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Kurdistan: The Next Autocracy?
vendredi 14 juin 2013 par Derek Monroe — NEWS AND ANALYSIS
A haze hangs low over the city of Erbil. Automotive exhaust and dry sand envelop the area, forming an opaque mixture that sunshine struggles to penetrate. The capital of northern Iraq's Kurdistan Autonomous Region, Erbil operates as a de-facto independent state, with its own legislative, (...)
Why Is Public Money Paying For The Right-Wing Hate And Misinformation Of Eric Duhaime?
mardi 11 juin 2013 par Michel Lambert — NEWS AND ANALYSIS
Eric Duhaime and his hatred of anything close to the notion of common good is all over the place. On Sun News, Radio X, TVA, and several blogs, we see, hear or read him bashing community groups, women's associations, labour or students organizations. Wherever the privileges of a wealthy (...)
Sow The Wind In Syria, Reap The Whirlwind In Turkey
vendredi 7 juin 2013 par Saeed Naqvi — NEWS AND ANALYSIS
It was October 2011. I knew this would be my last evening with the distinguished Turkish journalist, Mehmet Birand, as we looked over the Bosphorus from my hotel in Istanbul. He had been fighting cancer bravely for quite some time but the extent to which his large frame had shrunk was a clear (...)
Gezi - Analysis of a Protest
vendredi 7 juin 2013 par Nilüfer Göle — NEWS AND ANALYSIS
“Yaşamak bir ağaç gibi tek ve hür ve bir orman gibi kardeşçesine” “To live like a tree alone and free and like a forest in brotherhood” Nazım Hikmet A brand new movement is unfolding in front of our eyes. The participants themselves are pleasantly surprised. Hearing their own voices and seeing the (...)
An Uprising for Dignity
jeudi 6 juin 2013 par Ahmet İnsel — NEWS AND ANALYSIS
The Gezi Park rebellion is nothing like the Arab Uprisings. It is neither an uprising against a dynasty coiled up as head of state for decades, nor a demand for fair and equal elections against an autocratic head of the state running dysfunctional elections against a non existent opposition. (...)
Violence of the Oppressed
mercredi 5 juin 2013 par Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly — NEWS AND ANALYSIS
“the biggest grab of tribal land after Columbus” The chorus of righteous indignation against Maoist violence has made a comeback. The commercial media has returned to baying for the blood of the “left-wing extremists”. “Why are human rights groups not condemning the terror the Maoists unleashed?” (...)
Neo-Fascism: The Beginning of a New Chapter in Europe's History?
Scattered across seven years, seven cities, and seven professions, nine of the victims of the ‘Doener murders' had one thing in common: a shared status as immigrants in Germany. It took the German authorities what many consider to be a surprisingly long time to connect these politically (...)
Crossing the Line: Will the United States Intervene in Syria?
Despite its best efforts, the Obama administration is sliding down a slippery slope towards intervention in Syria. A humanitarian crisis that has cost between 80, 000 and 120, 000 lives, and produced over 2.5 million refugees requires decisive foreign policy action. The Obama administration has (...)
Muslim Minorities in Myanmar and Sri Lanka
In the past year, tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have been rising in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Both states are home to minority Islamic ethnic groups that have forcibly assumed the role of scapegoats in their respective post-conflict contexts, while Buddhist majorities are said to be (...)
Kenyan Indemnities and Empire History
Last October, three Kenyan elders won the right to claim compensation for their torture in British colonial prison camps after bringing their cases to the London High Court. The scale is of an alleged 10,000 Kenyans who share similar stories of having been raped and tortured by British (...)
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