Media Starvation Diet
"All during the year 1984 those of us with firsthand experience in africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent we also knew that the reagan administration and...
View ArticleSen’s Sensibility
"Some years ago i had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of santiago chile i got to know the gamboas through their oldest son luis a...
View ArticleAfrican Heart, No Darkness
"A revealing question why has v s naipaul come to be much better known in the west than the great african writer chinua achebe the two men are virtually the same age achebe turns 70 this year naipaul...
View ArticleNew China Hand
"Quite recently yet another of jasper becker s indispensable dispatches from china appeared in his newspaper the hong kong based south china morning post quot every year quot becker reported quot about...
View ArticleNotes From a Latin Lover
"Civil wars do not start overnight you do not simply wake up one morning in what has been a peaceful country only to discover organized armed forces trying to destroy each other one of the great...
View ArticleConfronting the Global Timber Barons
"Salama honduras father andres tamayo now gets company as he drives the church pickup truck around his rugged rural parish here in the frontier region of olancho four soldiers in battle dress sit in...
View ArticleStill Awaiting Relief, Haitians Question the Election Results
"Port au prince the other afternoon i had the good fortune to meet one more haitian hero outside the tent that has been his family s home since the january 12 earthquake pierre france is a 35 year old...
View ArticleHaiti’s Structural Crisis
"The haitian government started to rig the recent presidential election well before the actual balloting on november 28 mainstream us press accounts have mistakenly used words like chaos confusion and...
View ArticleThe Roots of the Côte d’Ivoire Crisis
"Aboisso this tropical west african nation once the most prosperous in the region is sliding even deeper into civil war at press time after a weeklong street battle for abidjan the commercial capital...
View ArticleEconomic Crimes in Congo
"Fungurume the 73 million human beings who live here in the democratic republic of the congo continue to struggle through one of the greatest humanitarian disasters on the planet since the end of the...
View ArticleA Huge Victory for Global Justice
"Normally the courageous democratic movement in the west african dictatorship of equatorial guinea does not pay attention to the activities of the us securities and exchange commission but a recent...
View ArticleWashington’s Role in the Renewed Violence in DR Congo
"An m23 soldier guards weapons returned by the government s army in goma city november 21 2012 reuters james akena at first the latest awful news from the democratic republic of congo sounds like just...
View ArticleBangladeshi Garment Workers Fight Back
"Dhaka bangladesh whenever there is another disaster in a bangladeshi garment factory one of the country s most dynamic young labor leaders kalpona akter races to the scene with two aims in mind first...
View ArticleThe Campaign Against AIDS in Africa Is Saving Lives—So Why Isn’t the US...
"Keep on reading: The Campaign Against AIDS in Africa Is Saving Lives—So Why Isn’t the US Investing More In It?
View ArticleHow the US’s Foreign Policy Created an Immigrant Refugee Crisis on Its Own...
"Mcallen texas mdash the most important single object that esperanza ramirez and her 3 year old daughter brought with them on their thirteen day 1 200 mile exodus through mexico was a tiny piece of...
View ArticleThe Resource Privilege
"How much are we in the west responsible for the oil dictatorship in the west african nation of equatorial guinea as well as for other corrupt vicious regimes in the global south that are like it...
View ArticleEcuador’s Battle for Environmental Justice Against Chevron
"Keep on reading: Ecuador’s Battle for Environmental Justice Against Chevron
View ArticleWhy Ecuador’s Rafael Correa Is One of Latin America’s Most Popular Leaders
"Rafael correa is often wrongly paired with hugo ch vez the late venezuelan president as an outspoken latin american populist in fact the differences between the two men are significant ch vez was a...
View ArticleCan Haiti’s Corrupt President Hold On to Power?
"Keep on reading: Can Haiti’s Corrupt President Hold On to Power?
View ArticleHaitians Are Rising Up Against the Stolen Elections
"The nbsp unrest sweeping nbsp across haiti in response to the rigged october 25 nbsp presidential election nbsp is a decisive nbsp repudiation of nbsp us foreign policy and a particularly stinging...
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