The Human Rights Project has had many visitors and contributors. What follows is an archive of work by and about our professors,
visitors, and associates. These resources are organized into the following categories
-testimony
-scholarly writing
-lectures and interviews
-biographies
-event transcripts
-fiction
-articles
-reviews
testimony South Africa: The Truth Commission: Unto the Third or Fourth Generation
Essay by Antjie Krog in Africa News on the seeming futility of the TRC's mission in South Africa. (June 13, 1997)
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I can talk about nothing else. But I don't talk about it at all
By Antjie Krog. After spending months reporting on the Truth Commission, a reflection of the salient imagery. (Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, Dec 30, 1996)
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Truth Trickle Becomes a Flood
Essay by Antjie Krog (Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, Nov 1, 1996).
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Writing is a Struggle for Life
A prose piece by Putu Oka Sukanta, about the hellish life as a writer in Indonesia.
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South Africa: On the Tortured Road to Reconciliation
Essay by Antjie Krog in Africa News (July 22, 1998).
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Dispatches Assessing the Impact of the WTC/Pentagon Attacks Elsewhere in the World
Dispatches by Praful Bidwai, Ahmed Rashid, Graham Usher, Ana Uzelac, et al (The Nation, 9/27/01). India: Bidwai, Pakistan: Rashid, Middle East: Usher, Russia: Uzelac, South Africa: Gevisser, England: Margaronis.
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Letters to the Irish Times on the visit of Women on Waves
A collection of letters to the editor of the Irish Times (May 2001-July 2001) on the visit of Women on Waves and their floating abortion clinic to Ireland's coast. See their website at http://www.womenonwaves.org
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scholarly writing A New Heirarchy of Values and Interests
By David Rieff (World Policy Journal, Fall 1999) Discusses US foreign policy from the perspective of the twilight of the Clinton Administration.
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Raphael Lemkin
Visit http://preventgenocide.org/lemkin/ for key writings of Raphael Lemkin on genocide.
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War in the Age of the Internet
Goto (http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9907/msg00107.html) for Geert Lovink's original text (July 28, 1999).
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The Fragments of Network Criticism
Geert Lovink's theories and commentary technological progress and its effects on society. Original at (http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9908/msg00094.html)
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The ABC of tactical media
Goto (http://www.ljudmila.org/nettime/zkp4/74.htm) for Garcia and Lovink's original text (May 11, 1997).
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Beyond Storage and Retrieval: Some Remarks on 'Media Memory'
See (http://www.aec.at/meme/symp/panel/msg00059.html) for Geert Lovink's original text (June 14, 1996).
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What Happened to the Digital City of Amsterdam?
Article on by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens (Aug 18, 2000).
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The Importance of Meetspace: Manual for Temporary Media Labs
See (http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0001/msg00041.html) for Geert Lovink's original text (Jan 8, 2000).
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The Theory of Mixing: An Inventory of Amsterdam Free Radio Techniques
Goto (http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet/adilkno/Radiotext/MIXING.TXT) for Geert Lovink's original essay.
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Hybrid Media Lounge
Click 'PDF' link for Geert Lovink's "hybrid media lounge" project.
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Rwanda: la credibilite francaise en question
An excerpt of Rony Brauman's Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, nº 65 du 18/03/98. See (http://membres.lycos.fr/jecmaus/Dna65.html) for the original text (in French).
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Chapter Nine [on Genocide]
A Chapter from Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress, by Raphaël Lemkin.
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Commander's Guidance: A Challenge of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
An article by Andrew Natsios in Parameters, Summer 1996, pp. 50-66. Discussing the numerous military involvements in humanitarian crises.
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Caught in Another's Dream in Bosnia
Written by Slavoj Zizek in "Why Bosnia" [Ed. Rabia Ali and Lawrence Lifschultz, (Stony Creek, Conn: Pamphleteers Press, Inc., 1993), pp. 233-240].
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When the Party Commits Suicide
Essay on Communism by Slavoj Zizek (1999).
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Light Weapons
Article by Thomas Keenan on Harun Farocki's film "Images of the World."
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Like a Museum
By Thomas Keenan on the siege of Sarajevo.
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Have You Seen Your World Today?
Thomas Keenan on Richard Dienst's "Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television" (1994) and Gregory Ulmer's "Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video" (1989).
