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Broadway’s touring ‘West Side Story’ tweaks theme, boosts Q love
By Rady Ananda
Arthur Laurents’ story about love, racism and violence set in 1950s New York City took on a new twist under the direction of David Saint in Broadway Across America's Ft. Lauderdale production of West Side Story. By making subtle changes (from the 1961 film version starring Natalie Wood), Saint softens the criticism of US racism and salutes same-sex love.
When I first saw the film as a teen, the song “America” shocked me with its blunt lines, “Life is all right in America … if you are white in America.” Given our media-fostered culture of anti-Arab sentiment, I looked forward to hearing those words again. Instead, under Saint’s direction, the song mocked Puerto Rico. “Twelve in a room in America” became San Juan’s burden.
Egypt and Iran After Mubarak
By Brian Downing posted by Michael Collins
The remarkable rising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has roused interest throughout the world. Interest is especially keen in Iran, where official statements and propaganda have been aimed at the so-called Arab Street for many years now. Egyptians did not need a foreign agit-prop campaign to know Mubarak was brutal and corrupt, that he had acquiesced to various US and Israeli policies, and that their futures were not bright. Nonetheless, Iran will seek to take advantage of the new situation, and interaction between the two countries will be critical for years to come.
The Conflict With Sunni-Arab States
For decades now, there has been a low-level conflict between Iran and several Sunni-Arab states. The origin of the conflict goes back centuries and involves both sectarian and geopolitical elements. Its more immediate cause was Ayatollah Khomeini’s call for Islamic revolution in 1979 and Iraq’s invasion the following year, which was backed by many Sunni Arab states.
Is this the Beginning of The Second American Revolution?
By Timothy Gatto
What’s happening in Wisconsin is only a prelude to what is eventually going to happen all over the country. This nation is backsliding into a time when there were no Unions and people were being taken advantage of by those that employed them. This is a travesty. We are supposedly a progressive nation, but it seems that we are backpedaling as fast as we can. It is no wonder why the Unions mounted demonstrations in the State Capitol. They are losing rights that they have fought to bring about for years.
Arabs are back to history
Salim Nazzal
Arabs are back to history in the most creative way paving the way towards the emerging of new Arabs. These are the words of Saif daana the Palestinian professor of sociology predicting in an article published at Al Jazeera site that the current revolution will not stop unless all the Arab despotic regimes become history.
The events on the ground show that Danna optimism is not ungrounded. Most Arab observers point out that the waves of protests which they call the ”Arab revolution” have become a contagious phenomenon moving from one Arab country to another.
US Workers: Resurgent or Waging a Rearguard Action?
by Stephen Lendman
For decades, organized labor has been hammered after painful years of organizing, taking to the streets, going on strike, holding boycotts, battling police and National Guard forces, and paying with their blood and lives before real gains were won.
Important ones included an eight hour day, a living wage, essential benefits including healthcare and pensions, and the pinnacle of labor's triumph with passage of the landmark 1935 Wagner Act, establishing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It guaranteed labor the right to bargain collectively with management on equal terms for the first time, what's now sadly lost.
Truth in Stuttgart
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon:
Three months ago, I briefly participated in a Palestinian solidarity conference in Stuttgart. The event was dedicated to the 'One State Solution'. As it happened, I was touring in Germany at the time, and thus accepted an invitation by the organiser to say a few words.
Being primarily an artist, rather than a politician or an activist, I am committed to truth and beauty rather than a party-line or any given ideological doctrine. Yet, without my intending to do so, and in just a few sentences – I managed to cross every possible ‘red line’, and I bought myself a few more enemies.
Egypt's Spirit Lands in Wisconsin
by Stephen Lendman
It landed, but it's too soon to know where it's going or how committed workers are to stay the course and spread it to other US states.
Houston cops who stomp 15-yr-old charged with misdemeanor
By Rady Ananda
The recent public release of a video capturing police brutality that resulted in seven Houston police officers being fired while only four have been charged with misdemeanors has prompted fresh outrage. (Image: Top row: Officers Drew Ryser and Phillip Bryan. Bottom row: Officers Andrew T. Blomberg and Raad M. Hassan.)
In the video below, we see 15-year-old Chad Holley running from the cops after a robbery on March 23 of last year. After being knocked to the ground by a police car, he immediately rolls onto his stomach and puts his hands behind his head. Before cuffing him, Houston police begin kicking him in the head and punching him several times in a clear felonious assault.
Note that one cop, standing between the boy's legs, kicks him in the groin four times, and smashes his knees in an apparent attempt to break them. Another cop slugs him several times while others hold the boy down.
EXEMPTIONS AFTER GIVING OBAMA THE GREAT CAPITAL Unconscionable NOW SEEKS BALANCE, REDUCE THE DEFICIT punish people
Comments for CX36 Radio Centenario of American sociologist, Prof. James Pears from New York
"One of Obama's cuts is to reduce or eliminate the subsidy of poor people who will live not only in poverty but cold as a freezer due to separate authority of President Obama. A pittance for president who seeks at all costs to satisfy the ultra right and prove capable of punishing the people as much as Bush and other reactionaries. "
Chury: Petras, how are you?
Petras: Well, here we are waiting for the call to start our interview.
Persian Gulf's name is an eternal reality: Prof. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh
Interview by Kourosh Ziabari
Prof. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He teaches geopolitics at the Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran. He has been the advisor of the United Nations University and the founder and manager of the London-based Urosevic foundation. Mojtahedzadeh has published more than 20 books in Persian, English and Arabic on the geopolitics of Persian Gulf region and modern discourses in international relations. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Moreover, he has been a member of the British Institute of Iranian Studies since 1993. Prof. Mojtahedzadeh earned a Ph.D. in Political Geography from the University of London in 1993 and also obtained a Ph.D. in Political Geography from the University of Oxford in 1979.
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