International

The leadership of Palestinian Islamist party has failed to come up with a program that charts a different course from the Palestinian Authority. July 8, 2009

Since their appearance in Europe as migrants around 700 years ago, the Roma people have been continuously subjected to intense persecution. July 6, 2009

Is a radical change possible in Iran? Answering that question requires a look at Iranian history, politics and society beyond the disputed June 12 election. July 1, 2009

Honduras' elected president was taken prisoner by the military on the day Hondurans were supposed to vote on changing the country's constitution. June 29, 2009

A Palestinian journalist describes the day he was detained, interrogated, strip-searched and tortured by Israel security forces--and what happened afterward. June 29, 2009

A leading figure in the South African freedom struggle draws comparisons between the former apartheid regime and the Israeli state today. June 24, 2009

A crackdown on demonstrators is intensifying, but cracks in Iran's ruling class are creating the potential for an even greater challenge. June 23, 2009

Amid the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township protests, conflicts are bursting open in every nook and cranny of South Africa. June 22, 2009

I watched Barack Obama's speech to the background noise of Israeli fighter jets conducting maneuvers over the West Bank. June 18, 2009

Iranian politics is being transformed by mass protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dubious claim that he won re-election. June 15, 2009

A bitter election contest has brought deep splits in the Iranian ruling class into the open--and hundreds of thousands of people into the streets. June 12, 2009

As elsewhere in Europe, elections in Britain dealt a crushing blow to the governing Labour Party and gave the far right some crucial breakthroughs. June 12, 2009

Earlier this year, we brought an aid convoy across Europe and northern Africa, and into Gaza. And now, we're doing it again, this time from the U.S. June 8, 2009

When it comes to nuclear weapons and the threat of war on the Korean peninsula, the driving force has been the U.S. government. May 29, 2009

The Pope will probably issue a statement expressing dismay at details of child abuse by the Catholic Church in Ireland. What he won't do is accept any blame. May 29, 2009

Thousands of peasants and their allies are mobilizing to block construction of a cement factory in a critical Caribbean ecosystem. May 28, 2009

The new special UN envoy to Haiti is Bill Clinton--whose policies as president in the 1990s systematically destabilized the country. May 26, 2009

More than 1 million people have fled the Swat region of Pakistan as the Pakistani military, under pressure from the U.S., carries out a scorched-earth assault. May 22, 2009

There are strategic motives behind Barack Obama's decision to break his promise to call the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by Turkey "genocide." May 21, 2009

The birth of Israel 61 years ago last week established a pattern of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that continues today. May 18, 2009

A resident of Gaza makes an appeal for people throughout the world to absorb the meaning of Israel's 2009 onslaught. May 13, 2009

Israeli activist Ezra Nawi faces jail for the "crime" of attempting to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes. May 12, 2009

The outcome of month-long elections for India's lower house of parliament will likely cause a shift in the political balance of forces in the country. May 11, 2009

The swine flu outbreak has exposed the absence--even in the U.S., and certainly in poor countries--of any capacity to deal with a pandemic of any kind. May 8, 2009

If we are going to place responsibility where it belongs, North America's new influenza is a result of how agribusinesses have organized pigs and poultry. May 1, 2009