As many as 48,000 security forces. 13,500 troops. Surface to air missiles stationed on top of residential apartment buildings. A sonic weapon that disperses crowds by creating "head splitting pain." Unmanned drones peering down from the skies. A safe-zone, cordoned...
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What We Are For | by Richard Heinberg
Every activist engaged in combating human-caused climate change or specific elements of the current energy economy knows that the work is primarily oppositional. It could hardly be otherwise; for citizens who care about ecological integrity, a sustainable economy, and...
The Powerful Know We Are Right. Let’s Radicalise our Analysis | by Robert Jensen
The crisis we face is caused by failed systems - replacing leaders while keeping the old system intact will not help.Critics now compare capitalism to cancer. The inhuman and antidemocratic features of capitalism mean that, like a cancer, the death system will...
What is Occupy Wall Street Actually About? | by Liza Ponomarenko
The Tea Party has been protesting against the United States government overstepping its boundaries and Occupy Wall Street seems to be the left-wing response to the a common frustration. For the Occupy movement, though, the real problem is corporate America, which...
Envisioning a new African university | by Steve Sharra
The month of October marks eight months since lecturers at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, stopped teaching, demanding guarantees of academic freedom. Despite verbal assurances from President Bingu wa Mutharika for a win-win solution to the problems that...
Envisioning a new African university | by Steve Sharra
The month of October marks eight months since lecturers at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, stopped teaching, demanding guarantees of academic freedom. Despite verbal assurances from President Bingu wa Mutharika for a win-win solution to the problems that...
Rethinking Marxism | by Michael Burawoy
What should be our orientation to MarxisM today? The most common response is to bury it. Marxism, as Talcott Parsons used to say, was a theory whose significance was wholly confined to the 19th century – a version of 19th century utilitarianism of no relevance to the...
ACB STATEMENT: PATEL’S NEW GROWTH PATH (NGP) SUPPORTS GREEN REVOLUTION FOR SMALL HOLDER FARMERS AND BIOFUELS
The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is deeply disturbed and disappointed that Minister Patel’s New Growth Path (NGP) has not embraced new thinking on agriculture policy which requires breaking from a wholly inequitable and ecologically unsustainable...




