These are my links for March 23rd through April 3rd: ZNet – Cowardice Pays: Reflections on Academic Abdication and a Paul Krugman Lecture in Iowa City – Excellent piece criticizing the defeatist attitudes of even the most “lefty” of mainstream academic pundits and their professorial minions Annotated link NDP admits …
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More on the “General Strikes”—مزيد من الكلام عن الإضرابات العامة
ّI just read a few of my friend Daïkha Dridi’s articles and they made me a bit depressed. Mostly because, even after all this time with Arabic, I could largely read them in French, even with my 17-year-old high-school French that I never practiced with actual French-speakers. I could skim …
Facebookists for Regime Change—الفيسبوكيون لتغيير النظام
Collection of Facebook banners by Sami Ben Gharbia/Global Voices Advocacy This article was commissioned for Is Greater Than When Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old Harvard drop-out, launched Facebook in 2004, he could not have imagined that one day his project would become the primary organizing tool for a vast movement of …