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Did you forget to celebrate World Fisheries Day? Did you feel like you were missing something all day on November 21st and just couldn't figure out what it was? World Fisheries Day was celebrated worldwide on November 21st, and what a great holiday it was. 

Think we could petition for getting a day off from work?

Check out the news report, and mark your calendars for next year.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-144127-World-Fisheries-Day-today

One of the core arguments of my Global Palestine book is that Palestine, because of its key location as a node in a global system, has much to teach us about a wide range of global issues.  To learn these lessons, however, we have to be willing to let go of many of the categories, narratives, and frameworks provided to us by dominant groups.  In presenting this argument, I refer to one of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin’s most influential ideas:

Benjamin’s invocation of the “tradition of the oppressed” [which he presents as an alternative to the self-justifying narrative of “progress” endlessly promoted by elites] is meant to highlight the fact that there are other, dramatically different...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Media are DEAD,

At the beginning of the 20th century many artists stated: "ART is DEAD!" And some of them as those united around Dadaism, as Marcel Duchamp, gave a new meaning to many meaningless things just as making the urinal a piece of art. Today, hundred years later I would like to say that - MEDIA are DEAD! They have reached the point that - nihil novi – nothing new can happen, since already everything has happened – we have seen pictures of people and their bodies that rather would fit a slaughter house wall than a cover-page of a magazine, yet those appeared on them, just as the people in the talk-shows were stripping themselves from humanity, or often news were proven to simply lie. And on the top of everything something very private – a human story – became penetrated, violated, and commercialized. This is not...

Although maybe in the United States such processes have not made it yet to the European scholars debate – after all there is between us the "ocean" of different thoughts and approaches, and as a European who have been living in the US for the last six years – I see the ocean of different perspectives even more evident, when at the same time our airlines make it shorter and shorter to fly to Americas, our “experts” often fail to understand what is really going on…

The most important shift in Europe occurred in the two aspects: first of all there is an evident separation between the so called the “North” that stands for more efficient and realistically shaped budgets and the “South” that has troubles… Another shift is the depending of separation between “Continental Europe” and the “Islanders” in particular Great Britain.

When most of the European leaders understand the...