Democracy Now!Sherif Mansour, CPJ, January 24, 2013 As post-Mubarak governments--whether run by Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) or the Muslim Brotherhood, to which President Morsi belongs--continued to exercise control over state media and instigate physi...
Mona Abaza, Jadaliyya, January 25, 2013Mohamed Mahmoud Street in Cairo offers an arena for the lively expression of resistance. The street’s location for art is strategic, as it is known as the “street of the eyes of freedom”—nicknamed as such ...
Sylvia Poggioli, NPR, January 25, 2013 An Italian pianist and music teacher has been resurrecting the music of the dead. Francesco Lotoro has found thousands of songs, symphonies and operas written in concentration, labor and POW camps in Germany and e...
Kate Hodal, The Guardian, January 24, 2013 Though it rarely makes international headlines, Laos has been in the spotlight for the past month as one of its most respected activists has gone missing after stopping at a police checkpoint. international ri...
In Bethlehem there were two young people buried Wednesday, both executed by occupation forces in the prime of life and both not discussed in mainstream western media. We buried a 15 year old child, Saleh Ahmed Alamarin. The...
by Frida Berrigan. Every once in a while, I come across a book that is so good I wish I had the idea first. Rosalie Riegle’s Doing Time For Peace: Resistance, Family and Community — an edited volume of interviews with peace activists who have spent time in jails and prisons as members of families
by Blair Braverman. In his “Progressive Honor Roll of 2012” for The Nation, John Nichols made what is sure to be a controversial choice for the title of Most Valuable Book: Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane McAlevey, along with co-author Bob Ostertag. McAlevey, who has worked
by Ali Issa The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
There was a story this morning from the Associated Press about a new storage site that can hold material from millions of CD's in a space the size of the tip of a little finger. The material can be stored in this site for centuries, as long as it is ...
by Derek Oakley. Last Thursday around 300 Palestinians gathered in Ramallah to prepare for a direct action in a location known only to a few key organizers but that would soon be seen in media around the world. The next day they traveled under the disguise of a Palestinian wedding party and converged upon a
by Ken Butigan. Stories are central to our existential job description: making sense of both the world and ourselves. From creation myths to scientific explanations, from political ideologies to the quirky narratives that knead our own amorphous lives into some kind of distinctive shape, stories are essential — not only because they nudge the disconnected
by Peter Dörrie. When fundamentalist rebel forces overran the central Malian city of Konna on January 11, they sent shockwaves not only through Mali itself but through the international community as well. With Konna fallen, the path to the last remaining government-controlled military base in the region, in the town of Sevaré, looked clear. Having
by Jessica Lee. Earlier this month, during the opening session of the 2013 Utah Energy Development Summit, two activists with Utah Tar Sands Resistance took to the stage in order to present Utah Gov. Gary Herbert — the host of the summit — with a very special award: Polluter of the Year. After commandeering the
Cam McGrath, IPS, January 19, 2013Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef spoke sarcastically to a red pillow stamped with the image of Mohamed Morsi, ridiculing the Egyptian president’s purported authoritarian tendencies, on his popular television show. Th...
Ned Parker and Alaa Hassan, LA Times, January 20, 2013Many educated, middle-class Syrians who had embraced the opposition now feel alienated by its drift toward extremism — and are aligned with neither side. They, along with many of their elders amon...
Patrick Keddie, openDemocracy, January 22, 2013As of December 2012, there were 4,656 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli custody. The year ended in frustration for many prisoners as interest in their plight has waned, both in the international media ...
