In Freedom Next Time, John Pilger explores five countries, exposing the contradictions between the actions viewed by the people of the land and the words of rationalization supplied by the politicians. Pilger's writing is clear and accessible, presenting a picture of people struggling against the almost overwhelming power of the global corporate elite.
This is election year in Pakistan. Political parties are trying to keep the military out of politics. The country's civil society is pushing for free speech in a nation whose history has been shaped by military coups.
In early February 2007 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its strongest statement yet on global warming. According to a 20-page summary of the report, the warming of the Earth will continue for centuries, even if greenhouse gas concentrations are stabilized.
Fifty years ago, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to achieve independence. And fifty years ago, in the fall of 1957, my father took my brother and me - just out of high school - to visit this new nation, and to interview Ghana's prime minister Kwame Nkrumah and the other shining lights of the Pan-African independence movement.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is, among many things, a Somali-born feminist and former Dutch parliamentarian. Her name gained worldwide attention in 2004 after Theo Van Gogh, the grandnephew of the famous Dutch painter, was murdered for his work with Ali on their short film Submission, an artistic statement on the status of women in Islam.
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