Zimbabwe Allowed to Mine "Blood Diamonds"

Alex Matthews, 11.10.2009

Freelance journalist, politics blogger and editor of TheSoapbox.fm

Based on the abuses and occupation of the Marange diamond fields under Mugabe, Human Rights Watch recommended that Zimbabwe withdraw from the area. They haven't and they won't.

Government Funding is the Only Future for Jewish Day Schools

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 11.05.2009

Author of Shalom in the Home

The single greatest injustice facing American parents today is that they are financially forced to send their children to schools not of their choosing. We need permanent funding for Jewish day schools.

UN Starts World's First Arms Trade Treaty: Will It Work?

Evelyn Leopold, 10.31.2009

Veteran reporter at the United Nations

The aim is to set standards for the global $55 billion export business in guns, tanks, attack helicopters, jet fighters, missiles and other conventional weapons.

Power Sharing - the Fix-it-All from Honduras to Zimbabwe

Sandip Roy, 10.30.2009

Editor, New America Media

It's good to know they have brokered a power-sharing deal in Honduras. Manuel Zelaya is happy. Roberto Micheletti said he had made a "significant con...

Tendai Biti: Brave Reformer in Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Barry D. Wood, 10.17.2009

Writes about the global economy and eastern Europe from Washington.

Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's reformist finance minister, knows something about living on the edge.

The Last Resort: A Moving Memoir About Growing up in Zimbabwe

Michealene Cristini Risley, 10.17.2009

Director/producer

His memoir paints an uncanny sense of what is was like growing up in Zimbabwe as a child, and returning to this country as an adult in the midst of the current political crisis under Robert Mugabe.

Dr. Robert Scott's Legacy Will Be Impossible to Fill

Byron Williams, 10.15.2009

Syndicated Columnist, pastor of the Resurrection Community Church Oakland, CA

Last week, Oakland, the Bay Area and the world lost a giant of man with the passing of Dr. Robert Scott. Scott was an humanitarian of the highest order.

Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner, 11.13.2009

Jesse Larner is a New York-based writer on politics and culture.

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

Zimbabwe: Hold the Line

Jonathan Elliott, 09.29.2009

Africa Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch

Before the US hands over a single dollar of development aid to Zimbabwe, there should be an internationally supervised program of government reform and audit, and a lifting of media restrictions.

Whirlwind Obama at the UN; Dictators Busy Also

Evelyn Leopold, 09.21.2009

Veteran reporter at the United Nations

President Obama makes his debut appearance at the United Nations this week, attending and presiding over a breathless array of events far beyond the usual schedule for U.S. presidents.

Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons, 09.18.2009

Photographer, artist, author, journalist

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

The Goldstone Report: Three Strikes and You're Out!

David Harris, 09.18.2009

Executive Director, AJC, and Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University

By the time the Goldstone mission "considered" Israel's entry into Gaza, the result was a foregone conclusion. Context? No way. Balance? Forget about it. The verdict? Already in

New Strategy For Afghanistan, Good News Out Of Pakistan, Japan's Elections, Hondurus Crisis, And Columbia's Undemocratic Referendum

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.11.2009

Editors of Simple Intelligence

These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A New Strategy for Afghanistan and A Rare Bit of Good News Out of Pakistan SI Analysis: The US ...

Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Sleight of Hand

Amnesty International, 11.08.2009

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights recently reported that President Mugabe did not sign the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Well, he signed half of i...

Politics is Difficult and Dirty. And a Noble Calling

Christina Patterson, 09.22.2009

Writer and Columnist for "The Independent"

If Alan Duncan and his ilk think it's tough to be a politician, they might give some thought to Morgan Tsvangirai.

Zimbabwe Heading Towards a Rwandan Genocide

Alex Matthews, 09.17.2009

Freelance journalist, politics blogger and editor of TheSoapbox.fm

Zimbabwe is in an eerily similar situation to the one that Rwanda was experiencing before its genocide.

The I-Factor

David Hoffman, 08.30.2009

From Iran to Pakistan, information access puts authoritarian rulers in a dilemma.

African Activists Demand: Show Us the Money

Matthew Kavanagh, 08.27.2009

AIDS

At the International AIDS Society conference in Capetown South Africa this past week, leading AIDS and human rights groups from the region launched an impressive and innovative campaign.

Betraying the Tribe: Michela Wrong and the Foundations of African Corruption

Jake Whitney, 08.11.2009

Wrong's new book, It's Our Turn To Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower, confronts the question of African corruption head on and finds there's plenty of blame to go around.

Independence Day for Everyone

Cynthia Boaz, 08.03.2009

Asst. Prof. of Political Science, Consultant on Nonviolent Action and Strategy

I remember as a child that whenever the 4th of July rolled around, I would try earnestly to reflect on the significance of the holiday. That is not an...

Massacres, Forced Labour Torment Zimbabwe Diamond Fields

Alex Matthews, 07.30.2009

Freelance journalist, politics blogger and editor of TheSoapbox.fm

Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe's eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.