Found 346 articles matching your filters across English (2011-01-26 to 2011-12-06). Top authors: Viewpoint
While voices were being raised from the right, and part of the left, declaring the "Arab Spring" over and advising the rebellious masses to go back home, recent days have made it abundantly clear that the revolutionary process which was sparked in Tunisia late …
Assassination is as American as apple pie. The record-breaking case of assassination-targeting is Fidel Castro. The 1976 Church Committee report on “Alleged Assassination Plots on Foreign Leaders” listed “at least” seven attempts to kill Castro, but the book b …
The occupation of Wall Street is now in its third week. Thousands of people have worked and fought for it, have given it their time, their bodies, their ideas, their blood. People have used their bodies as shields, sent letters of solidarity, marched, slept ou …
Tunisia and Egypt face economic challenges besides the difficulty of achieving political stability. The collapse of the previous systems of sinecure will release individual energies and initiatives, but these will go nowhere unless the new administrations find …
On a pleasant September morning, Mohammad Sidiq, a sand-digger in his early 30s, pushes his long wooden boat out onto the River Jhelum, which cuts through the heart of Srinagar, the biggest city in the disputed, Indian-controlled province of Kashmir. As the su …
The Lashkar at Adeyzai has thwarted the march of the Taliban towards Peshawar. This tiny village near Peshawar has been a target for the Taliban for a long time now. Their leaders have paid in blood for standing up to the Taliban, their women and children are …
During the March - May 2011 quarter, a total of 216 incidents of political violence occurred across the country which affected 1,740 people of which 595 people were killed, 1,094 were injured and 51 were kidnapped. On average, seven people were killed, 12 were …
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 55 JUNE 17, 2011 --> ONLINE ISSUE NO. 58 JULY 8, 2011 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Archives Letters to the Editor Sabir's Gallery Links About Contact us - . Are media a …
A t a time when memory is being erased and the political relevance of education is dismissed in the language of measurement and quantification, it is all the more important to remember the legacy and work of Paulo Freire. Freire is one of the most important ed …
Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country’s military, according to American officials. New classi …
Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, launched a coordinated assault in January 2010 on the Islamist order that has gripped her country for 30 years. She attacked its legal foundation. In 1979, Islamists had hijacked control of the state, amended t …
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from Faisalabad city of Punjab province, the second largest industrial and commercial city of the country that a plan has been chalked out to kill the owners and their family members of 36 commercial a …
A few weeks ago, I received a call from Mayank Gandhi, Mumbai coordinator of ‘India Against Corruption’, invting me to be part of a panel in Mumbai to address a press conference on the then upcoming fast by Anna Hazare. “Your name has been suggested to me by S …
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 41 MARCH 11, 2011 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Links Archives Search Letters to the Editor About Contact us Do you think Talibanisation of society is destroying cultura …
Below is a statement by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) on global situation. The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt constitute a historic turning point in the international situation. These revolutions change the rules of the game. Ther …
The dictatorial regime of Muammar Gaddafi has escalated its violence against rebel forces seeking to bring it down. On March 6, opponents of the regime were reported to be in control of a number of cities, especially in Libya’s east. Al Jazeera said on March 4 …
February 23, 2011 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The conference theme was “ le statut de Kirkouk et l'article 140 de la constitution Irakienne: problemes et perspectives ”, taking place at the beautiful Palais du Luxembourg and French Se …
“Freedom lies behind a door closed shut,” the great Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi wrote in the last century. “It can only be knocked down with a bleeding fist.” More than that is bleeding in the Arab world at the moment. The uprisings we are witnessing in Egypt h …
Abstract Pakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over fifty-nine small languages. However, the languages of the domains of power—government, corporate sector, media, education, etc.— are English and Urdu. The state’s policies have favored these t …
ONLINE ISSUE NO. 34 JANUARY 21, 2011 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the ones who think differently Home Submissions Redaktion Links Archives Search Letters to the Editor About Contact us Do you think extremists can capture state power in Pakista …