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Reality would have to begin
Harun Farocki on photography and the Holocaust, translated by Marek Wieczorek, with Thomas Keenan and Thomas Y. Levin.
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Live from...
Essay by Thomas Keenan on war coverage by the media.
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No End in Sight
Thomas Keenan's essay on "The End(s) of the Museum," Fundacio Antoni Tapies (1995).
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Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance
Thomas Keenan writes about surveillance and democracy in the digital age.
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Publicity and Indifference (Sarajevo on television)
Essay about global responsibility and the image-driven media by Thomas Keenan.
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Still waiting
Essay by Thomas Keenan on ruins.
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The Qur'an & the Other
from Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression, © 1997 Farid Esack
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To Dwell in the Ruins of the University
A selection of the essay by Christopher Fynsk (original text at http://english.binghamton.edu/crossings/fynsk.htm)
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Secret Intelligence, zur Epistemologie der Nachrichtsdienste
Written by Eva Horn (in German).
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Die Zeichen des Menschen: Graphologie
by Eva Horn (in German).
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lectures & interviews Portrait of the Virtual Intellectual: On the Design of the Public Cybersphere
Lecture by Geert Lovink at 100 days program of Documenta X Kassel (July 13, 1997).
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From Speculative Media Theory to Net Criticism
Geert Lovink's lecture at ICC, Tokyo. (19.12.96) See (http://www.frajla.co.yu/calliope/webography.htm) for original.
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Media wars and the humanitarian (non-)interventions
Professor Tom Keenan interviews Geert Lovink.
[See: http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet/#lovink and http://www.mediamatic.nl/whoiswho/lovink/index.html for more articles by Lovink, and http://www.nettime.org/ for more of his work.]
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An Interview with Antjie Krog
An interview with Antjie Krog by Exclusive Books. Original text: (http://www.exclusivebooks.com/interviews/ftf/akrog.php?CID=)
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Streaming Audio: Dee Dee Halleck
Click the 'PDF' link for a streaming audio interview of Dee Dee Halleck, media activist/satirist.
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What Does it Matter Who is Speaking?
What Does It Matter Who Is Speaking? Census, Censor, Address. A lecture given by Thomas L. Dumm at Bard (Nov 21, 2000).
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Gathering Storm: Collaborative Activism After Seattle
Gathering Storm: Collaborative Activism After Seattle. A talk given by Dee Dee Halleck at Bard (Sept 5, 2000).
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Talking with Harun Farocki
An interview (in German) with Harun Farocki by Tilman Baumgärtel. See (http://www.nadir.org/nadir/periodika/jungle_world/41/28a.htm) for the original text.
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Children, Trafficking, Smuggling
A talk given by Jacqueline Bhabha at Bard (Mar 12, 2001). Child Migrants and The Trafficking and Smuggling Protocols of the Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (work in progress, not intended for quotation or citation).
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Citizenship Without a Preexisting Community
A talk delivered at Bard (Mar 19, 2001) by Étienne Balibar.
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Badgering the Witness
Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer speaks with Kerry Chance of Bard's Free Press after her lecture (March 25, 2002)
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Human Rights and its Discontents
Transcript of Slavoj Zizek's lecture at Bard (11/16/99).
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Conversation with Chinua Achebe on his recent return to Nigeria
A conversation with Chinua Achebe on his return to Nigeria conducted by professor Emmanuel Dongala (11/29/99, Bard College).
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Going Home was a Sad Awakening
By Marjorie Coeyman (1/6/00, Christian Science Monitor). Chinua Achebe's reflections on the future of Nigeria.
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Not Enough
Thomas Keenan's lecture at the Holocaust Museum's conference on "Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity" (12/10/98).
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The greatest veneration
Thomas Keenan's interview of Friedrich St. Florian appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine (7.1.01).
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Talking with Edward Said
Kerry Chance interviews Edward Said on humanism. Said, the Columbia Scholar, visited Bard to receive an award and give a lecture (Bard Free Press, Feb 13, 2001).
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Talking with Gayatri Spivak
Kerry Chance and Yates McKee of the Bard Free Press interview Gayatri Spivak (April 24, 2001).
