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Obama, Guantánamo, and US Hypocrisy

Take-home message: Gitmo is a symptom. Barack Obama is a symptom. Obama promising to close Gitmo is like placing a band-aid over a cancerous tumor.…

Hungry to Organize for Democracy

Ethiopian-born Washington D.C. community activist Abdulaziz Kamus has survived political persecution, civil war, genocide and life in a new country to make the American dream happen for him. Now he…

Why An Asshole is Always in Charge

John Thain is the guy that looks like a Clark Kent doll you saw grinning from page one of your paper Friday morning. Thain was just fired by Bank of…

The Order to Destroy has been Given

My mobile phone vibrates. The UN through OCHA writes that three more houses are being demolished today, more people are about to become homeless.…

Dam Nation

"Every morning when I awake, I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam," Derrick Jensen writes. "I've written books and done activism, but it is neither…

Did Benazir Die for Democracy?

South Asians are sentimental people. Over the centuries, their romanticism about revered historical and religious icons has shaped their political psyche of nurturing personality cults. To this add their ignorance…

Who will save Israel from itself?

The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is entering its third week. Israel says it has managed to destroy most of the Hamas targets, an ‘achievement’ that came with a price tag…

Struggling with the Khmer Language

Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, is a Mon Khmer language, which has roots in Sanskrit and Pali, two very ancient Indian languages. Said another way, it was completely different…

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