Have you heard the one about the Hamas militant and the IDF soldiers? Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A Hamas militant fires a rocket into Israel. Israel gets defensive and retaliates,...
The gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart is over ten years old. It began in 2000, with a woman named Betty Dukes, who had then been employed as a greeter for nearly six years. She alleged...
Lisa Rose Mar, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era 1885-1945 (Oxford University Press, 201o). In Brokering Belonging, Lisa Rose Mar brings a fresh perspective to Chinese-Canadian...
I’ve been having trouble sleeping this past week. Every night. I go to bed and there is an underlying feeling of guilt that keeps creeping up on me. It chokes me. Makes me lay there at night for...
“What has Muammar Gaddafi been up to for the past two decades? And who are these ‘African mercenaries’ who are killing civilians?” asked confused Western spectators as they watched the Libyan...
Ave! Duci Novo, similis duci seneca or will Ireland ever break free from civil war politics? Sound the fanfare. Bang the drum. After three years of catastrophic economic mismanagement, the Irish have...
The Verso Book of Dissent, Ed. Andrew Hsiao and Andrea Lim, Verso, 2010. The Idea of Communism, Ed. Coustas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek, Verso, 2010. Stephen Colbert once famously said that...
After more than three weeks of protest, Wisconsin Republicans finally found a way to push through their draconian labor bill stripping public workers of collective bargaining rights. Governor Scott...
The promotionals for ABC's version of Secret Millionaire, yet another UK show being remade in the United States (as well as Australia), promise viewers a series where people with pots of money will...
The Australian state of New South Wales is facing an election on 26 March. The result, as anyone in NSW will tell you, is a foregone conclusion, with even Australian Labor Party state secretary Sam...