Since March 2012, Mali has been effectively divided into two roughly equal halves. As the conflict unfolds, what will happen next is unknown. One knows how an armed conflict starts but rarely how it might end.
Women’s rights have been in the forefront of international of international concern over the last few weeks.
An authentic Palestinian narrative – one that is positioned within an original Palestinian history and articulated through Palestinian thought – is mostly absent from western media and to a lesser degree, academia.
Who might have imagined, when 2012 was dawning, that the failures of capitalism – especially as seen through inequality which is crescendoing like a bottle rocket -would become standard dinner-table conversation in the US? Motley Occupiers around the country achieved that.
Canada’s growing Idle No More movement is rippling beyond its borders. And it is sparking much needed action and dialogue as it spreads.
It seems the world has survived December 21st. But will humanity survive the relentless and reckless pursuit of resources and wealth that capitalism continues to foist upon us? Or will the yearning for change represented by the Occupy movement and the Mayan ‘New Age’ of renewal help us make the ‘evolutionary leap’ to a new path for humanity? We hope so.
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