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  • The face of Karl Marx

    150 years of Das Kapital: How relevant is Marx today?

    Originally published: Al Jazeera on August, 22 2017 (more by Al Jazeera)

    This is a book that has been pronounced dead or obsolete many times, but it keeps bouncing back, with the latest recovery in interest and sales just after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. So why do so many people all over the world still read (or try to read) Karl Marx’s Capital today?

  • Iran: The Green Movement and US Foreign Policy

    Riz Khan and Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich and Azadeh Moaveni and Hillary Mann Leverett

      Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich: . . . I think there’s nothing new that the West is painting a distorted image of what’s going on in Iran.  I also want to mention that it’s very normal to have political dissent in any country.  Iran is not unique in that sense.  But what’s happening is by distorting the […]

  • Somalia: Daunting Challenges

    Stig Hansen

      The parliament broadened by the Djibouti peace process elected Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, chairman of the executive council of the Islamic Courts Union, as President of Somalia.  The Ethiopian occupation alone had failed to shore up the Transitional Federal Government, so Washington had to try a new tack.  Al Jazeera’s report, however, indicates trouble […]