Morsi’s Coup in Egypt: Is the Middle-East Headed for a Muslim Brotherhood Takeover?
Was Morsi’s coup a payoff from Washington for brokering the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel? Today, Egypt went back to square one, as if the Egyptian Revolution never happened. Egyptians now have a new Mubarak in the person of President Morsi. Morsi has assumed extended power over all the branches of government, including the judiciary. […]
Occupy Strategy: Global Strike and Consumer Boycott Should Be on the Agenda
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published, with the very same title, on December 8, 2011. At the time, no significant actions had been taken by Occupy in conjunction with labor movements to take on global capitalism with the peaceful, yet most effective tools of exploited workers: strike and consumer boycott by other citizens to […]
India: Can Ecosocialism Protect Indigenous People from Capitalist Exploitation?
By Sutapa Chattopadhyay In developing nations, from the mid-20th century onwards, the state and global planners have sanctioned development through subjugation of the local poor. This is done by controlling and commodifying their space, and by centralizing and privatizing commonly held resources by forcibly disassociating the poor from their material bases and livelihoods in the […]
Will the Slaughter in Gaza Trigger a Real Arab Revolution?
Israel’s attack on Gaza: “C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute.” The comment “C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute!” (This is worse than a crime, it’s a mistake!), followed the execution of the Duc d’Enghien by Napoleon Bonaparte. Shortly thereafter, this was viewed by Napoleon’s own chief of police Fouché and French diplomat Talleyrand […]
Israel’s Attack on Gaza Could Be the Opening Salvo of World War III
Chief Rabbi Sacks: “I think it’s Got to Do with Iran” Overnight Israel carried more than 150 air strikes on targets in Gaza. Israel has the intention to “break Hamas,” and is meanwhile indiscriminately punishing the Palestinian people using the usual pretext of “stopping more missile attacks on Israel by Hamas militants.” But the tensions […]
