Editor's Pick, Environment September 2, 2010
Indian Cotton Farmer Suicides, Pesticides and Fashion
BY Leah Borromeo 1 Comment
Politics September 1, 2010
We need solidarity with Russian environmentalists and anti-fascists
BY Tord Björk 0 Comments
Social Policy August 31, 2010
“Scandalous Development”: How Delhi conned its poor
BY Kapil Mishra 0 Comments
Editor's Pick, Politics August 31, 2010
Omar Abdullah: A requiem for Kashmir’s dying blossom
BY Huzaifa 6 Comments
Editor's Pick, Resistance August 31, 2010
Kashmiris fight against forgetting
BY Muhammad Gowhar Farooq 7 Comments
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Why is the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry ignoring the spilt blood?
Robert Shone August 31, 2010 1 Comment
Editor's Pick, Media
Iraq Body Count (IBC) has successfully drawn media attention to the failure of the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry to take account of Iraqi casualties. The media coverage has, for once, been fairly prominent on the “official” failure to take responsibility for Iraqi bloodshed.
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The US occupation of Iraq will last another decade
Marwan Bishara August 30, 2010 0 Comments
Politics
A new report shows that the Obama administration is intensifying its secret war and covert operations in the Muslim world, including assassinations through the use of drones.
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Tibetan blogosphere is vibrant and empowering
Dechen Pemba August 30, 2010 5 Comments
Editor's Pick, Technology
Whilst the potential for contact and dialogue in the Tibetan cyberspace is great, control of the internet and the politicisation of the blog content poses difficulties and risks. Monitoring Tibetan blogs reveals that throughout the year, at times deemed “sensitive” by the Chinese government, Tibetan blog-hosting sites will suddenly with no explanation or prior warning either be taken offline or be offline “for maintenance”
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Stieg Larsson’s partner deserves the rights to his work
Linn Hjort August 30, 2010 0 Comments
Social Policy
Stieg Larsson is possibly much more successful than he could ever have imagined. Ironically this is due to his popular books, not his intense work for democracy and equality. However, his colleagues, comrades and friends do remember and pay tribute to his more serious work – and his readers will get a glimpse of it even as they allow themselves to be highly entertained, that is for sure
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Why are aid agencies doing nothing in Kashmir?
Bilal Hussain August 30, 2010 2 Comments
Resistance
There are a few global humanitarian aid organizations operating in Kashmir: Actionaid International, Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF], Handicap International [HI], Save The Children [STC], International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC], amongst others. Most of these organizations have been doing little for the past two months of the siege to reach out to the people and provide them with necessary aid.
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I’m not a bigot but…
Hala Al-Hedeithy August 29, 2010 4 Comments
Editor's Pick, Religion
I don’t think Muslim places of worship are appropriate near the site of Ground Zero. In fact, it’s insensitive. If 9/11 families were to, by majority, decide tomorrow that the mere sight of Muslims near Ground Zero will remind them of the pain and suffering, then Muslims, out of manners, should refrain from walking around the site. Although Muslims lost their loved ones in the tragedy of 9/11, it is immediately cancelled out by the fact that the 19 perpetrators were Muslim too. Their pain is clearly irrelevant
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India’s brutality has turned Kashmir into a living hell
Giogiana Violante August 29, 2010 90 Comments
Editor's Pick, Resistance
“But you’re a Westener. You see how things are here. We have been living like this for twenty years. When you go back to your country you tell them. You ask them why they aren’t helping us.”
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‘Ground Zero Mosque’ furore is sign of rampant Islamophobia
Deric Shannon August 26, 2010 6 Comments
Religion
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The class basis of the UK’s Conservative Party
Richard Seymour August 25, 2010 0 Comments
Politics
Unless there is a revival of class struggle which plays out inside the parliamentary system, the franchise is liable to become once more the property of the ruling class, with the sharp-elbowed middle classes that David Cameron speaks of bargaining for largesse. On the other hand, to the extent that Labour is successful in rebuilding its support, business may well transfer its loyalties to Labour the better to manage the fall-out. Indeed, as in 1945, it may be that an upsurge in class struggle gives Labour the opportunity to be the agent of that new economic paradigm that the more far-sighted capitalists are looking for in vain
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The Radical Intellectual
Noam Chomsky August 24, 2010 0 Comments
Resistance
The world is too complex for history to repeat, but there are nevertheless lessons to keep in mind. There is no shortage of tasks for those who choose the vocation of critical intellectuals, whatever their station in life. They can seek to sweep away the mists of carefully contrived illusion and reveal the stark reality. They can become directly engaged in popular struggles, helping to organize the countless Joe Stacks who are destroying themselves, and maybe the world, and to join them in leading the way the way to a better future