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December 30, 2016
As early as January, when David Bowie departed the scene, some were already looking dubiously at 2016. Bowie was an icon of the 1970s, the era when what is now the dominant section of the population in most Western societies in terms of spending power – the post-war baby boomers – came to maturity. As more cultural legends from that age also died – many without the last burst of...
December 30, 2016
The new right in Latin America has an unprecedented social base: the middle classes (and a part of the popular sectors) culturally modeled by extractivism.
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Mauricio Macri supporters in Argentina. Magalí Iglesias/Flickr. Some rights reserved.
A new right is emerging in several parts of the world. In Latin America, it has a profile of its own and a new,...
December 30, 2016
Radicalism is nothing but a byproduct of misinformation coming back to haunt us
The youth today have a different thinking process/BIGSTOCK
As a journalist, I often come across young people who are eager to listen to my views on global events which often cannot be explained unequivocally.
During the invasion of Iraq and then Libya, the common questions were around the...
December 30, 2016
There are a little less than 4 lakh Catholic priests in the world, actually 3.92 lakh in 1992, the year for which authentic data is available. Every year many are killed, injured or arrested in the world’s hotspots, from the steamy forests of Latin America where they face hostile governments and drug lords, through to Indonesia, Malaysia, and occasionally, India. And now,...
December 29, 2016
Several incidents of organised violence against ethnic and religious minorities took place in 2016.
Opportunistic groups have used religion as a political device creating an atmosphere of fear making hundreds of minorities leave Bangladesh in large numbers that experts say they have not seen since the Liberation War.
Although the constitution protects religious freedom and ensures...
December 28, 2016
Over the past months, hundreds of indigenous persons and their allies have gathered near the crossing of the Missouri and Cannon Ball rivers in the ancestral territories of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Using nonviolent means, their goal is to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) that would connect production fields in North Dakota to refineries in Illinois. Their primary fear...
December 27, 2016
Last year at this time, a Mondoweiss video report showed one of the checkpoints Palestinian day laborers have to use to enter Israel. It takes hours for the thousands of men seeking day work to get through the checkpoint.
And since they’re not allowed to stay in Israel overnight, they queue at two or three in the morning, sleeping on cardboard, lighting fires with scrap wood, until...
December 26, 2016
The “alternative right” or alt-right, has made expert use of blogs, tweets, hashtags, memes, and trolling to provide a legitimised voice to far-right ideas – and to use that voice to speak to huge amounts of people.
Alright with the alt-right? PA
Far-right movements are clearly on the rise throughout Europe and the US. Winning elections in the US and campaigns to leave the...
December 25, 2016
"On the night before Christmas, we’ll all be about. While the people are sleeping, we’ll realise our clout. We’ll expropriate goods from the stores, ‘cos that’s fair. And distribute them widely, to those who need care".
Can we reclaim Christmas for the masses? Credit: Grace Wilson/STRIKE! magazine.
It’s no surprise to discover...
December 25, 2016
The Egyptian state has composed what looks like a closed circuit of public despair and emotional drainage.
Julie Jacobson/AP/Press Association Images. Photo courtesy: openDemocracy
“God created me a doctor... a doctor able to diagnose the case... He created me like this. I know the truth and I see it. Hear it from me. Even the world now, they are all saying 'Listen to him......