by Derek Bolton | Jan 13, 2012 | War & Peace
Tom Engelhardt’s most recent work, The United Sates of Fear, offers a sobering analysis of U.S. policy in the post 9/11 period, painting a bleak assessment of what he labels an empire in decline. Through his straightforward prose, which avoids the daunting...
by Julia Heath | Jan 6, 2012 | Environment
Sydney Possuelo is on a mission to find the last uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. A passionate and radical explorer and ethnographer, Possuelo has devoted his life to the preservation of indigenous and uncontacted Amazonian tribes, in addition to creating a team of...
by Peter Certo | Dec 16, 2011 | Human Rights
A full year and a half before a popular uprising in Tunisia jolted the Arab world, a dramatic and still unfinished prelude was playing out in Iran’s Green Revolution. The enormous demonstrations against the apparently fraudulent reelection of Iranian President...
by Erico Yu | Dec 5, 2011 | War & Peace
In mid-September, bomb blasts and gunfire hit the U.S. Embassy and the NATO headquarters in Kabul, killing seven people. According to subsequent intelligence reports, the perpetrators were from the Haqqani network, which has been funded and supported by the...
by Christopher Bartlo | Dec 5, 2011 | Human Rights
“The United States has long resorted to torture,” writes political scientist Robert Pallitto in the introduction to his collection of original source documents titled Torture and State Violence in the United States. “Thus, the question is not whether...
