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June 2017
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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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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. (...) -
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 (...)