Albert Camus would have been 100 this November had he lived beyond the car crash which took his life in 1960. Upon receiving the Nobel Prize he said, “the nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments: refusal to lie about what we know and resistance to oppression.”
A new novel by Greg Guma offers a tale of intrigue and mystery, bringing up the issues surrounding surveillance in a world newly aware of the ever-expanding panopticon.
How did the biggest-ever mobilization of fast-food workers come about, and what is its endgame?
In a country that uses every possible occasion to celebrate its “warriors,” many have forgotten that today’s holiday originally marked a peace agreement. Veterans Day in the United States originally was called Armistice Day and commemorated the ceasefire which, at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, ended the First World War.
Challenging the falsehoods and simplifications that surrounded the so-called Arab Spring from the very start doesn’t necessarily mean that one is in doubt of the very notion that genuine revolutions have indeed gripped various Arab countries for nearly three years.
What happens when the much lessened power of the erstwhile hegemonic power seems clear to other countries is that relative order in the world-system is replaced by a chaotic struggle among multiple poles of power, none of which can control the situation.
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