Mitt Romney’s recent losses to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota revealed a truism that Romney might want to study — but not too much! Parting with one’s dreams isn’t only sweet sorrow, it also can be liberating. Beneath the sorrow and alongside the liberation, one finds not only peace but often oneself. Read full article > >
Read more:
Mitt Romney and the power of losing
Cairo – The Egyptian Army announced Monday for the first time that it would not fire on protesters, even as tens of thousands of people gathered in central Liberation Square for a seventh day to shout for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. read more
Kampala – John Garang, the revered late leader of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement, once said that women are the “the poorest of the poor and the marginalised of the marginalised”. As the reality of an independent South Sudan approaches, the region’s women have vowed they will not remain second class citizens. Margaret Michael Modi, the head of women’s affairs in Central Equatoria State, cast her vote on the first day. read more
Follow this link:
In South Sudan, Women Dream of Independence
The prospect of broadcast agitator Glenn Beck recommending that his audience read a book with ‘Black Power’ in the title might seem less likely than President Obama standing up to the right-wing onslaught he faces daily. Yet, just as America needs a President Obama who doesn’t castigate critics in his base while constantly caving into his GOP bashers, Beck’s audience needs insights from the historic facts contained in one passage of the 1967 book “Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America.” read more
Read more from the original source:
Prison Populism? Tea Party Populists Keep the Races Divided for the Benefit of the Rich
Mario Vargas Llosa’s novels show a fascination with a craving for freedom and the liberation conferred by imagination.
Go here to see the original:
An Appraisal: A Storyteller Enthralled by the Power of Art
Prison Populism? Tea Party Populists Keep the Races Divided for the Benefit of the Rich
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
