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I confess, I am a culturally alienated, old, disconnected 1960s and ‘70s radical trying to live and struggle for revolutionary change in a world that might have passed me by, because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way pro

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Admittedly, in all countries of the world, Ethiopia included, the reasons behind rising property prices could be many.

[Speech given in Rome at the Italian Parliament on January 29, 2016">

Friends and Comrades, it is a great honor to be standing here – at the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament.

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In late January, as I listened to activists and allied academics at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Mumbai’s Tata Institute for Social Sciences (TISS), the magnitude of the responsibility faced by the BRICS’ leadership suddenly became clearer to me.

If the Western press alone could overthrow a government, Burundi's would be long gone.

General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was quoted recently as saying that the United States is preparing, in conjunction with its imperialist allies, a renewed military campaign in Libya.

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TENT NUMBER SIX

A year ago on January 19, 2015, Congolese youth descended into the streets in response to an appeal from opposition figures to defend the country's constitution and nascent democracy.