Berfrois

October 2010

The Success of Islamophobia

The Success of Islamophobia

by Markha Valenta

Open Democracy

How, after fifty years of the institutionalised nurture of human rights and anti-racism in Europe could an ideology of vicious discrimination gain such ground?

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The Time of Monsters

The Time of Monsters

Athens protest, May 5, 2010, Jesse Garcia   From New left Review: During this year’s protests against the Eurozone’s austerity measures—in Greece and, on a smaller scale, Ireland, Italy and Spain—two stories have imposed themselves. The predominant, establishment story proposes a de-politicized naturalization of the crisis: the regulatory measures...

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Poets are rock stars

Poets are rock stars

by Jen Woods This morning as I sit down to start my work, coffee in hand, the air definitely feels different in that “today-is-my-birthday” kind of way. Typecast Publishing, started a little less than one year ago, now has four authors, one whose book releases this very day.  The...

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Southern Whirl

Southern Whirl

Living Outside History | by Noel Poke

American Scholar

 History never seemed of much interest to Picayune, Mississippi, just north of New Orleans. Here, published history is only what people claimed to remember about the past.

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