Hana Shalabi has been on hunger strike for over a month. Her condition has been deteriorating so badly that prison officials had to transfer her to a Haifa hospital (though she wasn’t admitted to the hospital). Shalabi is protesting being … Continue reading →

Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice tells the stories of individuals in the United States whose rights have been abused as a result of the racist, Islamophobic backlash and the so-called War on Terror that followed the attacks of 11 … Continue reading →

The parents of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin address thousands during a march in New York on Wednesday. Trayvon was shot dead last month by a neighbourhood watch volunteer in Florida. He was wearing a hoodie at the time of his death … Continue reading →

George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin, an African American teenager, reveals a history of racism in Sanford, FL that has stubbornly refused to die. Weeks after the shooting, the Sanford police department is slow to release details of the shooting … Continue reading →

A group of Afghan parliamentary investigators has concluded that Bales was part of a group of 15-20 soldiers. As Outlook Afghanistan reported Monday, “The team spent two days in the province, interviewing the bereaved families, tribal elders, survivors and collecting … Continue reading →

It all really goes deeper than the criticism aimed at his Enough Project, the Save Darfur campaign, or the “genocide paparazzi” satellite monitoring scheme – all of which are symptomatic of an overarching failure in US foreign policy, which promotes … Continue reading →

Victims and human rights activists cheered when, on January 26, a Guatemalan court charged Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt with genocide and crimes against humanity. The decision to bring the 85-year-old former dictator to trial is the latest stage in a … Continue reading →

While it is important and strategically wise to form coalitions and build solidarity with other marginalized groups, it should be considered only when a movement is armed with a clear understanding of its own historicity based on the experience of … Continue reading →

In dealing with Arabs, the most dominant construct is religion – they are treated as Muslims first, Arabs second. In dealing with Sub Sahara Africa, the dominant construct is race; we are all “black”. This “Africa” is also an intellectual … Continue reading →

this essay by arundhati roy is exceptionally sharp. it delineates the history of corporate philanthropy (with some focus on the ford foundation) and makes connections that might shock many. i will attempt to quote some of the paragraphs i found … Continue reading →

For Palestinian expatriate Edward Said, the return to his homeland amounted to a painful inquiry into his past. This program captures the interconnection between Said’s personal recollections and the shared memory of the Palestinian people. Far from ignoring the contemporary … Continue reading →

In most colonial wars people are arrested, tortured at random and killed. Not even a façade of legality is considered necessary. The ‘lone’ American gunman who butchered innocents in Afghanistan in the early hours of Sunday morning was far from … Continue reading →

Invisible Children has an enviable ability to draw attention to itself. It should offer courses to other NGOs in social media and video editing. But that doesn’t mean IC knows the material. Until they bother to make a case to … Continue reading →

there is this email campaign going on and someone forwarded this video to me. i had never heard of the hoshyar foundation before. they r a u.s based organization. personally i would feel more comfortable supporting non-profits like DIL (developments … Continue reading →

To a critical but scarcely exclusive sense, the Pentagon’s penchant for military toys makes an ambitious, aggressive foreign policy essential. Without enemies and conflicts, real or potential, there is no reason to spend money, and this reality often colored its … Continue reading →

it’s easy to discuss the dominance of the pakistani army in every facet of pakistan’s politico-economic life and treat this phenomenon as a “third world” issue. the american military is just as much in charge of the country’s foreign policy. … Continue reading →

The historic achievement of Aimé Césaire’s generation was that, in the course of the anti-colonial struggle, it established the agency of the developing world and the right of its peoples to make their own choices, so much so that, today, … Continue reading →

More than 250 Palestinian and Israeli women and men were attacked by military forces at a demonstration at the Qalandia checkpoint. Several injuries were reported, including one woman who was hospitalized after being shot with a rubber-coated bullet. “The 8th … Continue reading →

[The video] aims to make Kony “famous” by encouraging supporters to plaster US cities with posters, in order to make the fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army an issue of “national interest” to Washington. That, the video’s makers claim, will … Continue reading →

Naomi Wolf: Burning a conquered people’s sacred texts sends an unmistakable message: you can do anything to these people. As Heinrich Heine put it, referring to the Spanish Inquisition’s burning of the Quran, “Where they burn books, so too will … Continue reading →

The truth is that governance in the US has been slipping fully into the modes and mindset of a security state for a long time. The government sees large parts of its population not as citizens or constituencies, but as … Continue reading →

i’m always wary of projects that fit in too well with the imperialist agenda. watch what obaid-chinoy says about american military withdrawal from afghanistan at 3.10. yes, acid attacks r an incomprehensible horror but this conversation should be happening inside … Continue reading →