Philosopher and Critical theorist Slavoj Zizek, says he’s not an optimist when it comes to Europe and the broad political and ideological struggle in the continent and the world. But he salutes the demonstration of the British workers and the awackening “of some kind...
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Greece: technocrats will face the people’s anger | by Matthaios Tsimitakis
As a new unelected government of 'National Unity' takes office Matthaios Tsimitakis writes on the deepening political crisis in Greece. While European elites are sinking within their inability to overcome ideological biases and national fears mainly coming from the...
Egypt’s Intense Election Eve | by Nate Wright
Residents of Cairo’s Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood have gathered at a streetside café on a late October Friday night to get their first glimpse of a political party founded by revolutionary activists. Men play backgammon and sip from their glasses of tea as members of...
The Flowering of the Arab Spring: Understanding Tunisia’s election results | by Esam Al-Amin
Now that Tunisia's elections have passed - with just minor incidents - and the Islamist Ennahda party won the largest share of votes, the country waits for the constituent assembly to be formed, and to see what changes will be effected in Tunisian politics. It will...
Israeli Jews, Palestinian Arabs and the Apartheid Question | by Ran Greenstein
Presentation at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Cape Town, November 2011 Apartheid is a system of racial domination, in which a dominant group exploits, oppresses, marginalizes and excludes subordinate groups. The specific forms of these practices may vary from...
G20 : the Symbol of a System Failure | by Eric Toussaint
The G20 is no more legitimate than its progenitor the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA). It was launched by the industrialized countries three years ago when they were beginning to feel the effects of the biggest economic crisis since the 1930’s....
Where Did the Left Go? | by Serge Halimi
The Occupy Wall Street protests in the US are also directed against the Street’s representatives in the Democratic Party and the White House. The protesters probably don’t know that Socialists in France still consider Barack Obama exemplary, since, unlike President...
The UN & the Future of Palestine | by David Finkel
“YOU CAN’T MAKE this stuff up,” the Prime Minister of Israel lectured the UN General Assembly. Binyamin Netanyahu was referring to the history of Libya under Qaddafi, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, chairing UN Commissions on Human Rights and Disarmament respectively....
An Arab Springtime? | by Samir Amin
The year 2011 began with a series of shattering, wrathful explosions from the Arab peoples. Is this springtime the inception of a second “awakening of the Arab world?” Or will these revolts bog down and finally prove abortive—as was the case with the first episode of...






