This archive attempts to collect information about the world, in particular, trends, conditions, culture, history, politics, economics, problems, and successes around the world. We are globally interconnected and it is important that we inform ourselves about the world-at-large.
ABYZ News Links (Newspaper and News Media Guide—Global in Scope)
Ahrari, Ehsan. “House of Saud Exits Cocoon of Denial.” Asia Times (August 13, 2004)
Aizenman, Nurith C. “Salvadoran Family Endures the Wages of Separation.” The Washington Post (August 20, 2004)
Alternative News Links
Amnesty International USA (International Human Rights Monitoring Organization)
Artsy, Avisha. “Dialogues For Peace: Youth at the Barcelona Forum.” Wiretap (August 16, 2004)
Barber, Benjamin R. “The Educated Student: Global Citizen or Global Consumer?” Liberal Education (Spring 2002)
---. “Globalizing Democracy.” The American Prospect (September 11, 2000)
Bhagat, Rasheeda. “Tormentors and Tormented.” The Hindu Business Limited (June 11, 2004)
Branford, Becky. “Chavez at Eye of Storm.” BBC News (August 13, 2004)
Chatterjee, Pratap. “Controversial Commando Wins Iraq Contract.” CorpWatch (June 9, 2004)
---. “Information Warriors: Rendon Group Wins Hearts and Minds in Business, Politics and War.” Corpwatch (August 4, 2004)
---. “New Halliburton Whistleblowers Say Millions Wasted in Iraq.” Corpwatch (June 16, 2004)
Clark, Jude. “Urban Culture: Representations and Experiences in/of Urban Space and Culture.” Agenda #57 (2003)
Dirda, Michael. “Borges: A Life.” Washington Post (August 8, 2004)
Donnis, Ian. “A jolt with a difference: Cafés, co-ops, small roasters, and religious groups are fueling the popularity of Fair Trade coffee, which pays small growers a living wage.” The Boston Phoenix (August 20-26, 2004)
Ekbladh, David. “How To Build a Nation.” Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2004)
El-Moslimany, Samia. “Azizah Rising.” Saudi Aramco World (March/April 2004)
Ferguson, Niall. “Bone Tired? You Need a Job in Europe.” Los Angeles Times (August 11, 2004)
“Fighting the Backdoor Draft: Military Families File ‘Stop Loss’ Suit.” Counterpunch (August 13, 2004)
Fitzgerald, Frances. “The View From Out There: History Lessons—How Textbooks From Around the World Portray the U.S.” Washington Post (August 8, 2004)
Franklin, Ruth. “Journey Without Maps.” The New Republic (August 13, 2004)
Frantz, Douglas, Josh Meyer and Richard B. Schmitt. “Cyberspace Gives Al Qaeda Refuge.” L.A. Times (August 15, 2004)
Gentleman, Amelie. “Summertime, and Living Is Not Easy For French Racked With Self-Doubt.” The Guardian (August 10, 2004)
Gomez, Edward M. “World Views.” SF Gate (Weekly Digest of World News)
Gonzalez, Juan and Mohamed Khater. “Doctor Faces Life Imprisonment for Violating Iraq Sanctions.” Democracy Now (August 20, 2004)
Gumbi, Bandile. “Speaking the Word.” Agenda #57 (2003)
Harding, Luke. “Germans Bridle at Language Law.” Guardian (August 8, 2004)
Hitchens, Christopher. “Edward Said: Polymath With a Cause.” Washington Post (August 15, 2004)
Holt, Kate. “DR Congo’s Shameful Sex Secret.” BBC News (June 3, 2004)
“Intolerable Killings: Ten years of Abductions and Murders in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua.” Amnesty International USA (Ongoing Reports)
Joseph, James A. “Public Values in a Divided World: A Mandate for Higher Education.” Liberal Education (Spring 2002)
Kearney, John. “The Real Wahhab: A new book argues that the founder of Wahhabi Islam was really a tolerant, peace-loving reformer. Some scholars are crying foul.” The Boston Globe (August 8, 2004)
Kelley, Norman. “The Continuous Decline of the West.” Brooklyn Rail (July 2004)
King, Michael. “War Drums.” The Austin Chronicle (August 6, 2004)
Kuttner, Robert. “Wrong Cure: Only in a country so beholden to the drug industry could reimportation seem like a good solution.” The American Prospect (August 23, 2004)
