Instead of promoting a rational, reasoned response to the swine flu outbreak, global health officials helped inflame sentiment against immigrants in the United States and across the globe.
The United States should re-engage Latin America by turning the soon-defunct Guantánamo Bay prison into a medical center.
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Carbon markets are undermining economic justice, sustainability, and climate stability goals.
On her foreign policy agenda: There’s every indication that it closely parallels that of the Bush administration.
In a new interview, Noam Chomsky talks about U.S. war plans, what you don’t read in the mainstream media, and why international affairs are run like the mafia.
Do the 2006 elections mark a return of the Enlightenment?
Veterans of the Iraq War return home to face the friendly fire of an indifferent Pentagon and Veterans Administration.
There are some people in the world’s wealthy countries who forecast that 2005 will be a decisive year for Africa.
If one adds up all the costs of war beyond the $355.5 billion military budget, the U.S. spends in excess of $465 billion each year for defense, or $1.2 billion a day.
Wars are waged with the bodies of the young, and they always come home.
Instead of continuing the cycle of violence, we need to re-evaluate policies that lead to such anger and resentment.
Current U.S.-UN Iraq policy has failed. A change to a more humane and practical policy by the U.S. would quickly be accepted by the UN Security Council as a whole.
Through a combination of street protests, sophisticated policy reviews, media exposes, and powerful commentaries in the print and electronic media, AIDS activists have forced the issue of access to HIV/AIDS care in developing nations.