Riz Khan - Tariq Ramadan

As one of the most sought-after Islamic commentators in the West today, Ramadan rejects the notion that Islam and the West must be at opposite ends. He encourages Muslims to participate fully in the civic life of Western secular societies and urges Muslims to avoid living in religious ghettos. But how can Islam and secular society truly co-exist as governments in Europe move to ban Islamic face-coverings or the construction of traditional minarets?

Riz Khan -Zizek & Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek on the future of Egyptian politics

Como preparar Sushi

Just how much our government lies to us

Do you believe that it is in Americans’ interest to allow a small group of U.S. leaders to unilaterally murder, maim, imprison and/or torture anyone they choose anywhere in the world, without the knowledge let alone oversight of their citizens or the international community? And, despite their proven record of failure to protect the U.S.A. – from Indochina to Iran to Iraq – do you believe they should be permitted to clandestinely expand their war-making without informed public debate? If so, you are betraying the principles upon which the U.S. was founded, endangering your nation, and displaying a distinctly “unamerican” subservience to unaccountable authority. But if you oppose autocratic power, you are called to support Wikileaks and others trying to limit U.S. Executive Branch mass murder abroad and failure to protect Americans at home.

The rhetoric of democracy can no longer hide from the world of reality

The Revolution in Egypt is a geopolitical game changer.

Egypt. Omar Suleiman has blood on his hands.

hyper-managed, techno-authoritarian society

the possibility of a dramatic reduction in first world consumption without managerial fascism. leftist environmentalism has excluded all those who uphold the de-growth agenda. Instead, mainstream, reformist environmentalism promulgates the dangerous, pro-corporate illusion that consumption can continue to increase as long as it is “green”. With leftist, anti-authoritarian de-growth voices marginalized, the most persuasive ecologists today are authoritarians on the right.