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I teased a friend the other day: Do you feel safer in the new world order? We discussed the fact that there is a “new world order” whereby two states (regimes) in the world feel immune from International law, disregard existing mechanisms including...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is living proof that corporations are in bed with government. The party that has been cheated on is us, the American people. And the manifestations of that unfaithful relationship, one based on lies of Commission and o...
Adam Smith, of course, framed his invisible hand of the marketplace notions as important for the public good. Karl Marx pitched his ideas about a workers' utopia as brilliantly beneficial for the average Joe. Whether one subscribes to a righty-tighty l...
Tomorrow, live at the Brooklyn Peace Fair, hear Waging Nonviolence editors Bryan, Eric, and Nathan talk about our work and look back over the past year’s major nonviolence news stories. The fair is totally free and open to the public. It will take place at Brooklyn College’s Student Center between noon and 5 pm. Our
Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, May 4, 2011Given that hundreds of millions of Arabs, Iranians and Turks, in different ways, faced the common question of how they should respond to the unsatisfactory conditions that defined their lives, this is a good m...
Manuel Garcia Jr., Dissident Voice, May 3, 2011Dictatorship is the captivity of a people’s political rights, and is thus an analog of slavery, which is the captivity of their personal freedom. Assisting popular rebellions against dictatorship is alwa...
Jody Williams and Tin Tin Nyo, New Internationalist, May 5, 2011One could be forgiven for thinking that democracy is busting out all over Burma. After all, the military junta that runs the country is making a big show of handing over power to parliam...
Jaime FlorCruz, CNN News, May 1, 2011When hundreds of truckers went on a slowdown strike in Shanghai several days ago, the impact was immediately palpable: The movement of goods in one of China's largest container ports was virtually paralyzed. China w...
Emma Volonté, Upside Down World, May 2, 2011Community radio is not just a social and political commitment to 'give voice to the voiceless'—rather it is the shared property of a community, which articulates itself as a whole through the mics. And whi...
As thousands take to the streets today across Syria, in what has been dubbed the “Day of Defiance,” Al Jazeera ran a very interesting interview with Rami Nakhle, known online as Malath Aumran, who is part of an extensive network of exiled Syrian cyber-activists that is responsible for getting videos, images and news of the
Last week, the New York Times ran an interesting article about the current state of protest in China and how a network of young expat Chinese bloggers continue to work diligently to foment a Jasmine revolution in their homeland, despite a harsh government crackdown. The very first call for a Jasmine movement was broadcast from
Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters today, killing at least six people as thousands joined demonstrations across the country calling for an end to President Bashar Assad’s regime. Thousands of people gathered in the Yemen capital of Sana’a Wednesday to press their demand for the ouster of longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Commuters in
(Guardian photo of bin Laden compound)For all the pomp, ceremony, religious fawning and exceptionalism attached to our sacralized military codes of honor, frankly, they never impressed me much. They have always seemed to me much more like the kind of ...
In the aftermath of the news of the death of Osama bin Laden, I awoke this morning feeling lightheaded, and slightly off balance –and grateful that I could take my visceral reactions into my morning yoga class and move the uncomfortable energy out of...
In a recent article for NL-Aid, influential Egyptian journalist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy, whose writings I often like, reveals his deep ignorance about how nonviolent action works. He writes that: One of the biggest myths invented by the media, tied to this whole Gene Sharp business: the Egyptian revolution was “peaceful.” I’m afraid it wasn’t.
In a recent post at iRevolution, Patrick Meier mentions two related theories that explain why cutting of the internet or blocking popular websites backfires against repressive regimes, as it did against Mubarak, rather than effectively stifling dissent: The Dictator’s Dilemma suggests that repressive regimes are incurring increasing opportunity costs when they decide to cut access
