We pay tribute to the late historian, writer and activist Howard Zinn who died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 87. Howard Zinn’s classic work A People’s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America. …
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/28
To see an animation of Howard Zinn’s People’s History [...]
The stories we are told by our leaders and the stories we tell each other help to build our worldview. We have to take back control of these narratives to empower each other and construct a more peaceful world.
But, yet, the mass movement that we were a part of ten years ago really isn’t present in the streets. And I think a lot of that has to do with, perhaps, the “Obama effect” in the United States where everyone is still in this waiting pattern, hoping that he’s going to save the day.
In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia’s human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the “unique features” of a political silence in Australia: how it affects the national life of his homeland and the way Australians see the world and are manipulated by great power [...]
By Walden Bello*(This paper was delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building, on Oct. 16, 2009.)
This paper seeks to shed light on how an ideology achieves hegemony, how this hegemony is maintained, and what happens when the claims of an ideology [...]
Lecture delivered by Prof Dr. Chandra Muzaffar at the Centre for the Study of World Religions(CSWR), Harvard University on 1st October 2009. The Lecture is the first in the series entitled ” Ecologies of Human Flourishing.”
Please follow think link to listen to the audio of Dr. Chandra Muzaffar’s talk delivered at harvard:
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/resources/lectures/muzaffar3.html
People world over are disenchanted with free market capitalism, says a new BBC global survey. Those surveyed in 27 countries – both developed and developing – have said that there is a need for regulating businesses and distributing wealth evenly.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread [...]