Midnight of Haiti’s Parliament on the Earthquake’s Anniversary
Just as the earthquake had rattled the ground under the feet of Haitians, the dissolution of the Haitian Parliament at midnight, 00:00 on January 12, 2015, exactly five years later, has shaken to the core Haiti’s republican institutions. Right at the day’s start, the terms expired for all 99 members of the House of Representatives […]
Jokowi’s Indonesia: Prime Example of Global Neoliberalism’s Failure
In September 2014, Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, the country with the biggest Muslim population worldwide, the tenth largest economy on the planet, and the largest archipelago in the world elected its leader for the upcoming five years. It was a tight race between two contenders: Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, and Prabowo […]
Charlie Hebdo: Interview of Gilbert Mercier on PRN Leid Stories
“In the world of political satire, the killing of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo would be the equivalent, in the 18th century, of having Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, and Montesquieu killed in the same room at the same time.” – Gilbert Mercier Twelve people, most of them journalists and cartoonists, were assassinated during an editorial meeting […]
Dynamics of Political and Social Change
People within a society, state, or international milieu, possess the collective capacity to organize. Assuming a human proclivity for association and organization helps to explain the inception of a social seedbed, which gives rise to a cultivable political process. This notion is very much in line with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s treatment of sovereignty within a state, […]
Sustainable Ways to Feed the World Are Subverted by Corporations
Humans’ relationship to food is one of the most fundamentally shaping aspects of our societies. The sole fact that the majority of the world’s population now lives in urban centers is the direct result of a process that began approximately 10,000 years ago. This process was the switch from nomadic hunting-gathering societies to urban sedentary […]
