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Archives for December 2013

Afghanistan
Interview with Jeremy Scahill Questions "War on Terror"

Interview with Jeremy Scahill Questions “War on Terror”

Juan Cole

Euronews asks Jeremy Scahill about his new film, “Dirty Wars,” which has been nominated for an Academy Award. Scahill was also recently interviewed at Democracy Now! “AMY GOODMAN: Jeremy, this report that just came out from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism that more people have been killed in drone strikes in the six months after […]

Human Rights
Crystal Night Must not be Repeated versus other European Minorities

Crystal Night Must not be Repeated versus other European Minorities

csstester

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim, Amsterdam Crystal Night took place on the night between 9 and 10 November 1938. Across the whole of Nazi Germany and parts of Austria, a pogrom was held against Jews. Jewish synagogues, shops, homes and businesses were ransacked which led to the atrocity becoming known as Chrystal Night after the shards of […]

Africa
Today's South Africa by the Numbers (with Photos)

Today’s South Africa by the Numbers (with Photos)

Juan Cole

Population of South Africa: 51 million (slightly larger than South Korea) Annual Gross Domestic Product (nominal): $384 billion (in neighborhood of Taiwan, Austria, UAE) Rank among world economies: 29 Rank among African economies: 1 Amount GDP has grown since end of white rule in 1994: 3 times Number of people added to middle class in […]

Africa
Photo of the Day: Apartheid South Africa Sign

Photo of the Day: Apartheid South Africa Sign

Juan Cole

This sign is left over from Apartheid days and is preserved under an awning in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa as a reminder of what was. I photographed it in August, 2012. —— Related video: For more context, the BBC has a minute-and-a-half review of the horrible institution of Apartheid in South Africa:

Africa
Photo of the Day: Mandela Training in Algeria

Photo of the Day: Mandela Training in Algeria

Juan Cole

h/t Sami Ben Gharbia ‏@ifikra Nelson Mandela training with the Algerian Liberation Front in 1962. The Algerians fought an 8-year war, 1954-1962, to become independent from French imperialism, in the course of which between half a million and a million Algerians died (the population of the country was then 11 million). In 1962, South Africa […]

Book of condolence to open at South African embassy in Abu Dhabi

Book of condolence to open at South African embassy in Abu Dhabi

News Aggregator

Ambassador to the UAE also plans memorial service in Abu Dhabi next week.

Yemen attacks should be assessed in terms of internal political conflicts

Yemen attacks should be assessed in terms of internal political conflicts

News Aggregator

Attacks in Yemen are a part of the political transition that’s taking place there, and as for the Islamist groups there is a deep degree of skepticism amongst the public that they actually exist, James Corbett, host of The Corbett Report, told RT.Read Full Article at RT.com

Africa
Mandela:  We want equal Political Rights; When Protest was Outlawed, we chose Sabotage

Mandela: We want equal Political Rights; When Protest was Outlawed, we chose Sabotage

Juan Cole

Mandela’s declaration to the court as his trial began in Pretoria at the Supreme Court of South Africa on April 20, 1964 I am the first accused. I hold a bachelor’s degree in arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted […]

Environment
NAS: From Ice Sheet Collapse to Mass Extinctions, You're not Ready for Climate Change

NAS: From Ice Sheet Collapse to Mass Extinctions, You’re not Ready for Climate Change

Juan Cole

By John Queally Hang on. Get Ready. Those are at least two of the takeaways from a new report released by scientists in the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday which says the sudden impacts of climate change this century and beyond are inevitable but warn that far too little has been done to prepare […]

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