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On Global Warming: Trust but Verify

Jonathan Lash | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green


Jonathan Lash

While the U.S. delays, China is moving to lead in technologies that are innovative and clean.

20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


Loretta Napoleoni

Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.

Mikhail Gorbachev Supports US Withdrawal From Afghanistan (Video)

Posted 11.08.2009 | World


Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of ...

On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living


Robert Fuller

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

Fidel Castro Suggested Nuclear Strike On U.S.: Documents

nytimes.com | WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 11.22.2009 | World


In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow...

Time to Face the Truth About World War II

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

Medvedev claimed Stalin saved Europe from Hitler. But the facts tell us a different story. Stalin was an even worse mass murderer than Hitler by a factor of three or four.

Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa

William Bradley | Posted 08.08.2009 | World


William Bradley

Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.

Jacob Zuma: Top 5 Things You Didn't Know

Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.22.2009 | World


Jacob Zuma, current president of the African National Congress and the leading candidate in South Africa's presidential election Wednesday, is quite t...

Obama, Turkey and History

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.08.2009 | World


Murray Fromson

From the podium of the National Assembly in Ankara, Obama spoke not only to Turks, but to the entire Muslim world and he carved out an image of a global statesman.

Afghanistan: Where Empires (US, USSR) Go To Die

Tomdispatch.com | By Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.08.2009 | World


It is now a commonplace -- as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently -- that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empi...

President Obama: Set Cuba Free

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.

"Unbearable Lightness" Author Kundera Informed On Western Spy, Document Shows

AP | ONDREJ HEJMA | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media


PRAGUE, Czech Republic — A document written by the Czech Communist police claims that Milan Kundera _ author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Bei...

In Praise of My Father

Krisztina Holly | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business


Krisztina Holly

Whenever I ponder an opportunity in the face of convention and skepticism, I will remember to look to my father's fearless optimism for inspiration.