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, by Global Voices

Egypt: Crackdown on Peaceful Pro-democracy Protests

On the second anniversary of the first call for civil disobedience in the history of modern Egypt, new protests broke out through out the country. Egyptian police violently beat and randomly detained people to disperse protests calling for constitutional reform. Read more here and here
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, by India together

Politics: In need of revival

The decline of politics and of intellectual discourse is related to the struggle between politics and economics as the arbiter of the moral commons and the role of the developmental state in this fight, writes Rajesh Kasturirangan. ead more

, by Frontline

Sardar Sarovar Project ‘The struggle cannot be over’

MEDHA PATKAR, the 56-year-old leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), is fighting what she calls the “final battle”. After close to three decades of protests against the damming of the Narmada river, she is battling against the Gujarat government’s attempt to raise the height of the Sardar (...)

, par CETRI

Le Brésil de Lula : un bilan contrasté

Cetri, Vol. XVII-2010/1

Au terme du deuxième et dernier mandat présidentiel de Lula, et au-delà de son extraordinaire popularité, quel bilan tirer de ses huit années à la tête du Brésil ?
Les commentateurs ne manqueront pas de souligner les acquis du « lulisme » : une santé économique impressionnante, des indices (...)

, par RUELLAN Alain

Science et démocratie en Amazonie

Autres Brésils

L’Amazonie est actuellement assujettie à trois types de comportements humains : ceux qui l’exploitent en dégradant ses caractéristiques naturelles, ceux qui la considèrent intouchable et, enfin, ceux qui croient qu’il est possible d’établir une relation environnementale harmonieuse. Cependant, (...)

, by The Hindu

At healthcare’s fountainhead

A success story from Tamil Nadu in the field of HIV-AIDS prevention and control, involving education and communication paradigms that bring about changes in healthcare-seeking behaviour. The project’s innovation was the engagement of “high-risk group members” as community health personnel. (...)

, by Pambazuka

South Africa: The next frontier for land occupations?

‘There is no doubt that South Africa will become the next frontier for "land invasions"’, writes Grasian Mkodzongi, ‘the situation in the country is a ticking time bomb. It’s almost impossible to think that a system of extreme injustice and poverty reflected across the country could be (...)

, by Eurozine , Index on Censorship

Cyber wars

While the role of technology in the political struggle in Iran and elsewhere should not be overstated, it should not be underestimated either. The "next generation" controls with which authorities aim to manage the Internet mark a shift from heavy-handed filtering to sophisticated (...)

, by Tehelka

See No Evil Hear No Evil

Activist Kitiry Roy’s arrest is a reminder of shrinking democratic space, says Thusha Mittal. His crime — holding a public hearing; holding the State accountable; attempting to hold the Constitution to its best face. In the FIR against Roy by the Anti-terrorist cell of Kolkata Police, the (...)

Colombia: Escenarios posibles de guerra o paz

Universidad Nacional de Colombia , 2010, 335 páginas.

Entre las posibilidades que se plantean y que son mencionadas por los autores del libro, se encuentran: la derrota militar de alguno de los actores enfrentados o la solución política negociada. Aunque el fortalecimiento y modernización de las Fuerzas Armadas y la implementación de la Política (...)

, por Rebelión

Chomsky alerta sobre el auge de la ultraderecha en EEUU

por David Brooks

La derecha se alimenta de la frustración y avanzan ultraconservadores como el Tea Party. Se persigue a latinos y negros como Alemania lo hizo con judíos, asegura el intelectual.
El desencanto con el gobierno y los políticos ha crecido a niveles sin precedente a últimas fechas según sondeos; (...)

, by Tehelka

Building Stone Scarecrows

Nonviolent rights activits in Gujarat are being branded maoists and jailed, reports Parvaiz Bukhari. Dangs is the smallest and perhaps the most scenic Adivasi district of Gujarat. As you soak in the beauty and breathe the fresh air, Ashish Pawar, a young Adivasi activist acting as a guide, (...)

, par BEAUDET Pierre

Le Brésil de Lula, huit ans plus tard

En 2002, le Brésil surprend le monde en élisant à la présidence de la république un ouvrier syndicaliste. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, fondateur et chef du Parti des travailleurs (PT) est en effet emblématique d’un grand mouvement populaire qui a déstabilisé la dictature au tournant des années (...)

, por Repórter Brasil

"Efeito Gilmar Mendes" aguça conflitos no campo, avalia CPT

Por Bianca Pyl

Declarações do ex-presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) deram suporte ao alto número de despejos e também ao aumento das prisões, segundo Antônio Canuto, da coordenação da Comissão Pastoral da Terra
O número de torturados em decorrência de conflito agrários aumentou de 6, em 2008, (...)

Who Rules the Waves? Piracy, Overfishing and Mining the Oceans

Denise Russell, Pluto Press, 208 p., 2010

With piracy raging in the Indian Ocean, international disputes over undersea oil and gas, and chronic overfishing, the oceans have rarely been subject to such varied and environmentally damaging conflict outside a world war. In Who Rules the Waves? Denise Russell gives us a rare insight into (...)

, by SACSIS

The Unspoken Risks of Cell Phones and Wireless Networks

Africa has been catapulted into the electronic age over the past decade and a half by an almost incomprehensibly swift growth in telecommunications technology driven primarily by a massive rollout of cell phones and wireless technology throughout the continent.
While few can deny the (...)

, by OpenDemocracy

Nigeria and the politics of massacre

In Nigeria, patterns of “religious” massacre are many decades old, but it is wrong to see this as simple “sectarianism”. A poor society facing modernisation at the hands of corrupt elites is vulnerable to the use of violence as a means of asserting economic and political power and the (...)