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Jeff Cohen

Fear Extreme Islamists in the Arab World? Blame Washington (English)

Sunday 30 January 2011 by CP

In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. questioned US military interventions against progressive movements in the Third World by invoking a JFK quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Were he alive to witness the last (...)

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Michel Chossudovsky

The Protest Movement in Egypt: "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey Orders (English)

Sunday 30 January 2011 by CP

The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement... What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World? "Dictators" do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria. Dictators are invariably political puppets. Dictators do not decide. (...)

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Larry Portis

The People’s War to Come (English)

Iciar Bollain’s "Even the Rain"

Saturday 29 January 2011 by CP

Generations come and generations go. But somehow—by standing on the shoulders of giants—humanity advances towards something more positive. This is the hope held out by Iciar Bollain in her new film Even the Rain (También la Iluvia). I believe she shows how this slow march to a better world through (...)

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Larry Portis

Tahani Rached’s “Giran” (Neighbors) (English)

Imperialist Architecture in Egypt

Saturday 29 January 2011 by CP

It should be amusing to hear or read someone tell of an “architect of foreign policy”, as if the establishment of a structure of power relationships designed to ensure one state’s domination of other countries and regions is a work of construction with its technical and artistic expertise like any (...)

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Larry Portis

Serge Avedikian’s "Barking Island" (English)

Dogs Slaughter as Overture to the Armenian Genocide

Saturday 29 January 2011 by CP

I think by now we can forget about the slogan “never again”. The real question is: “how long to the next genocide?” Will, in this time of capitalist crisis and growing political disaffection, generalized war provide opportunities to whip up some crusade aiming to ostracize and even physically (...)

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 Patrice Victor 

French police abuses the law and harasses a Malaysian citizen at Paris airport (English)

Saturday 29 January 2011 by RoCr

September Monday 13, 2010 - Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. The police border doesn’t let in a young tourist from Malaysia. The decision by the police seems the right one: the foreigner doesn’t have 60 euros a day for his stay, a requirement according to the chief of the police station, and the (...)

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Richmond Cops Mistakenly Hand Over Anti-Protest Guides to Anarchist (English)

Saturday 29 January 2011 by WoHe

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests.

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The Broken Rifle

The Sexual Uniform (English)

Saturday 29 January 2011 by WoHe

The military uniform hides under its camouflage – olive green, pale kaki, dark blue or snowy white – yet another uniform deployed over the very body which sustains the warrior clothing. Over there, taking the form of skin and hairs, you will find the sexual uniform: that act of faith that turns men into men and women into women, regardless our identity, wishes or actual actions. For the military (and the various kinds of militarisms), sex is the ultimate certainty and the ultimate order.

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Thailand. Chinese dissident journalist detained in Bangkok despite UNHCR protection (English)

Saturday 29 January 2011 by RoCr

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai authorities to release Sun Shucai, an 87-year-old refugee activist and journalist who was arrested in Bangkok on 8 December. He is now in a Bangkok immigration detention centre after a judge fined him 3,000 Baht (75 euros) on 9 December and ordered the authorities to examine the possibility of deporting him.

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Richard Greeman

The Korean Powder-Keg (English)

Saturday 29 January 2011 by P.S.

North Korea is a powder keg, and the Obama Administration — like the Bush Administration whose bellicose policies it inherited — is playing with matches. Why are the U.S. and its allies hysterical about the Iranians — whose nuclear programs might at some future time lead to nuclear weapons — while (...)

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