Keystone pipeline and the exploitation of the Alberta oil sands mark a drastic change in Canadian environmental policy. Once an example of moral leadership on ozone, clean (…) -
1 August 2013, by Bipasha Sultana
Academic Democracy and the Boycott of Israel: A Question of Ethics
Among the series of calls for academic boycott that have taken place in the past few years as a consequence to one of the most volatile geopolitical conflicts at present – Israel’s occupation of (…) -
1 August 2013, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu
Beyond Land Grabs: The Need for a New Approach
The controversy surrounding land grabbing in Africa has sparked debates worldwide, but according to Dr. Lorenzo Cotula, who is a researcher at the International Institute for Environment and (…) -
1 August 2013, by Kathryn Rockwell
"The administration is getting ever more...
"The administration is getting ever more angry and doing everything they can to break our hunger strike. Honestly, I wish I was dead." Judging from the harrowing Guardian interview with (…) -
1 August 2013, by Olivia Zeydler
Violence Begets Violence: Finding An Alternative Solution to the Maoist Insurgency
Agreements made between corporations and governments on natural resource extraction go further than economic ties, as they fundamentally affect the lives of the local people that live on the land. (…) -
2 July 2013, by Bradley Castelli
The Mussalaha International Peace Delegation to Syria
This past May the Mussalaha International Peace Delegation traveled to Lebanon and Syria to speak with Syrians immediately affected by the ongoing conflict, and to discuss the competing discourses (…) -
2 July 2013, by Suzanna Khoshabi
Whistleblowers: Heroes or Heretics?
One year ago this June, Julian Assange was granted political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. However, the anniversary of his stay at the embassy had to share headline space with Edward (…) -
2 July 2013, by Michael Sabelli
Turkey Protests
I love Istanbul. It’s a city without comparison. A city spread across two continents, a grandeur that is fitting of its culture, history and mega metropolis geography. I also love Turkey (…) -
2 July 2013, by Sta Kuzviwanza
Rapid HIV Self-Tests
According to the 2012 UNAID report on the AIDS epidemic, about 34 million people are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS – with 2.5 million new infections each year and 50 percent of those (…) -
2 July 2013, by Tariqa Tandon
The Palace of Illusions: A Book Review
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s bestselling novel, The Palace of Illusions, is an interpretation of the events of the Hindu epic Mahabharata through the lens of the woman married to the five Pandava (…) -
2 July 2013, by Steve Fake
When Will Dirty Wars End?
Director Rick Rowley and journalist Jeremy Scahill’s much talked about docu-thriller Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield opened on June 7 to strong positive reviews. A companion piece to (…) -
2 July 2013, by Jessica Newfield
Homosexuality in West African Countries
If the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (also known as the “Kill the gays”) proposed by Ugandan parliament member David Bahati in 2009, imposed the death penalty or life imprisonment of HIV-positive (…) -
2 July 2013, by Wendy Papakostandini
The Game Changer
“And the white smoke is out!” tweeted Vlora Citaku, Kosovo’s minister for European integration, “Habemus Pactum!” What Citaku was referring to was a deal struck this past April between the nations (…) -
2 June 2013, by Suzanna Khoshabi
Neo-Fascism: The Beginning of a New Chapter in Europe’s History?
Scattered across seven years, seven cities, and seven professions, nine of the victims of the ‘Doener murders’ had one thing in common: a shared status as immigrants in Germany. It took the (…) -
2 June 2013, by Kathryn Rockwell
Crossing the Line: Will the United States Intervene in Syria?
Despite its best efforts, the Obama administration is sliding down a slippery slope towards intervention in Syria. A humanitarian crisis that has cost between 80, 000 and 120, 000 lives, and (…) -
2 June 2013, by Bradley Castelli
Muslim Minorities in Myanmar and Sri Lanka
In the past year, tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have been rising in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Both states are home to minority Islamic ethnic groups that have forcibly assumed the role (…) -
2 June 2013, by Anne Guay
Kenyan Indemnities and Empire History
Last October, three Kenyan elders won the right to claim compensation for their torture in British colonial prison camps after bringing their cases to the London High Court. The scale is of an (…) -
2 June 2013, by Tariqa Tandon
National Food Security Bill Debated in Indian Parliament
India’s reports on hunger and malnutrition are abysmal. For a rapidly developing country, showing much promise for the future, it still remains a country with one of the highest rates of (…) -
2 June 2013, by Sta Kuzviwanza
The New Scramble for Global Farmland
A recent article in the Guardian UK reporting land evictions in Laos and Cambodia has brought to attention, once again, the recent phenomena of global land grabs by private investors in Asia, (…) -
2 June 2013, by Olivia Zeydler
Avoiding Tragedy: A New Role of Corporate Involvement in the Aftermath of the Bangladesh Factory Collapse
The April 24 collapse of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza factory took the lives of 1,127 individuals, and left more than 1000 injured. The tragedy gained significant international attention, shedding (…)