Frantz Fanon

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First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Racists

“Jean-Louis Belavoix had stood up amid the applause that followed Bates’s exhibition, and had begun all at once to speak in a loud voice. ‘How absurd, Mr Bates!’ He called down. ‘Are we really to believe that men differ from each other simply because ... [Published Thought Leader - May 07 2013]
First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

camus on algeria

“People expect too much of writers,” Albert Camus lamented in the late 1950s. At the time Camus was writing, the Algerian rebellion had grown into a full-scale guerrilla war for independence, and while his initial sympathy for the uprising led the ... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 01 2013]
First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean

The latest book by Dr Louise Hardwick, lecturer in French Studies and expert in Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, and the Haitian diaspora in contemporary Canada), was published this month."This book examines a major modern turn in ... [Published University of Birmingham - Apr 23 2013]
First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Ideas and ideologies

I am happy that Yaqoob Khan Bangash has noted that we are increasingly a people that set little store by ideas; indeed, as I have seen, most of us abhor, downright, the idea of dealing with and in ideas. That Bangash noted this while speaking at the International ... [Published The Express Tribune - Apr 23 2013]
First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

The people shall obey

President Zuma’s speech seemed to equate criticism of the government with disloyalty. The path to national glory has been laid out and no one should ask any questionsIn his speech at the memorial service for the soldiers who were killed in the Central ... [Published Pambazuka News - Apr 18 2013]
First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 1 reports

The pessimism

For Wordsworth, “bliss was it in that dawn to be alive; but to be young was very heaven”. However, a recent report shows ‘deep pessimism’ amongst 96 percent of the surveyed youth. Their view: Pakistan is headed in the wrong direction. Twenty-nine percent ... [Published The News International - Apr 13 2013]
First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

How To Make Uganda Globally Competitive [opinion]

Before Uhuru Kenyatta was declared president-elect of Kenya, a friend shared a picture of the dual-carriage Nairobi-Mombasa road on Facebook. In the picture, the right-hand side of the road, used by trucks transporting goods to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi ... [Published Individual.com - Apr 12 2013]
First reported Feb 01 2013 - Updated Feb 01 2013 - 1 reports

Repressive Tolerance, &c.

(Scott Johnson) Yesterday the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger built an excellent column on the deep thoughts of Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse was the favorite theorist of the New Left, the man who, as Henninger recalls, developed the theory of ... [Published Power Line - Feb 01 2013]
First reported Jan 25 2013 - Updated Jan 25 2013 - 1 reports

Never past

LONDON COMPANY By Farrukh Dhondy, Hachette, Rs 495 Things were happening in British society of the 1960s and 70s. The old order was being broken. The music of the Beatles and the Stones, and the lyrical poignance of composer-singers like Joan Baez and ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Jan 25 2013]
First reported Jan 22 2013 - Updated Jan 22 2013 - 1 reports

In ‘The Revenant,’ Horror Takes On Race And Military Suicide

This weekend I stumbled across The Revenant on Cinemax. According to Wikipedia , this film won a ton of awards, but I somehow missed it when it was in theaters (or maybe it never came to Nashville?) Either way, I was just looking for something ... [Published Think Progress - Jan 22 2013]
First reported Dec 18 2012 - Updated Dec 18 2012 - 1 reports

The Battle of Algiers: historical truth and filmic representation

The bitter divisions within the FLN are ignored. Instead, Gillo Pontecorvo, in his 1966film, The Battle of Algiers, presentsthe war uniquely in terms of the FLN against the French paratroopers. We begin a new series exploring the many facets of th ... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Dec 18 2012]
First reported Nov 20 2012 - Updated Nov 20 2012 - 1 reports

Even the Dead

And then, despite the fear, I set offI put my cheek against death's cheek- Robert Bola$o, 'Self Portrait at Twenty Years', The Romantic Dogs, 2006On the 26th of September1940 Walter Benjamin - a brilliant writer struggling to the point of being short ... [Published AllAfrica.com - Nov 20 2012]

Quotes

Just over twenty years later, in the midst of another war, and on the eve of his own death, Frantz Fanon warned that "the weary road to rational knowledge" requires us to give up our "too-simple" conceptions of who is and is not the enemy and, also, of what counts as victory...