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Talking with Homi Bhabha
Kerry Chance interviewed Homi Bhabha for the Bard Free Press (March 19, 2001). Topics include the Post-colonial world, globalization, and neo-nationalism.
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What is Really Happening in Palestine?
Ali Tonak of the Bard Free Press interviews Kristen Schurr, activist and journalist located in Palestine.
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Power Within a Global Paradigm
Jean-Marc Gorelick and Walter Johnston interview Michael Hardt after his talk at Bard (Dec 6, 2001).
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An Attack Carried Out With the Media in Mind
Nadja Millner-Larsen interviews Professor Tom Keenan for Bard's Free Press (Oct 4, 2001).
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Conflict, Intervention, Media: The West and the Balkans
Discussion with Boris Buden and Aferdita Kelmendi (Bard College, 4/19/00)
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Tudjman is Yet to be Buried
Interview with Boris Buden by Damir Pilic (Feral Tribune, 1/31/00)
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Fleeing Kosovo
Newshour interview of Aferdita Kelmendi with Phil Ponce (4/12/99).
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Knowledge and Justice After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Discussion with Kendall Thomas and Alex Boraine (Bard College, 4/24/00).
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Global Health and Humanitarianism
A talk given by Joelle Tanguy (Stanford University, 3/28/00) on Doctors Without Borders, public health in war zones, and humanitarianism.
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Sovereignty, Multitudes, Absolute Democracy
Thomas Dumm interviews Michael Hardt on "Empire" (Harvard University Press 2000) (Johns Hopkins University Press 2000).
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An Art of the Possible
Excerpts from a dialogue between Christopher Fynsk and Salvatore Puglia (Paris 1997) (see also (http://www.janvaneyck.nl/users/salvatorep/excerpts.html).
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Literature, Politics, Aesthetics: Approaches to Democratic Disagreement
An interview of Jacques Ranciere by Solange Guénoun and James H. Kavanagh (SubStance # 92, 2000).
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Other The Arusha Tapes: Justice After Genocide
A brief introduction to the film, directed by Mandy Jacobson, and its crew.
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The Spectre is Still Roaming Around!
Written by Slavoj Zizek, an introduction to the 150th anniversary edition of The Communist Manifesto.
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Women on Waves
Women on Waves is a non-profit organization supporting a woman's right to choose. Click on 'PDF' for a link to their site.
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biographies Charles Sheiner
A short bio of Charles Sheiner.
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Putu Oka Sukanta
A short bio of Putu Oka Sukanta.
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Rony Brauman
A short bio of Rony Brauman, former coordinating doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
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Harun Farocki
A short bio and selected list of films by the filmmaker Harun Farocki.
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Mahmood Mamdani
A short biography of Mahmood Mamdani (including a few articles written by him).
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Jacqueline Bhabha
A short bio of Jacqueline Bhabha, Director, University of Chicago Human Rights Program.
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Homi Bhabha
A short bio of Homi Bhabha, Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
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Homi Bhabha
An article introducing Homi Bhabha by Stanford University's Glen Worthey. See (http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bhabha/) for original text and links to other articles.
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Étienne Balibar
A selected bibliography of Étienne Balibar's work.
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Slavoj Zizek
A short biography of Slavoj Zizek (11/16/99).
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Aferdita Kelmendi
A short bio of Aferdita Kelmendi, director of RTV21 Pristina (Kosovo), the first Albanian-language radio station to broadcast freely from Kosovo.
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Amina Mama
A short bio (as of 5/4/00) of Amina Mama, who spoke at Bard. Her talk was titled “Changing Subjects, Shifting Sand: Gender, Theory and Transformation.”
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Samantha Power
A short biography of Samantha Power (updated 10/16/01),
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David Campbell
A short biography of David Campbell (updated 10/23/01).
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event transcripts Accounting for Atrocities, opening talk
Opening talk at the Accounting for Atrocities conference at Bard College.
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Strategies for Media Activism
Presentation by Geert Lovink at the forum event of 'Code Red,' The Performance Space, Sydney (Nov 23, 1997).
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Directions for Cyberculture in the New Economy
Geert Lovink's keynote speech at the University of Queensland in Brisbane (May12, 2000).
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When does a settler become a native?
