by Conn Hallinan | Apr 21, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace, Women
One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us. —James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”...
by John Feffer | Apr 11, 2014 | Human Rights, Redev
Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. We met in 1990 at the oldest active Jewish synagogue in Europe, the Old-New Synagogue in Prague. Daniel Kumermann gave me a brief tour of the 13th-century structure, along with the adjacent cemetery. The synagogue is one of the few...
by Ian Davis | Apr 9, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
On March 28, NATO announced that Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s former prime minister, will become chief of the alliance when current NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen steps down in September. Not only is he going to be the first NATO secretary general...
by Conn Hallinan | Apr 8, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. Happy families are all alike: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina The opening to Tolstoy’s great novel of love and tragedy could be a metaphor for...
by Chris Toensing | Apr 4, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
A six-month diplomatic dance with Iran is underway — each step as dainty as a minuet because any misstep is weighted with danger. The issue is Iran’s nuclear research program and the UN inspections that are taking place as a result. And while each side has its own...
