World Cup 2014: Beautiful Game Showcases Ugly Inequality
The biggest sporting event of the planet kicks off in Brazil on June 12, 2014. Football, or soccer as it is called in a semi-demeaning manner in the United States, is by far the most popular sport worldwide. As an example, more than 1.3 billion people watched the television broadcast of the final of the […]
Gitmo Survivor Moazzam Begg: The Man Who Knows Too Much
Nine years after being freed from Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Moazzam Begg was arrested once again and charged with “providing terrorist training and funding terrorism overseas.” This latest arrest, on February 25, 2014, is the third time this century that Begg has been arrested in the United Kingdom and his computers or storage systems removed. […]
Fight for Haiti’s Ile a Vache: Interview With KOPI’s Jerome Genest
The Organization of Ile a Vache Farmers (KOPI, or Konbit Peyizan Ilavach) has been at the vanguard of a fight between the residents of this traditionally agricultural 20-square mile island off of the southern coast of Haiti and the country’s executive branch. The conflict began after the administration decreed Ile a Vache to be a […]
Complicity of Australia and New Zealand in US Drone Assassinations
The Joint Defense Facility at Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, has had something of an iniquitous history in the Australian political landscape. It is, more than anything, a sign of the pressing inequalities of the Australian-United States relationship. “Joint command” is a misnomer, given that the facility is under US control. The Pine Gap facility, […]
The Moral Economy of India: Modi as the Anti-Gandhi
Anyone familiar with Nietzsche’s writings would observe that, apart from the fact that he wrote diverse fragments on almost everything that constitutes existence, he often contradicted himself. Nonetheless he was, here and there, remarkably consistent when it came to hating Jews, women, feminists and socialists. His writings are filled with malicious sentiments against them. For […]