Inaugral Lecture of Mahmood Mamdani, Centre for African Studies University of Cape Town, as A.C. Jordan Professor of African Studies. (May 1998)
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Médecins Sans Frontières – Nobel Lecture
Transcript of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize speech delivered by Dr James Orbinski in Oslo, Norway on Dec 10, 1999.
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HHRS: Aryeh Neier
Discussion with Aryeh Neier at the Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar, February 10, 2000.
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HHRS: David Rieff
David Rieff's remarks on humanitarianism and human rights from his perspective as journalist in Bosnia. Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar November 11, 1999.
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HHRS: Background
The Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar at Bard College took place beginning November 11, 1999.
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HHRS: Boraine and Bretenbach
Boraine and Bretenbach on South Africa, at the Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar, November 30, 1999.
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HHRS: Holly Burkhalter
Discussion with Holly Burkhalter at the Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar, December 16, 1999.
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HHRS: Noam Chomsky
Discussion with Noam Chomsky at the Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar, February 2, 2000.
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HHRS: Alex de Waal
Discussion with Alex de Waal at the Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar, March 11, 2000.
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HHRS: Bill Finnegan
Bill Finnegan on Sudan and humanitarian intervention at the Humanitarianism and Human Rights Seminar, February 24, 2000.
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HHRS: Ian Guest
Ian Guest on Kosovo, fellow with the Overseas Development Council, February 2000.
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A Nation Challenged
Bush's address on terrorism before a joint meeting of Congress, Sept 21, 2001.
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No exceptions: children's rights are human rights
Schedule, list of speakers, and links related to the conference hosted by the Bard College Chapter of Amnesty International (3/4/00).
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Remarks by the President and Governor Tom Ridge
Remarks by President GW Bush and Governor Tom Ridge at Ridge's Swearing-In Ceremony for Director of the Office of Homeland Security in the East Room. (10/8/01)
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Cuba Proclaims its Opposition to Terrorism, War
Speech by President Fidel Castro Ruz, president of the Republic of Cuba, Havana (9/22/01).
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RAWA Statement: Taliban Should be Overthrown by the Uprising of Afghan Nations
A statement by Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (10/11/01).
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Women on Waves Call for Support
Written by Rebecca Gomperts, this is a call for support of Women on Waves after the pilot project in Ireland (nettime.org, 8/30/01).
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On missile defense
President Bush's speech on missile defense (Washington Post 5/1/01).
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London: Post-Colonial City
The opening address at "London: Post-Colonial City" by Paul Gilroy (3/12/99).
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fiction Parable of the Bicycle
Prose by Antjie Krog (Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg, February 1997)
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Poetry by Putu Oka Sukanta
Sample poems (3) by Putu Oka Sukanta, Translated by Keith Foucher. "My name is E.T," In my cell," and "They gave me."
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Leftover soul
An excerpt from Putu's novel Merajut Harkat translated by Lynne Samson.
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Gifts
The first chapter of "Gifts" by Nuruddin Farah (Arcade Publishing, 1999)
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Secrets
The first chapter of Nuruddin Farah's "Secrets" (Arcade Publishing, 1998).
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articles The Invisible War
Article by William Finnegan (The New Yorker 1/25/95).
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Letter from Tuzla
Article by William Finnegan (The New Yorker, 2/12/95).
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Letter from Mogadishu
Editorial by William Finnegan (The New Yorker 3/20/95).
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Crime and Context: Texas Atrocity Raises Questions for all Americans
Editorial in the LA Times (6/11/98) on the James Byrd case, Jasper, Texas, June 1998.
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Three charged in Texas after black man's grisly death
Article by Lianne Hard (LA Times, 6/10/98). On the James Byrd case, Jasper, Texas, June 1998.
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The Bandwidth Dilemma
Article by Geert Lovink. Goto (http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/on/7121/1.html) for original posting.
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The Art of Being Independent: On NGOs and the Soros Debate
See (http://www.ljudmila.org/nettime/zkp4/11.htm) for Geert Lovink's original text (May 13, 1997).
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Language? No problem.
Article by Geert Lovink about the changing role of the English Language in the Internet Age. Goto (http://www.ljudmila.org/nettime/zkp4/61.htm) for original text.
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Understanding the Crisis in Kivu
Report of the CODESRIA Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo September, 1997.
