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September 2010
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2 September 2010, by Michael Ryan Wiseman
Realitopia
"... It speaks to the very heart of the dilemma amongst us utopians— how do you move a pile of excrement without getting any on you? At the very least, you are bound to smell of it..." (...) -
2 September 2010, by Cy Gonick
Ecosocialism as Holistic Earth Care
Legendary lefty Cy Gonick speaks to ecosocialism founder Joel Kovel about creating global resistance movements; ecosocialist activism that moves beyond pressing for direct caps on polluters; and (...) -
2 September 2010, by Mireille Fanon-Mendès France
The Sunrise of the Damned
Franz Fanon only got to see the first fires that were the false dawn of African independence. Sickness took him before the hope forged through liberation struggles dissolved into the neocolonial (...) -
2 September 2010, by Tapan Bose
Kashmir Burning
From the ramparts of the Red Fort, celebrating the 64th anniversary of India’s Independence, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, offered to hold dialogue with the agitating youth of Kashmir if they (...) -
2 September 2010, by Michael Bramadat-Willcock
In the Shadow of Sandino
“The election looms in the coming days; it is an amazing scene of lies and manipulations. If Ortega wins there may be a civil war here. It is quite tense,” my father warned me before my last visit (...) -
2 September 2010, by Phyllis Bennis
Mosque Hysteria
At its core, the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is not about religion. It’s about war. For some years now the fear factor that followed the (...) -
2 September 2010, by Marine Begault
Alternatives Days
Sitting on one of the packed yellow school buses on the way to the Journées Des Alternatives, my expectations were dim. After all, I was spending my first weekend in Canada at a no-frills summer (...) -
2 September 2010, by Ezra Winton
ART THREAT !!!
A Conversation with Return to El Salvador director Jamie Moffett; Video installation infiltrates 6000 NYC taxis; Artist Profile: Nicholas Hlobo A Conversation with Return to El Salvador (...) -
2 September 2010, by Yasser Shoukry
The Essence of Islam
Islam, like other religions, is a religion that began as a message to ensure better material and spiritual conditions for human beings. Movements of political Islam however, refer to the (...) -
2 September 2010, by Claire Hurtig, Freda Guttman
Towards a free Palestine!
Join us at the historic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Conference in Montreal this October! From 22 to 24 October 2010, Montreal-based Palestine-solidarity organizations will host an (...)