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Geography Archives: Europe
Countries in the continent of Europe
This Alien Legacy: The Origins of “Sodomy” Laws in British Colonialism: I. Introduction
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Six Prominent American Freethinkers
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General Strike in Greece: “Next Thursday Would Be a Good Day for Solidarity Action All around the World” — Nikos Lountos
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Political Crisis Exposes Canada’s National, Class Divisions
OTTAWA — In a classic 19th century work, English journalist Walter Bagehot divided the Constitution into two parts. The “efficient” part — the executive (cabinet) and legislative — was responsible for the business of government. The “dignified” part, the Queen, was to put a human face on the capitalist state. Bagehot noted, however, that the […]
Africom: From Bush to Obama
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No Tax-collection without Representation! The Fight for Trade Union Independence in Egypt
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Transforming “the Nursery of Rebellion”
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Bernanke and “The Great Moderation” Four Years Later
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Reflections on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Likely Impact on South Africa
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Feel the Real Cost of Prisons
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Everyday Life in Central Asia
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Struggling for Peace on New Terrain
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Bailout — an End Run around Bankruptcy
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One Hundred and Fifty Years of Marx’s Grundrisse: Incomplete, Complex and Prophetic
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Indigenous Peoples Rising in Bolivia and Ecuador
Introduction Indigenous peoples in Indo-Afro-Latin America, especially Bolivia and Ecuador, are rising up to take control of their own lives and act in solidarity with others to save the planet. They are calling for new, yet ancient, practices of plurinational, participatory, and intercultural democracy. They champion ecologically sustainable development; community-based autonomies; and solidarity with other […]
Socialism’s New American Opportunity
The US left today confronts a remarkable opportunity. George Bush and Sarah Palin effectively reopened the explicit debate over capitalism versus socialism. More than that, their interventions, combined with the current crisis of capitalism, disrupt the conventional, classic definitions of both isms. Thus, the debate over them is now transformed in advantageous ways for the […]
Ferment and Fetters in the Study of Kurdish Nationalism
Hakan Ozoglu. Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. xv + 186 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5. Identifying Kurdish nationalism as “one of the most explosive and critical predicaments in the Middle East,” the author notes that “the subject regrettably […]
Icelanders Protest, Clash with Police
Thousands of Icelanders protested in Reykjavik on Saturday, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Geir Haarde and Central Bank Governor David Oddsson, for bankrupting their country. A group of protesters also stormed the city’s central police station to release one of the protesters arrested the day before. ITN News, 23 November 2008
The Meeting with Hu Jintao
I did not want to talk a lot, but he obliged me to expand on things; I asked some questions and, basically, listened to him. His words recounted the feats of the Chinese people in the last 10 months. Heavy and unseasonal snowfall, an earthquake that devastated surface areas equivalent to three times the size […]