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Till the law us do part
"Till the law us do part / Background report on immigration rules." An article by Jacqueline Bhabha and Francesca Klug in The Guardian (London) (July 22, 1985), Guardian Women.
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Weak players in a strong market
Jacqueline Bhabha's article in the University of Chicago Magazine (Dec 2000).
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Narrating the nation
An excerpt from the introduction to Nation and Narration, by Homi Bhabha (Routledge 1990). More articles by Bhabha can be found at (http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bhabha/excerpts.html).
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Liberalism's Sacred Cow
A response to Susan Okin's "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?" by Homi K. Bhabha in the Boston Review (Oct/Nov 1997).
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Etat D'urgence Démocratique
An article (in French) by Etienne Balibar in Le Monde (Feb 19, 1997). See (http://bok.net/pajol/debat/presse/lemonde/balibar.html) for the original text.
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Les principes de Lavibonne
An article in French by Rony Brauman.
(http://www.globenet.org/chroniqueur/01/rubriques/grand_angle2.html)
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A Holocaust Memoir in Doubt
Maureen Carvajal on Binjamin Wilkomirski and his "Fragments" (New York Times, 11/3/98). A memoir whose credibility has been disputed.
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Town Expresses Sadness, Horror Over Slaying
Article by Carol Marie Cropper (New York Times, 6/11/98). On the James Byrd case, Jasper, Texas, June 1998.
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Racial Profiling Rises: Poll
Article in The Gazette (Montreal) on racial profiling post-September 11 (Oct 1, 2001).
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Tutu's Report Tells The Truth, But Not the Whole Truth
Article by Jeremey Cronin (Independent Newspapers 1998).
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Talking With Peter Gabriel on WITNESS
The singer/songwriter is using next-generation Net technology to position his organization, WITNESS, on the vanguard of the human-rights defense movement. By Bevin Cummings.
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Against the Double Blackmail
By Slavoj Zizek (4/7/99 in nettime at nettime.org).The NATO Bombings and Milosevic's proto-facsist regime.
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Writer's Vision Puts Nigeria Back Together
Article in the Poughkeepsie Journal on Chinua Achebe (12/8/99).
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Chinua Achebe: A Storyteller Far From Home
Article by Somini Sengupta on Chinua Achebe (1/10/00, New York Times).
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The Murder of James Byrd
By Ed Vulliamy (6/14/98, The Observer). Well-researched article about the crime and community reactions. Full title: "Beaten With a Large Spanner. And This Was the Last Thing He Saw; The Murder of James Byrd"
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Dear Rudy...
Letter to Rudolf Giuliani about Rosalyn Deutsche's book "Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics" (1996).
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Looking like flames and falling like stars. Kosovo, 'the first internet war'
Thomas Keenan on the internet and coverage of the war in Kosovo.
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Fake Nike T-Shirts Celebrate Accused Terrorist
An article in the Associated Press by Kathy Gannon, Dec 11, 2000. T-shirts in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan that feature the Nike™ logo alongside a drawing of an AK-47 rifle and praise for Osama bin Laden.
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US Pulls the Plug on Muslim Websites
An article in The Guardian (UK) by Brian Whitaker, Sept 10, 2001.
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Diallo, Terrorism and Safety vs. Liberty
An article by Clyde Haberman in The New York Times, Sept 13, 2001. The ethics of freedom versus safety in New York City.
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Amnesty Int. Urges Bush to Maintain Human Rights Standards
Amnesty International Press Releases, Sept 24, 2001. A warning of looming humanitarian crises in Afghanistan.
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Adams Condemns Terror Attacks on U.S.
An article by John Murray Brown in the Financial Times (London), Oct 1, 2001. IRA tries to distance itself from certain terrorist organizations in the wake of 9/11.
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Fundamentalist Islam is Guilty
An article by Yosef Goell in the Jerusalem Post, Sept 17, 2001. Religious fanaticism's bloody role in human affairs.
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On Behalf of America's Muslims, I Apologise
Editorial by Terek Masoud in the Daily Telegraph (London), Sept 17, 2001.
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Japanese Respond Reluctantly to US Call to Arms
Article by Michiyo Nakamoto in the Financial Times (London), Oct 2, 2001.
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Suffering must not give way to vengeance
An article by Breda O'Brien in the Irish Times, Sept 15, 2001.
