Looking back at the Arab Springs… from Damascus
Today, two years after the beginning of the “Arab spring”, the region is torn apart by a series of conflicting forces, which go much beyond those who toppled the then current regimes, first…
Interview with Amalia Ziv – queer, feminist and anti-occupation in Israel
It was through Amalia Ziv ‘s work that I came to know about ‘Kvisa Shchora’ (Black Laundry), an Israeli anti-Occupation queer group, which positions itself against both Israeli Zionist queer politics and the…
Meme Wars on Campus – Adbusters
Kick It Over – Campaign Students, we’re living through a critical time in human history. Capitalism is crumbling and the world needs new approaches to managing the economy. Print out your favorite posters…
Crises of Capitalism and Social Democracy
John Bellamy Foster is best-known as author of Marx’s Ecology (2000; in which he corrects the popular misapprehension that Marx did not ‘get’ environmental limits), and as editor of Monthly Review (monthlyreview.org), the…
Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in “The Cushion in the Road”
Legendary author, poet and activist Alice Walker joins us to discuss her newest book, “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way,” in…
Iran-Venezuela after Chávez, still an indissoluble bond?
There was national mourning and a ceremony in a Catholic church in Tehran to sanctify the ties with the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez, the president who, according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “was the symbol…
Pakistan beyond liberal and conservative: Ayesha Siddiqa
As Pakistan battles with militancy, part of the war is also being fought in the arena of ideas. In order to fight militancy, some argue, Pakistani society has to win hearts and minds…
China-Africa relations: looking beyond the critics
Africa is lacking a clear and unified policy in terms of how it relates to China. In developing further social, economic and political ties with China, African leaders must develop a coherent and…
Safe to speak? The challenges of democracy and press freedom in Turkey
On March 18 a symbolic funeral march was staged in front of Turkey’s historic left-wing newspaper, the Milliyet, for the silent “death” of one of its most honorable authors. Hasan Cemal, 69 years,…
Africa today: Reflections on resilience
The African humanity currently generates, overwhelmingly, the capital resource that at once sustains it and is exported to the Western world. The notion that Africans are in any way dependent on a European/Western…
