It is ironic that Gabbard, Duke, Prashad and many others who seemingly oppose Israel's never-ending war on Palestinians (or America’s never-ending wars across the MENA) cynically adopt and repeat Israel’s dehumanizing and anti-muslim discourse of "terrorist stronghold", "human shield" and local regime’s “right to self defence”.
Read MoreI heard that cadres will question why families are getting calls overseas and I worry my family will be harassed so I did not contact them. Then we started having emoji conversations on WeChat.
Read MoreThe ability to assume expert knowledge is the logic of white supremacy which prioritizes an orientalist viewpoint over the lived reality of those who suffer.
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As to what kind of Iran the movement wants to see, that is unclear for the moment. Adopting the language of “regime change” would make the movement even more vulnerable to the kind of accusations of foreign imperial involvement Khatami and other establishment figures voiced.
Read MoreThe protests presently gripping Iran are proving as difficult for the mainstream media to
pigeonhole as they are for the Iranian state to pin back. Dynamic and evolving, they defy easy
explanations and go-to conspiracy theories.
And what greater peace than the peace that comes with the prince of peace? It is very rational and very moral if viewed through the standards by which evangelicals see the world of a leader and how they envision the future.
Read MoreThroughout my life, I have learnt that not everything that happens in Zimbabwe is because of white people. White folk, however have yet to learn that not everything that happens in Zimbabwe is because of them.
Read MoreWe're Afghans - we've been killing colonizers since our history began. Not only that, we've been taking down their empires with them.
Read MoreThe grim reality is that it wasn’t #ForaTemer or popular action which took down a corrupt president, but the greed of a businessman. Some question why the media empire Globo, which had supported Temer’s presidency and ignored all opposition, took a major political U-turn on May 17th, with the National News’ main newscaster and editor William Bonner (pronounced ‘Bó-ner’) already calling him the ‘ex’-president. Some just call it a political bet, but some say that it’s a great scheme to keep the Temer’s right-wing policies in place with a new face.
Read MoreJust like in the recent French elections, it is irresponsible to abstain from voting when faced with a choice between a predictably non-ideological technocratic candidate and a vociferously belligerent conservatism. Those at the receiving end of state violence do not have the luxury to hold their breath until bohemian intellectuals establish their global mutualist anarcho-syndicalist ecotopia.
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After four decades of violence and 16 years into the current US led War on Terror - Afghans are used to being sidelined and ignored while their homeland continues to be used as a testing ground by the world's super powers and terrorist organizations alike.
Read MoreTo the exclusion of the unconvinced, the lefty heil serves as a way of ensuring everyone in the room is on the same page. I say Fora Temer, you say Fora Temer: we thus recognize our mutual cool leftiness and can be friends.
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