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ource: siawi.org, 24.04.2016
On ’Hijab Day’ in Paris 2016
two articles by Lalia Ducos and Zazi Sadou, Algerian feminists
Introduction by marieme helie lucas
April 24, 2016
On Wednesday, April 20 2016, some students at the prestigious Paris Institute of Political Sciences which prides itself with educating France’s elite, organized a ‘Hijab Day’, a replica of the worldwide event that was initiated in 2013. It is supposed to help non-veiled non-Muslim students realize how (…)

THE ILLUSION OF RIGHTS
John Chuckman
In truth, there is no such thing as a right.
The last three centuries or so of European history developed the concept and fixed it in our minds as something real and many modern states have enumerated lists of rights, but, in the limit, the concept of rights has no force behind it.
Words on paper mean nothing when those with real power in your society decide that the words are only that, words. Judges have no power to direct where the society’s (…)

My interview with PressTV on the poor victimized US having its little ship buzzed by the big bad Russians 7000 km from home (and 50 miles from Russian territory). I take pains to point out that it is the US who are the real Super Predators, and they must be brought to heel—along with the warning that an election has absolutely no hope of changing this shit. Nice touch, huh? Yeah I thought so. Please share. Audio at link. Transcript below. (…)

Gaiacomm International has accidently created a fusion reaction/ignition. It fully understands the outcome worldwide and its ramifications. This is all that will be published about this. It was an accident.
Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining. This occurs when the energy being given off by the fusion reactions heats the fuel mass more rapidly than various loss mechanisms cool it. At this point, the external energy needed to heat the fuel (…)

Daniel Patrick Interview on US election and Hillary Clinton in particular. Audio here, full transcript below: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/08/459788/US-election-Hillary-Clinton-/
"The Charlie Rose interview is going to be troubling for many Sanders supporters. Granted that Rose was being pretty unfair and really aggressive—but Sanders came out and again was doubling down on his longstanding promise that he would support Clinton if she is the nominee, and saying that he doesn’t hold her (…)

L’auteur est Québécois et diplômé en sociologie à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. On peut le suivre sur son blog Google+ (https://plus.google.com/u/0/113269880721272627716/posts).
À en croire monsieur Mathieu Bernier-Trudeau dans le texte "Complexes symboles de nos contradictions" (LP+, 3 avril 2016), le fait que l’Université Harvard décide de retirer ses armoiries racistes renvoyant au passé esclavagiste des États-Unis témoignerait, selon certains (dont il fait, à mon avis, partie), (…)

One of the lines in the late, great Phil Ochs’s classic song Here’s to the State of Mississippi (written during the heyday of the civil rights movement) states that “the speeches of the governor are the ravings of a clown . . .”
Fast forward fifty-two years and it’s obvious things haven’t changed all that much, as demonstrated by Mississippi governor Phil Bryant’s signing of House Bill 1523. Disingenuously disguised as a “religious freedom” law, it actually is, critics contend, nothing (…)

We reach the city of Makhmur through the main road, which connects Erbil to the Nineveh province in Iraqi Kurdistan. Formally, the area is under the control of the government in Baghdad. The road is full of checkpoints of the regional Kurdish authority, where the Peshmerga of the KDP- the ruling party in this area- stop up several times and make us get out of the car for control. Another thirty kilometers away from Erbil, there is no more Peshmerga. On our right, there is a deserted road (…)

I’m chuckling to myself. Well, now I’m chuckling onscreen, which is almost the same as chuckling out loud. COL? I’m not exactly feeling the Bern, and I am not particularly excited about a Sanders presidency. But man do I love watching the Clinton Machine crash and burn, the ClinThenardiers of modern American political theater, former Secretary of Death and her former Master of the House husband, hypocrite and toady and inebriate. Such an apt metaphor. But more than all of this, I just love (…)

In the midst of one of the wildest presidential races in the history of United States, the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has created yet another wrinkle in the campaign’s political fabric. With the Republican leadership delaying consideration of President Obama’s nomination of Merrick B. Garland until next year, a look at some earlier elections and court nominations might be instructive.
Although history will record that congressional Republicans have opposed (…)