Foreign Policy in Focus

A look behind the worst race riots in Israel’s history.

Shortly before the national elections, the Tunisian narrative shifted from the socio-economic crisis which fueled the revolt to religion.

A recent Peruvian Supreme Court decision on a death squad is a setback for human rights in the country.

A recent sentence for members of a death squad represents a step backward for Peru on human rights.

The Pentagon wastes a lot of taxpayer dollars and the actual defense cuts are highly exaggerated by the deceitful media and politicians.

During the 1960, as the Cold War heated up, the U.S. government placed nuclear weapons in Okinawa, Japan, which it did not admit until years later.

The experience of this election observer highlights the deficit of quality in Mexican democracy.

The United States is leading the way to another corporate-friendly free-trade agreement, and it’s bringing its NAFTA partners along for the ride.

Mexico has strict gun control laws. Who knew?

Here’s a way to reduce the military budget without threatening national security.

It’s as if there’s a zero sum relationship between the accuracy of targeting and those targeted.

Activists should expand the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign that targets Israel to include Morocco

Tunisia’s Salafists are the brown shirts of the Tunisian Arab Spring.

Nowhereisland proves that it doesn’t take fancy technology or big-name consultants to figure out what most people want.

A new documentary portrays the least famous and least successful of the Arab revolts.

China and the United States compete for influence in the Persian Gulf, but they also have overlapping interests in the region.

As usual, Al Qaeda makes a mockery of Islam.

Iran Parliament plays to cheap seats by calling for Strait to be blocked in response to sanctions.

Defectors are leaking from the Assad regime as if it were a sieve.

North’s Korea’s gulag revealed in its all its horror and immensity.