Lam, Andrew. “Hong Kong Film Fade Out.” Alternet (August 20, 2004)
Lapham, Lewis. “The Road to Babylon.” Harper’s (May 28, 2003)
Laquer, Walter. “The Terrorism to Come.” Policy Review (August 2004)
Lewis, Bernard. “In Depth: Bernard Lewis.” Book TV (April 6, 2003)
Livingston, Reb. “Give the Boot to the Muse: Behold the Power of Duende.” Drunken Boat #4 (Spring 2002)
Ludden, Jennifer and Robert Hass. “Requiem For a Poet: Czeslaw Milosz.” National Public Radio (Audio: August 14, 2004)
Manning, Richard. “The Oil We Eat.” Harper’s (February 2004)
Marchand, Philip. “An Extra Whack: The Genius Of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect On Their Mother Tongues.” Toronto Star (August 8, 2004)
McCollam, Douglas. “The List: How Chalabi Played the Press.” Columbia Journalism Review (July/August 2004)
McCourt, Frank. “Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir.” Book TV (August 21, 1997)
McKibben, Bill. “Helping Hand or Big Fat Fist?: Why Countries Are Saying No To U.S. Food Aid.” Orion (July/August 2004)
McNally, Terence. “Voices of the Invisible People.” Alternet (August 16, 2004)
Medina, Dolissa. “’Maria Full of Grace’ Goes Beyond Drug War’s Numbers.” Pacific News Service (Originally published in El Tecolote: August 10, 2004)
Miller, Andie. “Trucking With Tommy.” Mail & Guardian (August 22, 2004)
“Millions Turn Out For Referendum On Venezuelan Leader.” L.A. Times (August 15, 2004)
Mitchell, Katharyne. “Multiculturalism, Or the United Colors of Capitalism.” Antipode 25.4 (1993)
Moyers, Bill. “Outsourcing and Patriotism.” Alternet (August 21, 2004)
Muslim Women’s League
“Mystery Over Iran Judo Protest.” BBC News (August 15, 2004)
Nordhaus, Ted. “Truth and Denial in Venezuela.” Alternet (August 20, 2004)
North, Andrew. “Round Two For Kabul’s Trial of the Year.” BBC News (August 15, 2004)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism (Robert Greenwald’s 2004 documentary/website)
Owen, David. “Mosaic TV: A Window On the Middle East.” NCM (August 12, 2004)
Parenti, Christian. “Fables of Reconstruction.” Alternet (originally published in The Nation: August 18, 2004)
Paxton, Robert. “The Anatomy of Fascism.” Book TV (August 21, 2004)
Perrottet, Tony. “The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games.” Book TV (August 14, 2004)
Pinkerton, James. “As the AIDs Bureaucracy Cashes In, the Prospect of a Cure Dims.” Los Angeles Times (August 6, 2004: reposted at New America Foundation)
Pojmann, Karen. “Faces of Racism: Nigerians Embrace My Whiteness and Shun My Igbo Husband.” Pacific News Service (August 9, 2004)
Prial, Frank J. “Much of Bordeux Goes Begging.” New York Times (August 11, 2004)
Rabkin, Yakov M. “Social Science: Famed for inventing the periodic table of elements, 19th-century chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev believed in science's potential to govern society.” Moscow Times (August 6, 2004)
Rajiva, Lila. “Cleaning House.” Alternet (February 5, 2004)
---. “The Globalized Village.” Alternet (October 23, 2003)
---. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part One: Rapes and Rumors of Rape.” Dissident Voice (July 27, 2004)
---. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part II: Theater That Educates, News That Propagandizes.” Dissident Voice (July 30, 2004)
---. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part III: Violence and Virtual Violence.” Dissident Voice (August 4, 2004)
---. “Iraqi Women and Torture, Part IV
Gendered Propaganda, the Propaganda of Gender.” Dissident Voice (August 9, 2004)
Ratele, Kopano. “Re tla dirang ka selo se ba re go ke ghetto fabulous? Academics on the Street.” Agenda #57 (2003)
“Report: Prozac Found in Britain’s Drinking Water.” Yahoo! News (August 8, 2004)
Romano, Carlin. “A Hunched Back, A Searching Heart, and a Fiery Wit.” Chronicle of Higher Education (July 2, 2004)
---. “Revising the Grecian Formula.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (August 13, 2004)
