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| Global Justice
Part II: The global crisis that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and the Occupy Wall Street movement The International Context of Global Outrage (in 5 parts)
In 2007, the capitalist sky started to darken: the biggest crisis of capitalism since the 1930s had erupted. The different crises that ensued were interconnected: the banking and financial crisis, real estate crisis, and economic crisis in the most industrialized countries, and the food crises in the Southern countries, particularly in Africa and certain Asian countries (Latin America was less significantly affected), which mainly resulted from the economic policies practiced in the most industrialized countries, in particular the shift away from real estate speculation (when the housing bubble broke) towards the grains futures markets; and support for biofuel production. -> read article... |
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| Syria
“Build networks of popular resistance around a democratic charter” Interview with Gilbert Achcar
We are publishing here for the first time in English an interview with Gilbert Achcar, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (SOAS). The interview was conducted in Arabic by Oudai al-Zoubi for the daily “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”, and published in its edition of August 25, 2012. -> read article... |
| Pakistan
Salmaan Taseer: The political context of a “religious” assassinationJust over a year ago, Salmaan Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s largest province, the Punjab, was assassinated in the most cowardly manner by a government-assigned security guard in federal capital, Islamabad. The killer, a trained commando of the Punjab Elite Force, Mumtaz Qadri, pumped 27 bullets into the Governor’s back as he headed to his car on the afternoon of January 4, 2012. -> read article... |
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