Palestinians take the fight to their occupiers in Bab al-Shams When the Palestinian leadership won their upgrade to non-member observer status at the United Nations in November, plenty of sceptics on both sides of the divide questioned what practical benefits would accrue to the Palestinians. The doubters have not been silenced yet.

Durante la primera semana de 2013 se desataron protestas sociales a escala mundial, regional y nacional. Es un indicio de los movimientos sociales que se están articulando para el nuevo año. Los pueblos del mundo y el panameño, en particular, están cada vez mejor organizados y no seguirán tolerando las acciones de despojo de los [...]

Las autoridades gubernamentales reiteradamente nos dicen que quieren dialogar y nos muestran que el movimiento anti–Conga es el que se niega al diálogo. La verdad es completamente opuesta: Quien busca el diálogo es el movimiento anti-Conga y el gobierno se niega a él.

What do a Palestinian farmer who is living in a village tucked in between the secluded West Bank hills, a prisoner on hunger strike in an Israeli jail and a Palestinian refugee roaming the Middle East for shelter all have in common? They are all characters in one single, authentic, solid and cohesive narrative. The [...]

pero en ellos se encontraba el secreto de Costa Rica…   Prólogo Juan Carlos firmó el último documento de esa mañana, su paso por la oficina fue breve. Le dijo a su secretaria que volvería después de almuerzo y que por favor se disculpara con dos citas que iban a tener que ser reprogramadas. En algún momento pensó [...]

I don’t claim to know exactly what’s going on with #IdleNoMore, the surging movement of indigenous activists that started late last year in Canada and is now spreading across the continent — much of the action, from hunger strikes to road and rail blockades, is in scattered and remote places, and even as people around [...]

Idle No More has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what’s coming next? It took weeks of protests, flash mobs, letters, rallies, and thousands of righteous tweets, but Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally caved. He agreed to a meeting with the woman who had [...]

Cuando las leyes de hierro de la lucha de clases hacen temblar el precario equilibrio del capitalismo argentino en más de 40 ciudades a través del estallido social de los des-integrados y la juventud pobre, los que mandan intentan explicar con demagogia y teorías conspirativas lo más obvio. Joven, moreno, provinciano y repobre; muchacha y muchacho [...]

With Alice Walker, Randy Weston, Walter Mosley, Gore Vidal and More Today we look at the nexus of politics and art, airing highlights of our cultural coverage from the past year featuring Alice Walker, Walter Mosley, Tony Kushner, Randy Weston, Steve Earle, Randall Robinson, Toshi Reagon, Tom Morello and others. We pay tribute to the late [...]

Megatrends, Game-Changers, Black Swans, Tectonic Shifts, and a World Not That Different From 2012 Think of it as a simple formula: if you’ve been hired (and paid handsomely) to protect what is, you’re going to be congenitally ill-equipped to imagine what might be.  And yet the urge not just to know the contours of the [...]