Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Middle East and North Africa: I am a student of violent and nonviolent revolutions and have been witnessing your “Jasmine Revolutions” with great excitement as well as deep concern. Like millions of people around the world, I am so full of admiration for your valiant struggle against totalitarianism, [...]
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The media coverage of the popular uprising in Egypt has exposed the Western apparatus of social control, and the backwardness of foreign policy. Most “experts” of foreign policy intentionally avoid engaging with the real issues and are in denial on at least three fundamental fronts: (a) the social movements in North Africa and the [...]
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Justice for George W’s torture violations jumped much closer this weekend. Ex-President George W Bush was supposed to fly to Switzerland to speak in Geneva February 15. But his speech was cancelled over the weekend because of concerns about protests and efforts by human rights organizations asking Swiss prosecutors to charge Bush with torture and [...]
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The Youth in the Middle East are hungry for food, jobs, and social justice. On December 17, Tunisian police confiscated the produce stand that Mohamed Bouazizi used to make his very small living because he did not have the necessary permit to sell fruits and vegetables. This young, college educated man, was one of [...]
Continue reading …The ruins and remains are this city’s history textbook, wide open for all to see, to read, to breathe. Mexico City – Past and present collide right in front of the amazed eyes of the spectator who stands between the ruins of the Templo Mayor or Great Temple, and the Metropolitan Cathedral in downtown Mexico [...]
Continue reading …A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable. The transparency, which Wikileaks has brought about, unveils many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand, UK and Yemen over issues of torture at Guantanamo, civilian casualties [...]
Continue reading …Haiti needs legitimate leaders right now. Unfortunately, the elections set for November 28, 2010 are a sham. Here are five reasons why the world community should care. First, Haitian elections are supposed to choose their new President, the entire House of Deputies and one-third of the country’s Senate. But election authorities have illegally excluded all [...]
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Jeffrey Blankfort is an American journalist and recognized expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Kathleen Wells: Hi. I’m Kathleen Wells, political correspondent for Race-Talk, and today I’m speaking with Jeffrey Blankfort. Jeffrey Blankfort has been engaged in political work on behalf of the Palestinians since spending four and a half months in Lebanon and Jordan [...]
Continue reading …By Wendy Ake, Last week’s UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals concluded with the adoption of another action plan intended to put the target date of 2015 back on course and strengthen commitments for women, children and other initiatives. In September 2000 when the MDGs were first penned, they were adopted through acclamation, rather [...]
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