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