Posts Tagged ‘repression’

How Movements Can Succeed In The Face Of Government Repression

Above Photo: Christian JSger/ Getty Imges Published in collaboration with the Peace Science Digest, which summarizes and reflects on current academic research in the field of peace and conflict studies. A greater number of resistance movements are choosing to adopt nonviolent forms of struggle as the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance becomes more widely known. At the […]

The Battle for Palestine on US Campuses: a review of ‘We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics’

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics Edited by William I. Robinson and Maryam S. Griffin Forward by Cynthia McKinney and Preface by Richard Falk 280 pp. AK Press, 2017. $19.95. There are many ways to try to silence people whose ideas you don’t like. You can bully, blackmail, violate, isolate, […]

Listen: MLA anti-boycott vote could encourage repression

Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 4 July 2017 Dozens of scholars have condemned a recent vote by members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) to “refrain from endorsing” the academic boycott of Israeli institutions complicit in violations of Palestinian rights. The adoption of an explicitly anti-boycott measure by the MLA, the main academic association […]

eBOOK: The Black Book of Communism – Crimes, Terror, Repression

“The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression” (1999) Review from Amazon.com: When it was first published in France in 1997, Le livre noir du Communisme touched off a storm of controversy that continues to rage today. Even some of his contributors shied away from chief editor Stéphane Courtois’s conclusion that Communism, in all its […]

Settler State Repression: Standing Rock Battles Continue In The Courts

Above Photo: Indigenous rights activists at a tipi camp set up to protest the Dakota Access pipeline, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on March 9, 2017. (Photo: Al Drago / The New York Times) As a means of making bombing, sanctioning or invading other countries palatable to the general population, the US government has […]

International May Day 2017: Mass Marches and Police Repression

Independent Media: Providing the Truth about Empire and Repression

‘Turkey coup plotter’ Gulen: Failed uprising could have been ‘staged’ by Erdogan himself

LIVE UPDATES: Arrests after coup attempt in Turkey “There is a possibility that it could be a staged coup, by Mr Erdogan’s AKP Party, and it could be meant for further accusations, against the Gulenists and the military,” Fathullah Gulen, who is in exile in Pennsylvania, told the media Saturday. Turkey says US is ‘no […]

Hundreds Of Groups Demand: Obama Leave Carbon In The Ground

Print Friendly Above Photo: Climate change activists’ graffiti on a billboard near the Didcot coal-fired power station in Oxfordshire, UK. Photograph: Tim Myers Historic Petition Calls on Obama Administration to Immediately Halt All New Fossil Fuel Leases on Federal Lands WASHINGTON— More than 250 climate, community and tribal organizations filed a landmark legal petition today calling on […]

Selected Articles: Militarization And Police Violence in America

Zarif felicitates Muslim nations on Eid al-Fitr

Tehran, July 6, IRNA – Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif on Wednesday congratulated Muslim governments and nations on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. ‘May we unite in prayer and practice to cleanse our faith and Ummah from the violence and hatered promoted by extremist demagogues,’ Zarif said in a post in his twitter account. The first […]

Anti-Pipeline Activists, Eminent Domain Experts Gather In Atlanta

Print Friendly Above Photo: by christina rutz/flickr Private property rights activists and environmentalists met in Georgia June 14-15 to discuss strategies for fighting energy companies’ growing use of eminent domain to build natural gas, oil and petroleum products pipelines on private property across the United States. Many of the approximately 70 people who gathered in downtown […]

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

Print Friendly Above Photo: People stage a rally in Okinawa over American military presence in Japan. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa […]

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

Print Friendly Above Photo: People stage a rally in Okinawa over American military presence in Japan. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa […]

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

Print Friendly Above Photo: People stage a rally in Okinawa over American military presence in Japan. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa […]

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

Print Friendly Above Photo: People stage a rally in Okinawa over American military presence in Japan. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa […]

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

Print Friendly Above Photo: People stage a rally in Okinawa over American military presence in Japan. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa […]

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

Print Friendly Above Photo: People stage a rally in Okinawa over American military presence in Japan. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa […]

Thousands Protest At US Bases On Okinawa After Japanese Woman’s Murder

Print Friendly Above Photo: People stage a rally in Okinawa over American military presence in Japan. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Protest marks new low for US and Japanese relations over Okinawa with threats to have US air station moved to another part of the island Tens of thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa […]

NATO ships would live for ten minutes max if they attack Russia

NATO ships would live for ten minutes max if they attack Russia SEE ALSO NATO War Games Near Russia `Pushing Humanity Towards World War III` Russian military officials said that Bastion systems and the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy will watch another missile destroyer of the Sixth Fleet of the United States in […]

Never explained mystery of star-shaped towers of the Himalayas

     The Himalayan Towers are a series of stone towers located mostly in Tibet. Carbon dating shows they were built approximately 500 to 1,100 years ago. Since they are generally located in prosperous villages, it is believed that their primary function was as a demonstration of a family’s prestige within the community. For strength, many […]

New UK Health Contract A Disaster

Defying an unprecedented wave of strikes by the U.K. medical establishment, the government announced last week that junior doctors working for the National Health Service will be forced to accept a new contract that increases their working hours, reduces their pay and removes safeguards designed to prevent them from being overworked. Twenty-four hour strikes by […]

Terrorist Retreat: Syrian Forces Break Through ISIS Frontline. U.S. Weapons Airdrops to Terrorists

Source Article from http://www.globalresearch.ca/terrorist-retreat-syrian-forces-break-through-isis-frontline-u-s-weapons-airdrops-to-terrorists/5486908

Acuerdo bilateral de inversiones entre China y Costa Rica aprobado en primer debate: breves apuntes

El pasado 27 de octubre, en avanzadas horas de la noche se aprobó en primer debate por parte de la Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica el  “Acuerdo Bilateral para la Promoción y Protección de Inversiones” entre Costa Rica y China, suscrito en Beijing el 24 de octubre del 2007 (ver  nota  de CRHoy): el resultado […]

Egypt uses sexual violence as a tool of repression: Report

Egypt’s women and opposition face unprecendented levels of state-sanctioned sexualised violence, despite President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s promises to uphold Egyptian revolutionaries’ calls for ‘freedom’, ‘justice’ and ‘dignity’ when he took over nearly two years ago. According to a damning report published on Tuesday by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), sexual and gender-based violence […]

Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

  Jeffrey R. YoungThe Chronicle September 27, 2011 Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most of its citizens from the […]

The 2nd Edge Of Modern Financial Repression: Manipulating Inflation Indexes To Steal From Retirees & Public Workers

  Daniel R. Amerman CFAGold Seek September 13, 2011 Financial Repression is the academic term for how governments can pay down enormous debts by forcing interest rates below the rate of inflation, and then systematically confiscate the purchasing power of their citizens’ savings over time, while keeping people from being able to escape or defend […]

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