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After the Attacks: The Poll
An article by Richard L. Berke and Janet Elder in The New York Times, Sept 17, 2001. Full title: "Public voices overwhelming support for the use of force against terrorism"
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Patriotism calls out the censor
An article by Richard Reeves in The New York Times, Oct 1, 2001.
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In Midwest Barbershops, Talk of Military Action
An article by Mark Sappenfield in the Christian Science Monitor, Oct 2, 2001.
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Coming Together in Union Square
An article by Adina Schecter and Sarah Yahm in the Nation, Sept 30, 2001.
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Backgrounder on the News: Islamic Fundamentalists
Article in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Sept 21, 2001.
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Veiled threat
An article by Barbara Ehrenreich in the Los Angeles Times, Nov 4, 2001. Full title: "Veiled threat: To fully grasp the dangers of the post-Sept. 11 world, we have to examine the Taliban's hatred of women"
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Struggling against fanaticism
An article by Amos Oz in The New York Times, Sept 14, 2001.
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Jews and Muslims must reject their lunatic fringes
An article by Melanie Phillips in the Sunday Times (London), Sept 23, 2001.
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Old Dogma, New Tricks: War and Islam - Crescent of Conflict
An article by David Pryce-Jones in The Weekend Australian, Sept 22, 2001.
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Commentary: Sunset Can Put a Halt to Twilight of Liberty
An Editorial by Bruce Ackerman in The Los Angeles Times, Sept 20, 2001. Legislation that threatens civil liberties should at least carry an expiration date.
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On security and terror
An article by Giorgio Agamben in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sept 20, 2001.
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The Airports: Democratic Leaders Say They Back a Government Takeover of Security
An article by Matthew L. Wald in the New York Times, Sept 24, 2001.
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Walls of 'Fortress America' rising
An article by Gail Russell Chaddock in The Christian Science Monitor, Sept 24, 2001. Highlight "Congress is moving on tough bills that would expand surveillance and tighten security at airports and borders."
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Search for security; Terrorist attacks have inspired nationwide interest in surveillance
An article by Benny Evangelista in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 24, 2001.
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Paying for Security With Liberty
An article by Michael Ignatieff in the Financial Times (London), Sept 12, 2001.
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At the Border, What Will Make Us Safe?
An article by Michael Ignatieff in The Washington Post, Sept 23, 2001.
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Here Comes Big Brother
Article by Nicola Jones and Joanna Marchant (New Scientist, 9/22/01). High-tech identification and security systems- will they be a viable solution?
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For Now, Security Trumps Liberties
Article by Brad Knickerbocker (Christian Science Monitor, 9/19/01). "Amid heightened security, some worry about erosion of freedom."
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Rights Groups Find Atmosphere Difficult as Security is Focus, Not Civil Liberties
Article by Susan Milligan (Boston Globe 11/5/01). Human Rights Watch recently appealed to foundations and individuals for financial aid and were met with mixed responses.
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NATO Approves US Request for Aid
News Article (Associated Press, 10/4/01).
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Debating the Shape of a Terror Court
Article by Elizabeth Neuffer (Boston Globe, 10/28/01). Exploring the debate over what courts should prosecute detained Al-Qaeda operatives.
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Facing Tighter Security
Article by Scott Parks (The Ottawa Citizen, 9/24/01)."The terror attacks in New York and Washington will make more palatable an array of high-tech security products... once considered too expensive or too intrusive for use."
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America Attacked: Technology Implications
An article by Karen Kaplan and Charles Piller (Los Angeles Times, 9/12/01).
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Tools for Counterterrorism
Editorial by John Podesta (Washington Post, 9/19/01).
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Bigger Brother in the Wireless World
Article by Simon Romero (New York Times, 9/24/01). Privacy advocates express concern about wireless surviellance in post 9-11 era.
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Torture Seeps Into Discussion of News Media
Article by Jim Rutenberg (New York Times, 11/5/01).
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Safety Concerns Put Liberty at Risk
Article by Marc Sandalow and Carla Marinucci (San Francisco Chronicle, 9/22/01).
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Groups Fault Plan to Listen, Search and Seize
Article by Neil A. Lewis and Philip Shenon (New York Times, 9/21/01). The Bush Administration's rewrites of surveillance and immigration laws draws criticism.
