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July 2016
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8 July 2016, by Malcolm Guy
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte: A Socialist in Disguise?
Time magazine called him "the punisher" while other publications refer to him as “Duterte Harry”, the Trump of the Philippines, or a “dictator in waiting”. I feel compelled by the somewhat (…) -
4 July 2016, by Sophia Reuss
An Interview with Ali Abunimah: BDS and Palestinian Solidarity
Ali Abunimah is a prominent Palestinian-American activist and journalist. Abunimah is the Vice-President on the Board of Directors of the Arab American Action Network, a fellow at the Palestine (…) -
4 July 2016, by Samia Constantin
“I Am a Victim of Injustice”: Dilma Rousseff and Sexism in Brazilian Politics
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff faces an impeachment trial after accusations of burying an important budget deficit to guarantee her re-election in 2014 sparked massive public outrage. The (…) -
4 July 2016, by Kyle Jacques
What Hillary and Trump’s Foreign Policies Have in Common
Hillary Clinton’s major speech on foreign policy was surely a disappointment for anyone who wanted to hear about, well, foreign policy. Take away the many digs at Donald Trump and the many (…) -
4 July 2016, by Catherine Larouche
The Other Side of The War on Terror: False Terror Charges Against Muslim Youth in India
I first met Mohammed Aamir Khan in the office of Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD), a Delhi-based organization working on communal harmony and human rights, in which he was formerly (…) -
4 July 2016, by Dylan Boyko
The Results that We Got: The Contradictions of American Gun Violence
There is a problem in America with the economics of safety. Early in Evan Osnos’ stunning New Yorker article on the subtle proliferation of gun ownership and gun discourse in America, he quotes (…) -
4 July 2016, by Messaoud Romdhani
Torture: Legislations and Reality
« To combat torture without compromise, we need to know our major opponent: the dark side of our humanity.” Serge Portelli, Why torture A few weeks after the Assembly of People’s (…) -
4 July 2016, by Jooneed J Khan
In Dedication to Amjad Sabri & All Qawwals
Qawwalis can be deadly. Case in point: the assassination of Pakistani Qawwal Amjad Sabri, brought down June 22 in a hail of bullets fired by two gunmen on a motor-bike as he drove with a friend in (…) -
4 July 2016, by Voices-Voix
BDS in Canada
What Happened On February 22, 2016, the House of Commons passed a Conservative motion to “reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement” and “call upon the government to condemn (…)