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?
Source: The Nation
Will the country will take a step toward democracy, or remain mired in corruption and repression?
Four years after a military coup deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, Hondurans have a chance with their November 24 elections to restore a measure of democracy. The stakes are high: either Honduras will plunge deeper into its vortex of violence and repression, or it will have a fighting chance to begin to re-establish the rule of law and construct a viable economy. On a broader level, the Honduran elections will test whether Latin America’s transition to democracy and social justice will be permitted to advance—in what Secretary of State John Kerry still refers to as “our backyard.”
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.
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