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October 2013
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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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...)