The recent months show how the various global issues fall into boxes and receive uneven attention. The cinicism of the summits indicates how the hierarchies of knowledge contribute to the maintanance of the divisions of the world.
Category Archives: Former issues
Of gates and ghettos
The gap between the globalized economy and social justice is widening day by day. Exclusion is a key concept to understand the state of the world. (from Fabian Review).
Anti-globalization movements and the Palestine question
Opponents of neo-liberal globalization are usually solidaristic with the Palestinian people. Settlement in the Middle-East, however, is not just a matter of solidarity. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is burdened with too much misunderstanding and hostility.
Palestine, Izrael, and the United States (interview)
An interview taken from Znet on neo-colonialism and the possibility of a just peace in the post-September 11 world order.
Jewishness and anti-Semitism in Romania
In Romania, the widespread description goes that there is no anti-Semitism, while there are anti-Semits. Commonplaces and popular judgments about Jews and other aliens remind us the traditional anti-Semitic ideology. Nevertheless, contemporary anti-Semitism is shy: it knows that after the Holocaust, open anti-Semitism is not acceptable.