Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, wasn’t allowed into Israel on a recent trip. That action fits a pattern of Israeli efforts to hide the human consequences of the siege of Gaza and of the escalating settlement expansion in the West Bank.
President-elect Obama faces some serious obstacles to restructuring the Pentagon if in fact he intends to do so.
The ‘liberal’ U.S. media continues to take pleasure in describing how the dreams of the Cuban revolution have faded into decay.
The U.S. economy has been crumbling for some time, and the backlog of necessary repairs is long. The same can be said for many other economies around the world, so it’s no wonder that everyone is readying their own fiscal cures.
With the Six Party Talks to denuclearise North Korea once again on the ropes and the world reeling from a deepening financial crisis, the United States is looking to China for help.
As financial crisis looms, the Philippines look to overseas Filipinos to keep the country together.
This absorbing alternative history of postwar Germany by Paul Hockenos chronicles the speedy transformation of a rock-throwing Marxist into a powerful foreign minister.
The South American country’s refusal to make ‘immoral and illegitimate’ payments exposes an international financial architecture glitch.
David Bacon’s book ‘Illegal People’ illustrates how U.S. employers deal with undocumented workers as part of a strategy for competition and profits in the age of globalization.
Public diplomacy takes on new meaning as the German and Iranian Women’s soccer teams take to the field.
The Obama administration should ditch Washington’s policies of military support and arms exports to India and Pakistan.
The new Taiwanese president could substantially alter the cross-strait dynamic.
Claims of a post-racial society are undermined by racism in mainstream media.
The Indian state of Kerala’s alternative development model offers valuable lessons as the global economic crisis unfolds.
Reading this book as merely a condemnation of bad corporations misses the real insights the book has to offer.