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Obama’s big joke! By Antoine Roger Lokongo
Brahim Senouci recently wrote a piece in his blog which well depicted an Africa at the crossroads. According to Senouci, ‘of course, slavery and […]
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The NGO-ization of resistance By By Arundhati Roy
A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance. It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an […]
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Imagine all the people, living life in peace: Stop the killing, end the siege of Gaza By Marilyn Langlois
Imagine: A group of kids in Richmond playing outside. Maybe a pick-up soccer Children in Gaza running for their lives. What if they were […]
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Africa Top 10 Problems: Not the ones You were thinking about! By Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
Africa is not poor. Africa is a rich continent inhabited by poor people. Once we fix the people problem, everything else will fall into […]
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Letter from Gaza by Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert on 20 July 2014
Dr Mads Frederick Gilbert (centre) at Al-Shifa hospital on July 17th, treating a wounded Palestinian child, after an Israeli air strike killed 4 children […]
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Nation celebrating wrong heroes: Arundhati Roy
‘The story of Gandhi that we’ve been told is a lie’ Arundhati Roy The real struggles and battles of actual heroes such as Ayyankali […]
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War-Such an unnecessary evil By Tumusiime K. Deo
In many countries, the proportion of the total national budget spent on the military, is a lion’s share compared to other priorities. And […]
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We Come as Friends 2014: interview with Hubert Sauper By Eric Hynes
Hubert Sauper is a very charming man. His methods of engagement—eye contact, attentiveness, enthusiasm, easy laughter and self-deprecation—seem genuine, but they’re also invariably […]
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Book Review: Claim No Easy Victories – The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral By Prince Ofori-Atta
Published for the 40th anniversary of Guinea-Bissauan revolutionary Amilcar Cabral’s death, this book is a crucial link in the colonial liberation narrative. The book’s […]
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The road to peace in Mali: political roadblocks and other obstacles
Civil society organisations are doing good work in Mali. But their job is being made more difficult by the need to address the root […]
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“Journalism in Egypt is a Crime”: Global Outcry After 3 Al Jazeera Reporters Sentenced to 7-10 Years
An Egyptian court has sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists to between seven and 10 years in prison on terrorism charges, including “spreading false news” […]
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From guns and knives to friendship
Photo: http://bit.ly/1m3q4Gr by Rosa Lia: The Palestine-Israel Journal One conversation in a coffee shop in Ramallah with a Palestinian who spent 10 years […]
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Heed the Voices For Peace Amid the Tragedy of Iraq By Amy Goodman
It didn’t take long this week for the architects of the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq to apply their makeup and jump […]
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Saving Threatened Species
by John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service Loss of Biodiversity All of us know that the relentless growth of human population, agriculture and […]
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Congo-Kinshasa: 'La Lucha' – Goma's Own Brand of Indignados
I can't remember exactly when I first heard about them, but suddenly they were there. Not as a new organisation with a clear leadership, […]
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Behind Islamophobia, Fascism and Complicit Antifascism By Houria Bouteldja
First, I would like to thank the conference organizers for inviting me. I want to pay tribute to their efforts for putting together this […]
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Race, class, and gender: Intersectionality between social reality and political limits
By Houria Bouteldja I would like to thank the University of California at Berkeley and in particular the Ethnic Studies Department for this invitation. […]
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Solidarity economies: A guerrilla war against capitalism. Part One
An interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo by Beverly Bell and Jessica Hsu These glassblowers are also owners of a cooperative dishware factory in Buenos […]
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Silent Grace: A Film Review By Sumeet Grover
Silent Grace is an award-winning 2004 film, directed by filmmaker Maeve Murphy. It documents a disturbing chapter of Northern Ireland’s nonviolent dirty protests […]
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PICTURE RIO: WHY SO MANY BRAZILIANS HATE THE WORLD CUP By Eugene Reznik
Mario Tama, a staff photographer for Getty Images, first caught my eye a few months ago with this disturbing photo above taken in what […]
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK by Ayana Labossiere
I will never forget my first trip to Haiti. In 1990, at five years old, I went to Haiti with my dad to visit […]
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International Peace Research Association at 50 BY Johan Galtung
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years […]
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Peace Movements’ Common Vision: The Abolition of Militarism by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Dear friends, We are all aware that this is the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo which led to […]
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VICTORY FOR VIRUNGA? BRITISH OIL COMPANY AGREES TO END ITS OPERATIONS IN AFRICA’S OLDEST NATIONAL PARK
British oil company SOCO International plc (SOCO) has agreed to end its controversial operations in Africa’s oldest national park. Oil drilling was resolutely opposed […]
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11June – 11 July 2O14 Artist Lida Sheraftmand : Internals Worlds, External Relations with the London School of Economics, London
The exhibition is to be opened by the High Commissioner of Malta to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Norman Hamilton Visit her website […]