Against the wishes of the male French revolutionaries, their own actions let the genie out of the bottle.  To anyone who visits Iran today, it is quite clear the same outcome is occurring in the Islamic Republic – not in spite of the 1979 revolution, but because of it. The French revolution in 1789 [...]

  If you want to defy authority, you should arm yourself with some ideas   A few weeks ago, a 22-year-old man named Jefferson Bethke produced a video called “Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus.” The video went viral. It speaks for many young believers who feel close to God but not to the [...]

  The mass uprisings of 2011 in the Arab world and in the Euro-American zone may have entirely different outcomes as the neoliberal framework crumbles. ON a global scale, the year 2011 was notable for two contrasting but interrelated features: a deepening economic crisis, especially in the core capitalist countries, and, on the political plain, [...]