How obsession with "nonviolence" harms the Palestinian cause. In recent years, western discourse surrounding the Palestinian cause has employed a few new — and superficial — adjectives to describe Palestinian resistance: Palestinian “nonviolent” resistance, Palestinian “peaceful” resistance, Palestinian “popular” resistance, Palestinian “unarmed” resistance.
And the ever so popular Palestinian “Gandhi-style” resistance. This discourse has been adopted by the Palestinian popular struggle committees, born after the success story of the occupied West Bank village of Budrus that embarked on popular protests and managed to regain 95 percent of its lands that were expropriated by Israel’s apartheid wall in 2003. However, the obsessive, fetish-like concentration on a specific type of resistance has in one way or another contributed to the delegitimization of other forms of resistance, while simultaneously closing off open discussion on what popular resistance actually is.
No need to explain Bailed out by PA Mired in apathy A need for mobilization. Why The Rest of the World Should Tell the U.S. to F*cK Off. Here are some uncomfortable historical facts that are largely ignored, glossed over, or blatantly suppressed in most American school curricula: 1) The United States government (largely through the CIA and its predecessors) is directly responsible for the overthrow of at least half a dozen democratically elected governments around the world over the past hundred plus years.
Among these are many of our neighbors in Latin America such as Guatemala in 1954, Brazil in 1964, and Chile in 1973. Further afield we have Iran in 1953, which is particularly ironic considering the dire straits of our present day relationship. This list doesn’t include the toppling of non-elected governments (almost all of them replaced by brutal dictators) such as Syria in 1949 and Ghana in 1966. It also doesn’t include direct invasion by U.S. troops such as the Philippines in 1898, Panama (first in 1895 and again at least eight more times since), Grenada in 1983, and most recently, Iraq in 2003.
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Obama. Feminism. Grand Old Party - Matthew Epler Portfolio Site. Grand Old Party "Grand Old Party" is a data visualization project.
It is also a set of butt plugs. Each shape is determined by voter approval ratings amongst registered republican voters for each of the GOP presidential candidates. The height is a measurement of time, beginning December 10, 2011 and ending on April 1, 2012 (bottom to top). The width of each object is the quantity by percentage (out of 100%) of approval for that candidate. Download Catalogue. Money ≠ Happiness. QED. But the distinguishing feature of our moment is this: Better has flown a few trees over to make her nest.
And that changes everything. Now, with the stone of your life or your society gripped in your hand, you have to choose. It's More or Better. Which means, according to new research emerging from many quarters, that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually. Growth no longer makes most people wealthier, but instead generates inequality and insecurity. 1. It was the great economist John Maynard Keynes who pointed out that until very recently, "there was no very great change in the standard of life of the average man living in the civilized centers of the earth.
" And then, something new finally did happen. In some ways, the invention of the idea of economic growth was almost as significant as the invention of fossil-fuel power. Yet the bad news was already apparent, if you cared to look. 2.