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Uncle Sam and the Watching Eye
Article in the Economist Newspaper about surveillance technologies and civil liberties. (9/22/01)
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US to Publish Terror Evidence on Bin Laden
Article by Jane Perlez and Tim Weiner. (New York Times, 9/24/01)
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Blair Rallies Britain as War Nerves Fray
Article by Kamal Ahmed in London, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Paul Beaver in Oman (Observer, 10/28/01)
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Fighting Terrorism on the Global Front
Editorial by Kofi A. Annan (New York Times, 9/21/01). A direct response to the WTC attacks.
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The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Editorial by Arundhati Roy (Guardian, 9/29/01).
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Economic Squeeze: Bush Freezes Bin Laden's Assets
(Reuters, 9/24/01) The financial side of the war on terrorism.
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The Roots of Islamic Anger
Editorial by Peter Beaumont (Observer, 10/4/01).
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Trying to Understand: A Systemic Analysis of International Terrorism
Article by Fritjof Capra [Netttime (nettime.org), 9.28.01]
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Bombing With Blindfolds On
Article by James Carroll (Boston Globe, 11/6/01). The moral blindness of carpet bombing.
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The Rise of Global Anger; Why They Hate the US So Fiercely
Article by Jonathan Curiel (San Fracisco Chronicle, 9/16/01).
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Human Sacrifice is a Thoroughly Modern Phenomenon
Editorial by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9/17/01).
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Their Terrorists and Ours
Essay by Edward S. Herman (Z Magazine, 9/98).
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Get the Message Out
Editorial by Richard Holbrooke (Washington Post, 10/28/01). Failures in public diplomacy may worsen the aftermath of 9-11.
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On the Brink of War: It's War, but it Doesn't Have to be Dirty
Editorial by Michael Ignatieff (The Guardian, 10/1/01).
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Reliving the Conflicts of a Colonial Past
Article by Rana Kabbani (The Guardian, 10/9/01).
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The 40-Year War
Article by Bill Keller (New York Times, 10/6/01).
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Anderson on Bush
Editorial by Kenneth Anderson. Thoughts on the effects of crisis on the political sphere in the U.S.
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Prophetic
Article by Andreas Kilb (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10/3/01).
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The War That Came In From Cold
Essay by John Le Carre (The Weekend Australian).
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For Israel's Sake
Editorial by Anthony Lewis (New York Times, 10/6/01) Working for peace in Israel might lessen the negative perceptions in the Arab world regarding the West's disregard for the lives of Palestinians.
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The Ugly American Mindset
Editorial by John R. MacArthur (The Globe & Mail, 11/6/01)
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Bombs Go Astray, The Casualties Mount...
Article by Ewen MacAskill, Michael White, and Luke Harding in Islamabad (The Guardian, 10/29/01). The far-flung effects of civilian casualties: media treatment, political implications.
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Fighting Islam's Ku Klux Klan
Editorial by Kanan Makiya (The Observer, 10/7/01). The 9-11 attacks are most unfortunate, in the long run, for the Arab/Muslim peoples.
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The Myth of Precision
Essay by John Nichol (The Guardian, 10/29/01). On bombing campaigns that kill innocent people.
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After the Attacks: The Diplomacy
Article by Jane Perlez (New York Times, 11/13/01).
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Fear and Fragility Sound a Wake-Up Call
Editorial by David Rieff (Los Angeles Times, 11/12/01). Post 9-11 observations.
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Afghans Can Be Our Allies
An article by Barnett Rubin (New York Times, 11/22/01). Argues the case for an alliance between the US and Afghanistan in the post 9-11 era.
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High Cost of Coalition
Article by William Safire (New York Times, 10/4/01).
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Our 'Relentless' Liberation
Editorial by William Safire (New York Times, 10/8/01).
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Waving, Not Drowning
Article by Ed Vulliamy (The Observer, 9.23.01).
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Blair's Role on the World Stage Will Win No Applause
Editorial by Hugo Young (The Guardian, 10/25/01). Young posits that Blair's decisions, however well justified, will nevertheless be unappreciated...
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Article by Slavoj Zizek [Nettime (nettime.org) 9.14.01].
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Rebecca Gomperts is trying to save the world for abortion
Article about Dr. Gomperts and Women on Waves by Sarah Corbett originally published in the New York Times Magazine (8/26/01).
