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Justin Podur The arguments against reparations for Africa are in the details: How can you possibly measure, and repay, for millions and…
Justin Podur
Justin Podur is a professor (of environmental science at York University in Toronto), a writer on international politics (books - Haiti's New Dictatorship and America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo), a fiction writer (Siegebreakers, the Path of the Unarmed) and a podcaster (The Anti-Empire Project, and The Brief).
There are stories that get into the news, and stories that don’t. Sometimes when stories do make the news, they’re provided without…
Years ago I interviewed someone who had traveled all over Central and Eastern Europe and Central and South Asia studying states and…
A Difficulty Criticizing Third World States For a leftist from the third world, living in the first world, there is a certain…
Are people in poor countries suffering because we drive SUVs? Are they starving because we eat too much? Is it our consumption…
‘If Osama bin Laden were hiding in the jungles of Colombia instead of Afghanistan, whose help would we enlist to find him?…
Don’t Respond, Strategize. Shaw exhorts activists to not respond to the establishment (one example of a purely reactive strategy is to stage…
‘The Activist’s Handbook’ by Randy Shaw compares itself to all the self-help and managerial expertise how-to books out there, lamenting the absence…
It never ceases to amaze me, how easily fooled I am by the speeches and rhetoric of politicians. I swear to you…
Justin Podur Who in the U.S. benefits from fumigating Colombians?” the man asked me pointedly in the crowded community hall in a…