Until a strategy is grounded not in the elites but in the ordinary citizens and is based on basic human needs, then any project for renewal is subject to a wide variety of destabilizing forces, not least when elites seek to duck out from the commitments t
Venezuela is not just another banana-oil republic; and the United States has, once again, deeply damaged itself in Latin America.
Washington insists its “train and equip force'” of 10 combat helicopters and 150 military instructors is solely intended to help Georgia combat Islamic radicals in the lawless Pankisi Gorge, allegedly a safe haven for al Qaeda militants and their Chechen
Israel must choose today between peace on internationally recognized terms with the dispossessed indigenous people of their State, or face another half-century of isolation with the backdrop of a rapidly encroaching demographics dilemma.
To understand the resilience of the Palestinian community is to take a more detailed–albeit less dramatic–look at what is happening on the ground behind the bleak daily headlines.
The Palestinians are doing what any American citizen would do: we are fighting for our rights.
It is high time that the primacy of national health policy over international agreements, including the WTO, be restored.
he conflict between forces loyal to President Hugo Chavez and those opposed to him heated up particularly after November 2001, when Chavez, using new powers granted him by the National Assembly, passed 49 laws, some of which were extremely controversial–
The events of 9-11 have permitted the Bush administration to paint U.S. foreign policy as a matter of black and white choices.
As Indian opposition leaders have charged, it was part of a broader tendency toward eliminating civil liberties and scapegoating cultural minorities in an aggressive effort to impose a unified sense of nationhood on one of the world’s most culturally dive
The Ubuntu forum gave voice to those not able to speak up.
At this crucial juncture, leadership appears to be lacking.
Clarifying ISAF’s role in Kabul and elsewhere would strengthen the interim government’s ability to respond to security issues.
The American empire wants to make neo-liberal globalization a reality. All those opposed to that should be aware that the U.S. will fight them.
Today, Ariel Sharon and his government are creating a third wave of Palestinian refugees by attacking those very same refugees who, decades ago, fled for their lives and have been living under illegal Israeli occupation ever since.