Indigenous Environmental Network. Defenders of the Land. Intercontinental Cry - Reporting on the world's Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Action Media | Action, Strategic Communications, Workshops, & Support. Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon was one of a few extraordinary thinkers supporting the decolonization struggles occurring after World War II, and he remains among the most widely read and influential of these voices.
His brief life was notable both for his whole-hearted engagement in the independence struggle the Algerian people waged against France and for his astute, passionate analyses of the human impulse towards freedom in the colonial context. His written works have become central texts in Africana thought, in large part because of their attention to the roles hybridity and creolization can play in forming humanist, anti-colonial cultures. Hybridity, in particular, is seen as a counter-hegemonic opposition to colonial practices, a non-assimilationist way of building connections across cultures that Africana scholar Paget Henry argues is constitutive of Africana political philosophy. Table of Contents 1. Biography Frantz Fanon was born in the French colony of Martinique on July 20, 1925. 2. 3. 4. 5. Vol 1, No 1 (2012) Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace. September 3, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.
It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples. The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Iran is carrying out a murderous and destructive low-level war against Israel with great-power participation. Iranian leaders are therefore announcing their intention to bomb Israel, and prominent Iranian military analysts report that the attack may happen before the U.S. elections.
Iran can use its powerful air force and new submarines sent by Germany, armed with nuclear missiles and stationed off the coast of Israel. All unimaginable, of course, though it is actually happening, with the cast of characters reversed. Like its patron, Israel resorts to violence at will. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List.