Articles by Linda Farthing
Can the Violence in Honduras Be Stopped?
February 19, 2015 | Nearly 100 percent of the murders in Honduras' second city go unsolved. Community development, not militarization, is the answer.
Tunisia’s Unfinished Revolution
November 17, 2014 | Religious tensions, remnants of the police state, and a broken-down neoliberal economic model imperil Tunisia’s otherwise impressive democratic transition.
Bolivia: Eradication and Backlash
October 11, 2005 | Bolivia is in the grips of its worst political crisis and social upheaval since the end of the dictatorships in 1983, while U.S.-imposed economic and antidrug policies are principal reasons for the current conflicts.
President George W. Bush and the “Other” Europe
December 1, 2000 | Bush and his East-European ties
NATO at 50
March 1, 1999 | The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact invalidated NATOs original mandate and prompted a search for a new approach to European security.
Hidden Costs of NATO Expansion
May 1, 1997 | Expansion of the NATO military alliance is proceeding rapidly despite an overwhelming lack of public or congressional debate.