As multidões nas ruas: como interpretar?
Uma democracia em sociedades profundamente desiguais como a nossa, é meramente formal, praticada apenas no ato de votar. Ela se mostra como uma farsa coletiva. Essa farsa está sendo desmascarada”, diz Leonardo Boff…
Autonomy in Barcelona: the Mount Zion community
Echoing the area’s inspiring history of autonomous self-organization, a community of migrant workers in Barcelona now risks being thrown onto the street. Africa is a Country, June 28, 2013. Between the 19th and early…
Will Barack Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
In a way, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s decision to award US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama the Freedom of the City (Cape Town’s highest honor), sort of makes…
The New Black: Documentary Film Explores Divisions in African-American Community over LGBT Rights
We continue our coverage of gay marriage and equal rights with a new film that explores the divisions among African-Americans on the issue of marriage equality. Despite longstanding opposition from church leadership, the…
Hezbollah, its organization and Syria: why the party’s future will be played out in Damascus
Since unrest in Syria began two years ago, support given to the Syrian regime by the Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah to quash the insurrection by providing manpower, materials and logistical support, has frequently…
Turkey’s Problem is Erdogan, not the Akp
In recent days the AKP, the Islamic-conservative party led by Prime Minister Erdogan, celebrated its tenth anniversary in government while unprecedented protests were being held in a number of Turkish cities. The epicentre…
Is violence against women too common, too ordinary to qualify as interesting?
Back in February gender-based violence dominated media and public talk when South Africans declared themselves woken up, disgusted, outraged and horrified after the rape and murder of working class, black Anene Booysen and…
For Erdoğan, you are with him or against him: Tamer Söyler
“Kandils are the times for equality, unity and solidarity – Anti-capitalist Muslims,” this banner reads. Kandil refers to the celebration of one of the five Islamic holy nights. While Erdoğan was accusing the…
Can late Erdoğan learn from early Erdoğan?: Tamer Söyler
The 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, is said to have remarked: being President is like running a cemetery; you have got a lot of people under you and nobody is…
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…
