International

  • A Gaza resident asks the president of the United States how he can defend Israel's "security" in the face of the barbarism inflicted on Palestinians. November 19, 2009

  • The flat-topped hills and mountains of Orissa in southeastern India are being sold off to multinational mining companies for the bauxite they contain. November 17, 2009

  • An Afghanistan-based journalist looks at the fallout from the country's fraud-ridden presidential election and the likelihood of an intensified war. November 13, 2009

  • The horrific massacre of a Mexican union leader and his family is being blamed on drug gangs, but that leaves a lot of questions unanswered. November 13, 2009

  • A U.S.-brokered deal that was supposed to return Honduras' legitimate President Manuel Zelaya to office has been broken by the coup regime. November 9, 2009

  • The death of British socialist and author Chris Harman comes as a terrible shock to the many people around the world he influenced. November 9, 2009

  • Twenty-three Americans were convicted in Italy for their part in the "rendition" of an Egyptian cleric so he could be tortured. November 9, 2009

  • Three Puerto Rican activists discuss the dynamics of the mass mobilization against the layoffs of more than 25,000 public-sector workers. November 5, 2009

  • With a deal that would restore Manuel Zelaya still in the balance, an opponent of the coup regime discusses the resistance's next move. November 4, 2009

  • The nations that pose themselves as liberators to others will lead them into slavery--that's what we have experienced in Afghanistan and Iraq. November 3, 2009

  • A deal that is supposed to reinstate Manuel Zelaya as president forced concessions from the coup regime, but they were highly conditional. November 2, 2009

  • Two labor and community activists in Mexico describe the fight for justice at an auto parts factory in the northern maquila zone. October 30, 2009

  • The UK refuses to assert a women's right to choose in Northern Ireland, while advocating safer and more accessible abortions in far-flung places. October 30, 2009

  • With a new international climate summit coming in December, the Obama White House is supporting legislation that will lock in catastrophe. October 29, 2009

  • Ordinary Hondurans are breaking through the information blockade that has paralyzed the country since the coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya. October 28, 2009

  • The Puerto Rican government is using a refinery fire to whip up fears of “terrorism,” but the people most affected are workers. October 28, 2009

  • The Pakistani military's offensive in Waziristan is taking place with the full support of the U.S. government--and from liberals in Pakistan itself. October 27, 2009

  • Electrical workers in Mexico are mobilizing to defend their union after police occupied workplaces and the government fired 44,000 unionists. October 23, 2009

  • Two union leaders in Colombia representing workers at the important Tenaris steel tube plant have gotten death threats. October 23, 2009

  • The Palestinian Authority was forced to retreat from helping Israel to suppress a UN report documenting war crimes during the Gaza assault. October 22, 2009

  • The attack by 30,000 government troops on the Pakistani Taliban was demanded by the U.S. as a means to solve its crisis in Afghanistan. October 20, 2009

  • The October 15 general strike in Puerto Rico highlighted the scale of growing resistance to Gov. Luis Fortuño’s effort to wipe out public-sector jobs. October 19, 2009

  • The coup regime in Honduras is continuing to clamp down on protests and the media while dragging its feet in negotiations. October 16, 2009

  • Workers are responding to plans to cut 17,000 government jobs with a one-day work stoppage supported by virtually all of the island's unions. October 15, 2009

  • Economic crisis and mass struggle paved the way for the election victory of the social democratic party PASOK--and the radical left is poised to grow. October 14, 2009