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Civil resistance and the language of power, Jack DuVall Who has power? One of the first people who understood how power could be produced by civil resistance was the great African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. In the years of his work before the American Civil War, which was an age of... Read more » The trifecta of civil resistance: unity, planning, discipline, Hardy Merriman What makes nonviolent civil resistance movements effective? If we accept the axiom that in politics “power is never given, it is always taken”, the conclusion necessarily is that historic nonviolent movements were successful because, somehow,... Read more » Authentic journalism: weapon of the people, Al Giordano Newspapers are downsizing and going out of business. Major broadcast, satellite and cable news organizations are outsourcing and closing international bureaus. The credibility of commercial journalism is at an all time low. And with these... Read more »# Resisting corruption: recent progress in Indonesia and Kenya, Shaazka Beyerle Imagine you are an everyday citizen, living in a country with a history of over three decades of state violence and authoritarian rule, with widespread poverty still persistent. A nonviolent civic coalition played a significant role in displacing... Read more » Tolstoy's ‘Afterlife’: an Ambivalent Centenary , Rosamund Bartlett Official centenary celebrations The former railway station of Astapovo in Lipetsk region was a hive of activity this autumn as architects, builders, electricians and decorators raced to meet an immovable deadline. For it was here that Lev... Read more » The global 1989, George Lawson A central motif of Milan Kundera's novelThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the ways in which the present works to distort the past. To that end, Kundera tellsthe story of a photograph taken of two leading Czech communists, Vladimír... Read more » Israel vs Iran: the Washington factor, Paul Rogers The extensive publicity around the release of George W Bush's memoir Decision Points has underplayed an important detail with ever more relevance to contemporary international politics: that in 2005-06 his administration considered an attack on... Read more »
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