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The one issue that remains the main problem in post-colonial Africa is the failure of African revolutionary movements to articulate a truly liberatory political and economic vision.

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Instead of relying on the border police, the EU should assess the effects of its own policies on the poor, migrant-sending countries. Unless the policies that perpetuate the conditions for poverty...

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The Venezuelan local elections were a highly anticipated event in Venezuela. PSUV activists and candidates and opposition party candidates (with notably fewer activists) fought hard during the...

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Though many on the left put forth an analysis that appreciated the importance of defeating McCain and the Republican party, few of us were prepared for the raw emotion that surfaced in the wake of...

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President-elect Obama's historic triumph was welcomed in Latin America by left-of-center governments who saw it as a continuation of their own electoral victories. Even before the election...

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Right now, while the horror of the attacks in Mumbai is reverberating around the world and tensions between India and Pakistan are mounting, there is a crucial move that President-elect Obama could...

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The Transnational Institute (TNI) panelists analyse the causes and consequences of the on-going global financial crisis and discuss its profound implications for a changed world order.
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Okay, let's get the obvious out of the way. It was historic. I choked up a number of times, tears came to my eyes, even though I didn't vote for him. I voted for Ralph Nader for the fourth time in...
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The carnage in Mumbai has made the need for President-elect Barack Obama to engage with the web of crises in the Middle East and South Asia more urgent and will compete with his economic...

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As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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The disadvantages of being a writer, who is often written about, are numerous. I begin with an enthusiastic call to my 81-year old mother, hoping to share my enthusiasm from an assignment abroad....

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The rapidly mushrooming debate about the relationship between the Obama administration and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party suffers from an unnecessary lack of clarity because many of...

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I feel blessed that at ninety-three I am still around to tell a new generation of movement activists the story of why James and I wrote Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (RETC) in...

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In Canada, the Conservative minority government might just become the opposition in parliament this week, replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition with support from the Bloc Quebecois from the outside.

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Martin Khor and Mark Weisbrot discuss appropriate regulatory mechanisms needed to prevent another similar crisis, and steps governments can take to reduce the impacts in the real economy of the US...
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Today (December 1), a surreal event will take place in the centre of London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day "to highlight the importance of Human Rights in our work as part of the 60th...
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Roberto J. Gonzalez on social scientists' role in defining and manipulating "tribalism" in Iraq.

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Supporters and opponents of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution have come out with differing assessments post the November 23 regional elections, which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had defined as...

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AT the weekend, media reports based on the interrogation of apparently the only terrorist to be captured alive in Mumbai, named as Azam Amir Kasab, evidently confirmed what many analysts - and most...

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Far be it from me to criticize a Nobel Prize-winner, but liberal New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman really dropped the ball three weeks ago on how progressives should...

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I will argue that the North-South conflict has played and continues to play a key role in affecting the United Nations, its work and its fortunes. Several fundamental reasons which account for this...

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The election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African American president has been heralded as proof that the United States has finally broken through the racial barrier. The image springs to...

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My stomach clenched the first time I heard that actor Stuart Townsend was making a mainstream movie about the 1999 shutdown of the WTO ministerial meetings, Battle in Seattle.

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On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, as our political figures and talking heads wrangled over the best way to babysit the cradle of civilization at the barrel of a gun, American poet and peace...

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English translation of interview from Beirut daily of Noam Chomsky by Assaf Kfoury

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It's been over a month since the beginning of the bailout binge, and little, if anything has changed. For, the bailout, from its inception, has been little more than a bait and switch.
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Like every other Indian, therefore, I am deeply saddened both by the insane loss of life, notable and ordinary, and by the damage done to this edifice. Especially when I recall that the Taj was...

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Sheila Rowbotham offers the comprehensive, critical, contextualized biography Edward Carpenter deserves

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What exquisite timing! A spoof of the New York Times on the theme of “all the news we hope to print” (dated July 4, 2009) appeared this November and was distributed across the U.S.A. This utopian...

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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and...

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Barry's uniformed head to foot in camouflage gear and armed with one of Christensen Arms' very best products - "a tremendous rifle ...a no-kick baby, a beautiful gun...If you ever get a chance to...

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Let us assume that the current theory of terrorists being trained in Pakistan and sent across to Mumbai is indeed true. The apt and proper response of the Indian government is to co-ordinate with...

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Eman, an Afghan woman's rights activist with RAWA tells Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar, that Obama must end the occupation.

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