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Bystanders to Genocide
Article by Samantha Power on the international reaction to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. (Atlantic Monthly 9/01)
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Limbs of No Body
Article by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (The Iranian, 6/20/01).
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Photography, Human Rights, Memory
Some information on Robert Lyons and his photography.
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reviews Photographer Challenges its Own Narrative
A review of "Photographer" (dir. Dariusz Jablonski) by Stephanie Ravins (Bard Observer, 5/8/00) after the screening at Bard College.
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Dracula's Vermächtnis
A book review By Geert Lovink of Friedrich Kittler's Dracula's Vermächtnis. See (http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/8_1/Lovink=Dracula.html) for Lovink's original text.
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The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality
A review of Michael Heim's The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality by Geert Lovink. See (http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/8_1/Lovink=Metaphysics.html) for Lovink's original text.
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Country of My Skull (2/99)
A review of Antjie Krog's book Country of My Skull (Random House 1998) by Stephen Howe in The New Statesman (Feb 5, 1999).
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Country of My Skull (6/99)
A review of Antjie Krog's book Country of My Skull (Random House 1998) in The New Internationalist (June 1999).
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Powerless by design: the age of the international community
A selection of reviews of the book by Michel Feher and a short bio of the author.
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The Specialist
A summary of the film made by Rony Brauman and Eyal Sivan as well as a review of the film (in French).
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In Theory... Harun Farocki's Challenging Documentaries Take an Unorthodox Look at European Life
Stephen Erickson on Harun Farocki from Time Out New York, (Issue No. 212 Oct 14-21, 1999).
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Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis
Reviews of various material by Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books, May 20 1999: 58-62.
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Charity on the Rampage; the Business of Foreign Aid
A review of Michael Maren's The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International by David Rieff in Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb. 1997.
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Innocence and experience
Three reviews of works written by Serge Klarsfeld, Binjamin Wilkomirski, and David I. Kertzer. Written by Andre Aciman (The New Republic, 1/19/98).
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Faultlines: Journeys to the New South Africa
A selection of reviews of the book by David Goodman (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999) Short bio of Goodman included.
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Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
A review by John Keane in the London Review of Books (10/28/99) of "Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts."
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The Matrix, or, The Two Sides of Perversion
A review by Slavoj Zizek of The Matrix, the movie (12/2/99 in nettime at nettime.org)
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At the Crossroads Hour
A review of the biography of Chinua Achebe by Ezenwa-Ohaeto Curry (11/12/98, London Review of Books).
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Somali Author Says Secrets Destroying his Country
A review of Nuruddin Farah's "Secrets" (Reuters, 11/12/98).
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Childhood's End
review of Binjamin Wilkomirski's "Fragments: Memories of Wartime Childhood" by Julie Salamon (New York Times, 1/12/97)
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Becoming Shameless: The Failure of Human Rights Organizations in Rwanda
A review of "Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and roles of non-governmental organizations" (Claude E. Welch, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,1995) by Alex de Waal (Times Literary Supplement, 2/21/97).
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Ecumbered With Help
A review of Nuruddin Farah's "Gifts" by Suzanne Ruta (New York Times, 9/12/99).
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Somali Shapeshifters
A review of Nuruddin Farah's "Secrets" by George Packer (New York Times, 7/19/98).
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Bitter Crumbs and Sour Milk: A Nation Betrayed
Review of Nuruddin Farah's "Gifts" by Maya Jaggi (Manchester Guardian Weekly, 4/18/93)
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The Blood and the Sun
A review of Nuruddin Farah's trilogy "The Blood and the Sun" (Arcade Publishing) by Anderson Tepper (salon.com, 9/14/99).
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The Terror
A review of the book by Philip C. Wilcox, Jr. (New York Review of Books, 10/18/01)
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The Film Bush Asked to See
A review by Aida Edemariam on the film Kandahar (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf) and the film's focus: Nelofer Pazir (The Guardian UK, 10/26/01).
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Empire Hits Back
Review by Ed Vulliamy (The Observer, UK, 7/15/01). On "Empire" (Harvard University Press 2001), written by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.
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Hybrid Fidelity
Simon Reynolds reviews Paul Gilroy's "Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line" (Belknap Press 2000)
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