Exile as a Space of Disruption in the Ivory Tower

By Henry A. Giroux / Disrupt(ED) Feb 8, 2016 The spaces of retreat from public life occupy too many institutions of higher education, which have been transformed into dead zones of the imagination mixed with a kind of brutalizing defense of their own decaying postures and search for status and profits. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Exiled Aristide Returns to Haiti

Staff / Truthdig Mar 19, 2011 Arriving on a charter jet from South Africa, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has returned to Port-au-Prince after seven years in exile. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Baby Doc Tries to Do Good

Staff / Truthdig Jan 24, 2011 In a transformation befitting of Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol,” Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, now back in his homeland after years in exile, wants to lay his hands on millions of dollars, he says, to help rebuild his catastrophe-ridden homeland. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How America Exiles Unwanted Teenagers

Staff / Truthdig Jan 7, 2011 Gulet Mohamed is an 18-year old American citizen who was effectively exiled while traveling abroad for the apparent crime of exploring his Muslim heritage. While in Kuwait, Mohamed was added to the no-fly list, arrested, beaten and threatened with torture. Glenn Greenwald has posted a 50-minute conversation with Mohamed. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Palestinians Commemorate the ‘Catastrophe’ of Israel’s Creation

Staff / Truthdig May 15, 2010 Thousands of Palestinians marched Saturday to mark the "Nakba," or "catastrophe" of the creation of Israel in 1948, and to honor the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced into exile after the nascent state of Israel seized Arab land. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Said What?

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2010 Sound the alarm: The Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition exam taken by high school students across the U.S. uses a quotation from the late Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said. Some Jewish students are complaining that use of the Said material politicizes the test. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Honduras’ Zelaya Rethinks Exile

Staff / Truthdig Dec 10, 2009 It may not be the end just yet for Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a coup in June. Despite international support for his return to office, Zelaya was slated to leave his country for exile in Mexico. But those negotiations have now been postponed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Whitewashing Israeli History

Staff / Truthdig Jul 22, 2009 Because if it's not in the history books, it didn't happen. Today's Orwell Award goes to the Israeli government, whose education minister has decided to remove references to what Palestinians call the "catastrophe" -- when Israel defeated five Arab nations in a 1948 war and expelled 700,000 Palestinians -- from textbooks given to Arab schoolchildren. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tsvangirai to World: ‘Get Over’ Mugabe

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2009 Much like an unsympathetic friend counseling you after a breakup, recently installed Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is calling on the world to "get over" the wrongs of President Robert Mugabe. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mugabe Learns How to Share … Maybe

Staff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2009 The ever-unfolding democratic drama in Zimbabwe has revealed a new, potentially less contentious chapter. Opposition leader and once-exiled politician Morgan Tsvangirai has said he will join a government as prime minister with President Robert Mugabe in a power-sharing agreement between the two rival parties. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Moral Force Moves Into History

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2008 He was born into a Cossack family, which was just one of many indications that life wasn't exactly going to be conflict-free for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died Aug. 3. The Russian writer survived eight years in Stalin's notorious gulags and became one of his country's most controversial critical thinkers, a process that continued during the two decades he was forced to live in exile. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Deadly Bombings Mar Bhutto’s Return

Staff / Truthdig Oct 19, 2007 More than a hundred Pakistanis were killed Thursday by two bomb blasts as a crowd of 200,000 gathered to witness the return of exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Bhutto herself escaped unscathed and was rushed to her home. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )