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Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. Jews cannot be called a race given the diversity of origin and color of its adherents. Rather, it is a civilization by definition, as they are people with a common history, language, literature, philosophy, religion and land and call for homeland in the manner of […]

The demonisation of Russia risks paving the way for war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday that Russia is being demonized, and that it was impossible for his country to have interfered with the 2016 election, despite US claims. Peskov, who has been a spokesman and top aide to Vladimir Putin for almost two decades, […]

You know Australia’s immigration intake is way too high, and that the community mood has turned, when even Bernard Salt – the self proclaimed “unabashed supporter of a bigger Australia” – believes Melbourne is growing too fast and argues that immigration needs to be moderated. From Nine News (here and here): Melbourne’s population could be growing too fast – and […]

“I THINK I can see the whole destiny of America contained in the first Puritan who landed on those shores,” the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote after visiting the United States in the 1830s. Was he right? Do present-day Americans still exhibit, in their attitudes and behavior, traces of those austere English Protestants […]

History and Overview of a Vibrant Subfield. Marxist sociology is a way of practicing sociology that draws methodological and analytic insights from the work of Karl Marx. Research conducted and theory produced from the Marxist perspective focuses on the key issues that concerned Marx: the politics of economic class, relations between labor and capital, relations between culture, […]

An Overview of People and Theory.   The Frankfurt School refers to a collection of scholars known for developing critical theory and popularizing the dialectical method of learning by interrogating society’s contradictions, and is most closely associated with the work of Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse. It was not a school, in […]

The disgraced former conventional wisdom-meister Mark Halperin coined a phrase, which he used relentlessly, to describe the bad-faith personal attacks that swarmed around politics: the freak show. It turned out Halperin was running a freak show of his own, which explains his “former” status. But the phrase lost much of its power before Halperin disappeared. The premise of freak show, […]

As we move beyond five hundred year anniversary of the Protestant reformulation on October 31, 2017, it is good for us to look back and examine how that all worked out for them. For, how are we to judge the fruit of tree over the last 500 years unless we first examine the roots of […]

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday slammed Western values which he said, unlike those in the Islamic republic, undermine feminism. His comments come amid political tensions in Iran where conservatives want to strengthen measures preventing women and men from mixing while President Hassan Rouhani advocates more social freedoms. “Moral crises are increasing in the […]

Recent surveys conducted in Europe indicate a rise in Islamophobia since 2015, namely since the beginning of the refugee crisis. Islamophobic incidents have been taking place across the whole continent, even in places where Muslim communities are almost absent, for example, in some Central European states. Islamophobia is exacerbated by some European governments and right-wing politicians […]

We Need to Assess Islam Based on Reality, Not Rants. Protesters have recently been rallying against a proposed Islamic educational center containing a mosque near Ground Zero, claiming that the proximity of anything Muslim to Ground Zero would contaminate a hallowed place. Protesters claim they aren’t anti-Muslim; they merely want the center and mosque to […]

Amid economic turmoil, journalists are frequent accomplices to rising xenophobia directed at Europe’s immigrants. As European leaders increasingly question the concept of Europe without borders and follow each other in announcing the end of multiculturalism, the media response has been mostly to present migrants as destabilising Europe’s labour markets and welfare states. The role of […]

Despite the growing influence of racist movements and political parties in Europe, xenophobia isn’t generally on the increase in European cities. excerpts. Despite the growing influence of racist movements and political parties in Europe, xenophobia isn’t generally on the increase in European cities. Between 2009 and 2015 the attitudes that citizens hold towards foreigners have […]

Investigating a stereotype of the refugee crisis. Angela Merkel has arrived fashionably late to the chicest global party of the fall: the bash-Eastern-Europe bash.In a closed-door meeting last week, the German chancellor became the latest figure to criticize Eastern European governments for their isolationist response to Europe’s refugee crisis. Eastern European hostility to refugees from the wars […]

