by Nathalie Baptiste | Oct 2, 2015 | Health, Human Rights, Redev, Women
All over the world, pro-choice activists held a day of action on September 28 to promote women’s right to reproductive health. They’re facing a difficult global climate. Every year 47,000 women die from unsafe abortions — most of them in the 66 countries that ban the...
by Phyllis Bennis, Manuel Perez-Rocha | Sep 24, 2015 | Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Pope Francis’ address to Congress was almost certainly not what John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and other congressional leaders had in mind when they invited the pope to speak. It probably wasn’t what they were all thinking about during the last standing...
by John Feffer | Sep 22, 2015 | Redev, Uncategorized
They were the “best and the brightest” but on a spaceship, not planet Earth, and they exemplified the liberal optimism of their era. The original Star Trek,whose three-year TV run began in 1966, featured a talented, multiethnic crew. The indomitable Captain Kirk had...
by John Feffer | Sep 16, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
Last week, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton gave a major foreign policy speech that provided a glimpse of one possible post-Obama future. In many ways, it was not a pretty picture. But let’s first look at the good points. Clinton endorsed the Iran deal...
by Medea Benjamin | Aug 25, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace, Women
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and OtherWords. Except for maybe the Affordable Care Act, nothing gets Republican politicians fired up like Iran. In the first GOP debate alone, Scott Walker promised that he’d tear up the Iran nuclear...