Rosen, Nir. “Home Rule: A dangerous excursion into the heart of the Sunni opposition.” The New Yorker (This is a condensed version of a 7 part report originally published in the Asia Times—to access this 7 part report : July 5, 2004)
Roy, Arundhati. “Public Power in the Age of Empire: Arundhati Roy on War, Resistance and the Presidency.” Democracy Now (August 23, 2004)
Roy, Sandip. “Al Jazeera Closure a Warning To Other Arab Media.” Pacific News Service (August 16, 2004)
Rubin, Michael. “Talking Turkey: She’s a Democracy—No Qualifiers.” Middle East Forum (August 6, 2004)
Rustin, Susanna. “Hello To All That: Scarred by his experiences in France in 1945, Paul Fussell has sought to demystify the romanticism of battle, beginning with his literary study of the Great War. His latest book is about American GIs in Europe; his next concerns the nature of generalship.” Guardian (July 31, 2004)
Ryle, John. “Disaster in Darfur.” New York Review of Books (August 12, 2004)
Sakhra-l’Assal. “Interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson.” The Hermetic Library (2002 To appear in Dutch in Buiten de Orde, Utrecht, vol. 13 # 1, March, 2002. An abbreviated version appeared in Ravage, Amsterdam, # 2, February, 2002)
San Juan, E., Jr. “The Question of Race in the 21st Century.” (Remarks on the 9th Annual Multicultural Students Convocation, Washington State University, Oct. 13, 1998.)
Sassen, Saskia. “Citizenship Destabilized.” Liberal Education (Spring 2003)
Schaller, Thomas F. “Indian Interests: What’s On the Minds of Citizens in the World’s Largest Democracy.” The Gadflyer (August 17, 2004)
Sear, Katherine. “Raised On American Streets, Cambodian Youths Face Deportation.” Pacific News Service (August 11, 2004)
Sengupta, Somini. “Death and Sorrow Stalk Sudanese Across Border.” The New York Times (August 20, 2004)
Shlaim, Avi. “The Lost Steps.” The Nation (August 12, 2004)
Situationist International and students of Strasbourg University. “On the Poverty of Student Life.” Bureau of Public Secrets (First published November 1966 at the expense of the Strasbourg Student Union: translated Ken Knabb)
Sohigian, Jason. “Armenians Must Raise Their Voices For Truth and Justice in Sudan.” NCM (August 15, 2004)
Solnit, Rebecca. “Hatred at One End, Rejection at the Other: A Writer Retraces Walter Benjamin’s Failed Walk to Freedom.” L.A. Times (August 1, 2004)
Stanley, Eduardo. “Argentina’s Recovered Factories: A Story of Economic Success.” Pacific News Service (August 16, 2004)
Sydell, Laura. “Informed Deals Help Mexican Entrepreneurs Get Started.” National Public Radio
Taguma, Kenji G. "American Activist Remembered as Man of Principle.” NCM (August 14, 2004)
Teachout, Terry. “Unloved Elgar.” Commentary (2003)
Vong, Pueng. “Shanghai Surprise: China’s Rudeness Its Strength.” Pacific News Service (August 13, 2004)
We Are Everywhere: The Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism
Weatherford, Jack. “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.” Book TV (August 7, 2004)
White, Armond. “Stander: Writer/director Bronwen Hughes has managed to make anti-Apartheid activity look dashing.” Africana (August 20, 2004)
“Who’s Killing the Women of Juarez: Mexican City Haunted By Decade of Sexual Violence.” National Public Radio (February 22, 2003)
Wilson, Peter Lamborn. “Irish Soma.” Lux Illuminati (June 2004)
Woolf, Virginia. “Portrait of a Londoner.” Guardian (August 11, 2004)
Wright, Robin. “U.S. Struggles to Win Hearts, Minds in Muslim World: Diplomacy Efforts Lack Funds, Follow-Through.” The Washington Post (August 20, 2004)
Yglesias, Matthew. “Penalty Kicks: Bush tried to take credit for bringing Iraq to the Olympics; their soccer team gave him what he deserved.” The American Prospect (August 24, 2004)
Zion, Lawrie. “Along the Danube and Into the Deep End.” The Australian (August 4, 2004)
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