The Activist

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Posts Tagged ‘Imperialism’

60 Children Among the Massacred in Afghanistan

By Bhaskar Sunkara • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: International Issues

A United Nations human rights team has found “convincing evidence” that at least 90 civilians — including 60 children — were killed in US air strikes on a village in western Afghanistan on Thursday night. The Afghan government estimates puts the number of killed in the incident at 95 civilians. Mohammad Iqbal Safi, […]



Report Back: YDS Socialist Summer Retreat

By YDS • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features

Picture Gallery from the Retreat
The 2008 Socialist Summer Retreat held between August 8th and 10th in Wurtsboro, New York exemplified the resounding success of the work YDS and its activists have done over the past two years. Forty-five youth and students participated from places as far away as Colorado, Nevada, and Texas, including delegations of […]



Don’t Forget Yugoslavia

By Guest Author • Aug 17th, 2008 • Category: Exogenous Views

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger digs beneath the received wisdom for the break-up of Yugoslavia and points to a largely ignored memoir by the former chief prosecutor in The Hague - and an echo from current events in the Caucasus. Reprinted with permission.
The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia […]



Imperialism Rears Its Ugly Head in Georgia

By Bhaskar Sunkara • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: International Issues

For those in the war torn Caucasus this has been a week of unfathomable turmoil. It has been a week filled with images of displaced peoples, and the instruments of modern warfare doing what they do best, dispensing death. This has been a week that can only serve to remind us of the […]