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February 2015
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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 expression, (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...)