Politics as a category is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. It consists of social relations involving authority or power and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy. Modern political discourse focuses on democracy and the relationship between people and politics. It is thought of as the way we choose government officials and make decisions about public policy.
Since the collapse of the Nazi regime, there has existed the need to understand the motivations of Nazi genocidaires who undertook widespread massacre in the name of the Reich State. Popular films produced in English, academic theses published in Hebrew, and online philosophy and history forums composed of little known languages all indicate a global commitment to understanding the particular “why” and “how” of genocide. This thesis examines the legal and social vehicles...
"The charged environment of altered and un-made familiar or known gesture420 unfolded as part of the ongoing dehumanizing project wrecked upon the viator: to unmake his world was to unmake his originality and previously unquestioned right to exist. This externalization of the viator’s figurative disintegration was represented through the state’s de-objectification and subsequent re-signification of certain objects previously taken for granted. Two examples of this dual s...
Submission from PVCHR to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding India for Universal Periodic Review 13th session
It has been 64 years since India — the largest democracy in the world — attained independence. Yet, justice for all is still a far cry in the country where the caste system continues to determine political, social, and economic lives of a billion people. Money and muscle power, together with political string-pulling, often result in denial of justice for the hapless ‘have-nots’, especially the Dalits (untouchables), ravaged by poverty and illiteracy. Atrocities and ex...
"It has been 64 years since India – the largest democracy in the world – attained independence. Yet, justice for all is still a far cry. Money and muscle power, together with political string- pulling, often result in denial of justice for the hapless, the ‘have-nots’ ravaged by poverty and illiteracy. Ironically, even after having shed the colonial yoke, its legacy continues in the administrative framework of our independent India. Atrocities, extortion, fake encounter...
In India, life of millions of Dalits, even today, is characterised by long, consistent struggle from cradle to grave. Their life is defined by caste-discrimination, exploitation, abuse, and denial of basic right to life with resources for survival – food, shelter, clothing, livelihood, and education. Sufferings and pains associated with vicious cycle of poverty continue for generations together. Margins to Centre Stage: Empowering Dalits in India chronicles the proces...
"To all those who have struggled for human rights, justice and equality . . . and dreamt of a loving, caring and egalitarian society . . ."
This book I wrote, I presume, in 2013. It is a huge book of epic parameters. The basic underlying theme is the essential difference, planar-languages has with feudal-languages. Feudal languages are quite powerful, in that, the moment they are spoken, the social structure and human relationships change powerfully into a custom-design hierarchy, depending on the language. When planar-languages are spoken, the social system and human relationship shift towa...
Essence of improving Now this brings us to the essential question of: what is improving others? The easiest ideas would be giving them food, giving them education, giving them dress and such other things. Well, food is an essential requirement. Since the word education is a wide one, for the time being one can say, giving information. Dress is also a part of social living. Well, these are only the minimal things, which only make a person barely sustain himself or hers...
La polarisation politique se produit lorsque les opinions ou les attentes d'une personne ou d'un groupe de personnes reflètent celles d'un parti politique (aux États-Unis: démocrate ou républicain) ou d'une idéologie (libérale ou conservatrice). La polarisation politique n'est pas quelque chose à craindre. En fait, c'est un test pour la démocratie et pour le progrès. L'exemple le plus remarquable de polarisation politique des temps modernes fut les États-Généraux frança...
Le collège électoral américain a commencé à semer le doute chez les électeurs américains seulement 20 ans après la ratification du 12ème amendement de la Constitution américaine en 1804, qui prévoit l'élection du président et du vice-président par le collège électoral. En l'absence de vote majoritaire pour une personne, la Chambre des représentants (un vote par état) choisit le président, et le Sénat le vice-président. Aujourd'hui, 213 ans après que le premier signe anno...
Political polarization occurs when the views or expectations of one person or a group of people reflect those of a political party (in the US: Democrat or Republican) or an ideology (liberal or conservative). Political polarization isn’t something to fear. In fact, it’s a test for democracy and for progress. The most notable example of modern times political polarization was the French Estate General during which those who were for the revolution seated at the right wing...
The US electoral college started to cast doubt in American voters only 20 years after the 12th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1804, which provides for election of the president and vice president by the electoral college. Should there be no majority vote for one person, the House of Representatives (one vote per state) chooses the president and the Senate the vice president. Today, 213 years after the first harbinger sign surfaced in 1824 with the ele...
If you need to get a divorce this is the way to get what you want.
The Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies aims to make a substantial contribution to the literature on the Middle East from various perspectives. The Journal offers both original articles to the Turkish and world academia and valuable resources for policy advisors on Turkish foreign policy. The Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies publishes articles both in English and Turkish and welcomes scholars to submit their high standard research in the related social sciences.
towards women. Yılmaz’s study focuses on the rationale behind the participation of women to ISIS sides despite the former applies a harsh ideological attitude towards women in general. In the second study of the issue, Tunahan Yıldız discusses the Turkomans of Iraq from the perspective of sectarian confrontation and conflict. Nurcan Baklacıoğlu’s study focuses on one of the most vital consequences of the Syrian civil war. Baklacıoğlu focuses on the Syrian women on a qu...
Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is a peer-reviewed journal, which is published twice in a year. The papers sent to the journal are reviewed by at least two referees (if necessary a third referee will also review the articles) and after their approval, they will be sent to the editorial board before being published. The editorial board has right to accept or reject submissions that are papers of symposium, congress, news or book introductions etc. without evalua...
In the first article of the eighth issue, Zehra Yılmaz explains the ISIS policy towards women. Yılmaz’s study focuses on the rationale behind the participation of women to ISIS sides despite the former applies a harsh ideological attitude towards women in general. In the second study of the issue, Tunahan Yıldız discusses the Turkomans of Iraq from the perspective of sectarian confrontation and conflict. Nurcan Baklacıoğlu’s study focuses on one of the most vital conseq...
An article on the Federal Bureau of Investigation and their intimidation strategies throughout history.
Judi Bari (November 7, 1949 – March 2, 1997) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Northern California in the 1980s and '90s. She also organized efforts through Earth First! – Industrial Workers of the World Local 1 to bring timber workers and environmentalists together in common cause. This article reflects her efforts in the Earth First! move...
From the Editor's page: "The rising level of political violence in El Salvador and the increasing military involvement of the United States began making front-page headlines in this country about five years ago. But as Allan Nairn reports in his carefully researched article, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon set their intervention in motion much earlier. They have been actively aiding official terror in El Salvador for more than two decades—often in violat...
A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war.
Article by Zoltan Grossman, a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a member of the South-West Asia Information Group.
Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy.
Citation: Social Justice Vol. 27, No. 3 (2000): 43-49.
Social Justice Vol. 26, No. 2 (76), 25th Anniversary Commemoration (Summer 1999)
Social Justice Vol. 28, No. 1 (2001): 138-155.