Protesters outside Libyan embassy in London, February 2011. Beset by the twin dangers of Islamism and nominally secular authoritarianism, the Arab revolutions continue to shake up the region as they move through their second year. The Syrian uprising shows that the… Read moreYear Two of the Arab Revolutions
by Kevin Anderson, US Marxist-Humanists
Beset by the twin dangers of Islamism and nominally secular authoritarianism, the Arab revolutions continue to shake up the region as they move through their second year. This essay, which first appeared in Logos, Vol. 11, Issues 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2012), is based upon a presentation to a Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization in Chicago on July 14, 2012 — Editors
Continue ReadingYEAR TWO OF THE ARAB REVOLUTIONSLeon Panetta warned that the latest escalation over islands disputed by China and Japan could lead to war—even as he arrived in Tokyo to inaugurate a new anti-missile system.
