U.S. Military Atrocity In Afghanistan Nothing New
The get-out is already being set up by the U.S. military and its political outriders in Washington.
The get-out is already being set up by the U.S. military and its political outriders in Washington.
Posted 04.30.2012
It sounds like a scene out of the 1995 film "Outbreak," but authors Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin are touting some real-life evidence that pinpoin...
Jason Apuzzo | Posted 04.11.2012
He's punk'd both the North Korean communist government and in his new film, the Central African Republic and its corrupt diplomatic culture. Mads Brügger is one of Europe's funniest and most controversial filmmakers, although most Americans haven't heard of him -- yet.
Emily Schorr Lesnick | Posted 03.25.2012
These pictures have become a staple of travel photo albums and a ritual for the traveler, a documentation of a privileged and condescending gaze upon a small, politicized body.
Atim Oton | Posted 01.24.2012
Africa is still a child and needs to grow up. But it's growth has to be on its own terms. It is time for Africa to re-evaluate its 400 years of colonialism and the last 50 years of aid. Each has changed the continent in some many ways.
AP | By DENIS D. GRAY | Posted 01.19.2012
BANGKOK -- Forty-five years after vanishing into a jungle without a trace, "Silk King" Jim Thompson remains a daily presence in Thailand: Shoppers cro...
Posted 01.11.2012
Brazilian artist Adriana Varejao paints tiled spaces and she also paints poetry. At first her rooms look like dreamy feats of impossible architecture,...
David Hill | Posted 01.30.2012
Or do the French rule Algeria? The Portuguese, Angola? The Italians, Libya?
Jetsetter.com | Posted 01.17.2012
The ancient adobes are newly dressed in bright tropical colors and filled with fine restaurants, small boutiques. Horse-drawn carriages still roll along the photogenic streets.
Randall Amster | Posted 01.14.2012
Everyone's a bard, and all the world's a stage. The curtain is finally closing on the old order, and a new paradigm of peace is being hewn from the colossus.
Marga Britto | Posted 01.01.2012
The day of the dead is one of our most beloved traditions in Mexico, surpassed only by that of electing crooked politicians and watching TV content for the mentally sedated.
Vito de la Cruz | Posted 12.10.2011
Of course, I understand, as I type this piece on my laptop, that Columbus' exposure of the New World made exploration inevitable and that we are who we are today, in large part because he triggered that European curiosity. But, I don't have to celebrate the man, his misdeeds, or his arrogant, short-sighted waste of human life.
Posted 11.28.2011
By Simon Roughneen, The Diplomat 'Goodbye conflict, welcome development' reads the Panglossian banner on the Timor-Leste Finance Ministry web...
Jay Tavare | Posted 10.24.2011
As 2012 approaches and our global village gets smaller and more crowded, we must remind ourselves that underneath the stars we are all one race, one people.
Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 10.17.2011
Today the drone increasingly projects American power and justice in distant lands. Shoot down an American helicopter and you'll soon find a drone buzzing in to settle scores.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 09.17.2011
One might think -- given this literally reactionary pro-colonialist ideology promoted by Congress -- that at least some Democrats might have to worry about losing the support of their progressive base in doing so.
Dinkar Jain | Posted 08.28.2011
2nd April, 2011 Dear Mahatma Today I witnessed the Indian team lift the cricket world cup for the first time in my life. I have never felt so proud. ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 07.13.2011
The First Grader tells the true story of Kimani Maruge, an 84-year-old veteran of Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising who earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest primary school student.
Scott Straus | Posted 06.12.2011
After every major diplomatic initiative resulted in a clear statement in support of Ouattara, Gbagbo certainly knew he could never rule. What was he trying to accomplish?
Michelle Chen | Posted 06.09.2011
The crisis engulfing the Ivory Coast is a lesson in how even the trappings of democracy can fail to keep a fragile nation from breaking apart. It wasn't supposed to be this way.
Rajiv Malhotra | Posted 05.29.2011
In south India, a new identity is being constructed. It is an opportunistic combination of two myths: the "Dravidian race" myth and that early Christianity shaped the major Hindu classics.
Joe Lauria | Posted 05.28.2011
Given the past decades of direct European control in Africa and the Middle East, and the more recent US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, it is more ...
Reuters | Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy | Posted 05.25.2011
March 19, 2011 1:28:37 AM By Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy TRIPOLI, March 19 (Reuters) - The United States accused Muammar Gaddafi of d...
Richard Eisendorf | Posted 05.25.2011
Like Pinochet, Ben Ali traded civil and human rights for economic development -- and lost.
Derek Henry Flood | Posted 07.13.2011
Only time will tell whether "North" Sudan will accept a Republic of South Sudan -- and whether or not the two states will work in concert or begin an African Cold War with oil as the bargaining chip.
John Wight | Posted 05.20.2012