"Next French revolution: a less colorblind society"

Next French revolution: a less colorblind society
Now comes the hard part. As the nationwide violence that has racked France for two weeks begins to abate, the country's leaders and citizens find themselves facing tough questions about the fundamental values that define the French dream: liberty, equality, and fraternity.

Genocide Survivors in Danger, Says Ibuka
Genocide survivors "will be wiped out" if the Rwandan government does not step up their security and bring to justice murderers intent on destroying evidence in genocide trials, the biggest genocide survivors organization in Rwanda said on Tuesday.

France Writhes, America Backslides
France has been wracked by the most widespread civil disturbances since World War Two, and claims to be rethinking its model for integrating non-whites and non-Christians. Ten percent of France is Muslim – Arabs and Black Africans. The white French majority is being confronted with how white supremacist they really are, by second and third generation French citizens of immigrant ancestry – young people whose parents and grandparents were born in the colonies whose ruthless exploitation made France a great power.

England: A long way from equality
ACADEMICS HAVE criticised misleading press reports claiming Britain's black and minority ethnic communities were 'breaking through the class barrier'

Another 754 protesters freed in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has freed another 754 people arrested in a massive round-up during anti-government protests that led to 42 deaths earlier this month. The latest release brings to 9,047 the number of people freed since the crackdown by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government on demonstrations over a disputed May 15 election.

Row over American control of the net avoided

Dalits in Gujarat
Valjibhai Patel, Director of the Ahmedabad-based Council for Social Justice, is a noted lawyer and Dalit activist. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand he talks about his work and the Dalit movement in Gujarat

New Orleans' Racial Divide: An Unnatural Disaster
When Hurricane Katrina tore up the roof of my house, it didn¹t care that I¹m black. My white neighbors, like my black neighbors, saw trees fall on their homes and saw their refrigerators rot and mold. They, like I, lived without electricity or phone for over a week after that color-blind natural disaster.

Israel wants US to pull out from Iraq
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak today called upon the United States to reduce its forces in Iraq, saying Washington had "made mistakes" and its continued presence in that country would complicate the problem with fallout in the entire West Asia.

Let Us Blow Up Bill O'Reilly
Of course the PR-sucking Fox News blowhard is off his nut. Again.
Question is, Should you care?
It's almost too easy. He's too easy a target, really, Bill O'Reilly of the casually toxic Fox News, too bloviated and too silly and too undercooked, and no one whose opinion you truly value or with an IQ higher than their waist size actually watches him with anything resembling intellectual honesty or takes anything he says the slightest bit seriously. You hope.