The current refugee crisis has produced a wave of xenophobia across Europe. Fascism and ultra-nationalism have also been on the rise. Because of the really large numbers of refugees all going to Europe, it seems to have put a strain on the countries’ resources and has led to some sort of political backlash which we […]

After Sunday’s elections in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now the country’s third-largest party.   The Alternative for Germany is a far-right German political party known for its xenophobia, anti-Islam beliefs, and pride in German identity. After Sunday’s German elections, it is also now the country’s third-largest party — and the first far-right […]

THE SPECTER OF a growing far-right nationalism anywhere, but particularly in Central Europe, immediately — and for good and obvious reasons — raises fears of an anti-Semitism revival. But at least thus far, the leaders of most of these nationalistic parties — increasingly inspired and fueled by one another’s success — have showcased dangerous animosity toward Muslims, accompanied […]

Marlène Schiappa discusses Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuel Macron, and the path forward for French women. Last month, just before “Saturday Night Live” parodied Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot as wine-swilling reactionaries, Marlène Schiappa, a Frenchwoman with significantly greater authority on gender issues, made a quick visit to New York. Schiappa is the gender-equality minister in President […]

Shortly after the Presidential election, a small piece of good news came over the wire: the Thomas Mann villa in Los Angeles has been saved. The house, which was built to Mann’s specifications, in the nineteen-forties, went on the market earlier this year, and it seemed likely to be demolished, because the structure was deemed less valuable than […]

TeleSUR speaks to Cuba expert Arnold August about Raúl Castro’s impending retirement and U.S.-Cuba relations. Telesur: Marking 59 years since the triumph of the revolution, do you think there is something particular this year about the celebration given the looming elections and Raul Castro’s impending retirement? Arnold August: Basing oneself on Cuban press publications in the […]

There’s a reason why men take up extra room when they sit down. For those still reeling from the arrival of “mansplaining” into our lexicon (regularly exhibited by Piers Morgan, according to the Twittersphere), fear not, this isn’t just another catchy portmanteau intended to scathe the male ego. A recent study showed that 82 per cent of […]

My entire life I have been taught to move out of the way for men. Whether it be in the school hallway during middle school through high school, on the sidewalk, in stores, or on the train, I have always known that men have the right of way and women are expected to move to […]

A revolution is not a one-time event. That quote from American author, activist and feminist Audre Lorde hung proudly from a banner at the historic York Hall in Bethnal Green on 5 May, 2018. This short quote from Lorde’s 1982 essay Learning from the 60s might not have much to do with professional wrestling but, in many […]

Among Western political leaders there is not an ounce of integrity or morality. The Western print and TV media is dishonest and corrupt beyond repair.  Yet the Russian government persists in its fantasy of “working with Russia’s Western partners.”  The only way Russia can work with crooks is to become a crook.  Is that what […]

As I wrote earlier today, “the entire Western world is insane.”  More evidence has been jumping out at me all day.  For example: President Trump has nominated a person, Gina Haspel, to be CIA Director who is deeply implicated in CIA torture and destruction of the evidence.  The Republicans want to confirm her as “an excellent […]

A four-decade onslaught of neoliberal Reaganomics has decimated the American poor and working class. Median wages have remained stagnant since the late 1970s, despite a consistent increase in productivity. The top 1 percent owns 40 percent of the country’s wealth, and top CEOs make more than 300 times that of the average worker (which is a 1,000 […]

Blonde-haired women are getting to be a rare breed. We list the top 8 countries where the blonde haired beautiful women live. 8. Belarus This small country in Eastern Europe is known as being the blondest nation in the Slavic family. Belarusian women have blue eyes, round faces, plump lips, and snub noses. The typical […]

The workplace communication platform is trialling a tool that’ll pick up on the sexist phenomenon and other interpersonal dynamics   Slack is becoming ubiquitous in the workplace, replacing email as a faster, more efficient means of colleague communication. I use it in the office, on the tube – we even used it for organising societies […]