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 […]
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 […]
Haiti: Time for Clinton and Co to Pack and Go
Once more, we have tasted salt. We have mourned our dead from the earthquake and the cholera epidemic. The collective depression, the temporary zombification has lifted. It is time to evict the occupier and pursue the traitors and enemies of our independence. No exception. This is not the first time the United States has occupied […]
The Myth of India as a Superpower
The verdict of the world press is finally out: India, they say, is no longer a poor, despicable country as depicted by orientalist European cinema and novels but is now a superpower. To strengthen their argument, they show us India’s nuclear arsenal. If this does not suffice, they show us that the wealth of the […]