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Saraki @ 80 that never was [Published The Guardian Nigeria - May 17 2013]
Latin America’s Radical Left in Power: Complexi... [Published Venezuelanalysis.com - May 14 2013]
Slavery and Reparation in France [Published Open Society Institute Soros Foundation Network - May 10 2013]
Racists [Published Thought Leader - May 07 2013]
In the new issue of Jacobin [Published Crooked Timber - May 06 2013]
The Oliver Tambo Award and the legitimisation p... [Published Guyana Chronicle Online - May 05 2013]
Tom Hayden: The American War in Vietnam [Published ZNet - May 04 2013]
This Time It May Work... [Published Individual.com - May 03 2013]
Cassinga Day in a Contemporary Context [Published AllAfrica.com - May 03 2013]
A Challenging Course [Published New. Clear. Vision. - May 03 2013]
Students rally for Governor Amaechi [Published PM News Nigeria - May 02 2013]
THE ALLIANCE CENTENARY WILSON TO OBAMA [Published Guyana Journal - May 02 2013]
camus on algeria [Published 3quarksdaily - May 01 2013]
THIS TIME IT MAY WORK... [Published The Star (Kenya) - Apr 27 2013]
Why Russell Maroon Shoatz Must Be Released From... [Published San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - Apr 25 2013]
Meet Gael Faye, Jamming Poet Extraordinaire Fro... [Published Worldcrunch - Apr 25 2013]
Delia Blanco Destaca La Estética Visual En El C... [Published CaribSeek - Apr 24 2013]
Why Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Must Be Released Fr... [Published Firedoglake - Apr 24 2013]
A Date With Destiny [Published Nigeria Village Square - Apr 24 2013]
Why Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Must Be Released Fr... [Published Dissident Voice - Apr 24 2013]
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Ca... [Published University of Birmingham - Apr 23 2013]
Ideas and ideologies [Published The Express Tribune - Apr 23 2013]
Where Are You from? When Are You G... [Published Bulatlat.com - Apr 23 2013]
The people shall obey [Published Pambazuka News - Apr 18 2013]
Adam Harris asks for protests [Published Guyana Chronicle Online - Apr 18 2013]
Bad Company [Published Frontpagemag.com - Apr 17 2013]
Mad, or bad? [Published Aeon Magazine - Apr 15 2013]
The pessimism [Published The News International - Apr 13 2013]
MP PAGE 1?THIRD LEAD Tanzania: diplomatic prais... [Published Business Times Online Tanzania - Apr 13 2013]
Thatcher is Dead—Long Live Chávez! [Published Axis of Logic - Apr 12 2013]
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In the new issue of Jacobin [Published Crooked Timber - May 06 2013]
The latest issue of Jacobin came out the week before last. It’s already generating a lot of discussion and debate. Just a few highlights. 1.  Jonah Birch’s interview with NYU sociologist Vivek Chibber about Chibber’s new book on subaltern studies ...
A Challenging Course [Published New. Clear. Vision. - May 03 2013]
Why Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Must Be Released From Solitary Confinement by Angola 3 News This month, a 30-day action campaign was launched demanding the release of Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz from solitary confinement, where he has been held for ...
camus on algeria [Published 3quarksdaily - May 01 2013]
“People expect too much of writers,” Albert Camus lamented in the late 1950s. At the time Camus was writing, the Algerian rebellion had grown into a full-scale guerrilla war for independence, and while his initial sympathy for the uprising led the ...
Why Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Must Be Released Fr... [Published Firedoglake - Apr 24 2013]
–An interview with Theresa Shoatz and Matt Meyer This month, a 30-day action campaign was launched demanding the release of Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz from solitary confinement, where he has been held for over 23 consecutive years, and 28 of the last ...
Today’s letters: Religious schools vs. gay-stra... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Feb 28 2013]
Re: Free Advice for Religious Schools , letter to the editor, Feb. 27. Letter-writer Brian Caines tells us that if “separate/independent schools … have a problem with hosting gay-straight alliance clubs, they are free to refuse funds from the state ...
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