For U.S. communities dependent on the same industries that have brought Russia to its knees, the time to start planning an economic transition is now.
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For U.S. communities dependent on the same industries that have brought Russia to its knees, the time to start planning an economic transition is now.
Malala Yousafzai has been used as a propaganda tool, while Nabeela Rahman lost her family to a drone strike.
The Garifuna, an Afro-indigenous community in Honduras, are standing up to government repression, corporate land grabs, and narco violence.
At one time non-nuclear weapons states were expected to accept nukes possessed by nuclear weapons states as a “temporary trust.”
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden acts as if he were the real victim of the CIA’s torture program.
From black sites to #BlackLivesMatter, it’s time to end impunity for criminals with badges.
The coverage of Chuck Hagel’s departure tells as much about the return of “war fever” in Washington as the event itself.
In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Robert Alvarez lays bare the Obama administration’s plans to cut funding for the dismantlement of nuclear weapons.
In focusing more on his travails than his revelations, a new film on Edward Snowden does just what Snowden himself had hoped to avoid.
Instead of ranking countries by their “business friendliness,” the World Bank should rank corporations according to their social responsibility.