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After September 11, 2001, the Taliban offered to negotiate about bin Laden. George Bush said no, we don't negotiate with terrorists. We see the brilliant results of that war system response: a decade of bloodshed for Americans and Afghans. The Taliban ...
My family updated you using my email on what happened on Nakba day (the three messages are now posted at my blog http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2011/05/nakba-events-and-arrest-of-dr-qumsiyeh.html). Hundreds of us were kidnapped by t...
In his New York Times review of Adam Hochschild’s important new history of World War I, To End All Wars, Christopher Hitchens writes: Increasingly, modern historians have come to regard that bleak November ”armistice” as a mere truce in a long, terrible conflict that almost sent civilization into total eclipse and that did not really terminate until the
As of now at local time Monday morning 2 a.m. May 16, 2011, Mazin is stillbeing detained. His cell phone battery died as he called and wanted me towrite down the names and countries of the seven internationals that weredetained with him so that I...
Last Wednesday, activists targeted the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. As The Other 98% writes: 1,000 people gathered to launch Koch Brothers Exposed — a new project of Brave New Foundation and The Other 98% — by projecting a short film about the billionaire Koch Brothers onto the front of the
The May issue of Sojourners has several great articles on nonviolence that are worth reading if you have the chance. In “People Power,” Erica Chenoweth succinctly explains the reasons why nonviolent movements have been significantly more successful over the last century, based off the results from her research on hundreds of violent and nonviolent movements
I'm sorry, but this is what we are doing, Mr. President, when we murder our adversary. The ultimate in oxymoronic, mutually exclusive, self-contradictory behavior is killing for peace. It is the endpoint of what we call negative peace, that is, peace d...
Khaled Diab, The Guardian, May 12, 2011Drawing lessons from the failure of the violent second intifada and the success of the largely peaceful first intifada, as well as the now-proven power of mass, nonviolent protest to instigate change in the region...
Photo by: vincentevanpig I was just talking to a scientist friend of mine. He told me, and I quote, that “unfortunately, in science, we fail 95% of the time, we inch along towards a breakthrough.” There is a lot of good talk about failure lately, but I don’t think I had ever heard it this way
NPR, May 10, 2011Between 50,000 and 150,000 protesters marched to Mexico City's central plaza last week, and in this media spotlight, the protesters made a new demand - amid the failure of the government to provide security, they cried, the Public Safe...
Thalif Deen, IPS, May 13, 2011The growing demands for democratic reforms spreading across the Middle East and North Africa - along with the dramatic rise of social media networks - have triggered "a human rights revolution on the threshold of a histori...
Kester Kenn Klomegah, IPS, May 12, 2011\In the wake of anti-government protests by the opposition and youth activists in Baku, Azerbaijan, authorities have arrested and detained scores of demonstrators and journalists in deplorable and inhumane conditi...
Josh Kron, NY Times, May 12, 2011Ugandans frustrated with their government held large, boisterous celebrations on Thursday to welcome home the nation’s leading opposition figure, drowning out a lavish and dignitary-studded inauguration ceremony fo...
By Michael N. Nagler Film reviews have been rare in these pages, but we feel that the new film by Tom Shadyac, I Am, is extremely worth seeing. It is a real breakthrough in progress toward a new paradigm and nonviolent future in that it integrates nonviolence skillfully into the “Great Turning,” or overall paradigm shift. I
Published on Monday, May 9, 2011 by CommonDreams.orgDaniel Berrigan: A Lifetime of Peace Activismby Deena GuzderJingoistic crowds erupted with frat-boy glee shortly after President Barack Obama announced the extrajudicial assassination of Osama Bin Lad...
Joseph Lelyveld’s new biography of Gandhi, Great Soul, has been the occasion for a lot of pontificating by reviewers on what they take to be the man’s legacy—rather more, generally, than actually discussing the book. (Not having read the book myself, forgive me for following suit.) The latest entry is David Shulman’s essay in the
