November 2012

Articles

• 1 November 2012, by Houda Chergui

  A Contentious Election For Women’s Rights

  In the upcoming American election, taking place on November 6, results will determine whether the country will be moving forward or reverting back to the 1950s. Polls indicate that, as in most (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Anastasia Manannikova

  World Social Forum-Free Palestine

  World Social Forum (WSF) is an annual “opened-space” meeting of civil society organizations that has for purpose to find solutions to multiple global and particular social issues. The goal of the (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Brittany McGillivray

  The Imminent Dangers of the Shrinking Arctic

  On September 16, 2012 the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) published the startling news that the Arctic summer sea ice was at its lowest level since researchers began recording it in (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Harriet Sherwood

  Israeli Poll Finds Majority In Favor Of ’Apartheid’ Policies

  Two-thirds say Palestinians should not be allowed to vote if West Bank was annexed, while three in four favor segregated roads. More than two-thirds of Israeli Jews say that 2.5 million (…)
• 1 November 2012, by P. Sainath

  USA Elections 2012: When War Passes for Foreign Policy

  In the last Obama-Romney debate, there was absolutely no mention of the financial costs, casualties and lessons from America’s military outings. “Take the profit out of war,” said Kevin Zeese, (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Rami Almeghari

  Food for Thought

  Rami Almeghari: Your current visit to the Gaza Strip is said to be within your own attempt to help break the Israeli siege of Gaza. Why has it taken place now? Noam Chomsky: It has been a (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Shaun Harkin

  Turning Despair Into Hate

  Greece is in a grueling downward economic spiral with massive political and social ramifications. Aspects of Greek society are literally falling apart at the seams. Across the whole eurozone – the (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Giorgio Cafiero

  Saudi Arabia and Qatar: Dueling Monarchies

  The demise of secular autocratic regimes in the Middle East and North Africa has heralded a renaissance for Islamist parties in the region, igniting a rivalry for the hearts and minds of the Sunni (…)
• 1 November 2012, by ICSSI

  The Fourth Conference of The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI)

  In the southern Iraqi city of Basra, from October 20 to 22 2012, more than 200 Iraqi activists, trade unionists and human rights defenders met to discuss a democratic future for their country (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Messaoud Romdhani

  The Long March Towards Free Media In Tunisia

  Before January 14, 2011 Tunisian media was one of the three fundamental pillars of Ben Ali’s dictatorship, along with the police and the judiciary. All types of expression were censored including (…)
• 1 November 2012, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Challenges Facing the Civil Society in Tunisia

  One of the major characteristics of every dictatorship is the predominance of the State over the society, killing political opposition and suffocating any burgeoning of civil society being held (…)