News Analysis

A demonstrator shouts near a police line during protests in Athens, Greece, on June 15, 2011. As thousands took to the streets to protest austerity measures on Wednesday, Prime …

(Photo: John Lamperti) In Honduras, the repression of human rights, and peoples' resistance to it, are as old as the Spanish conquest. The current outbreak of both …

Protesters clash with police in Tahrir Square in Cairo, on June 29, 2011. (Photo: Ed Ou / The New York Times) With revolutions sweeping the Arab world …

When access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.

(Photo: twitpic) The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — …

Turkish soldier in Anitkabir, Turkey. (Photo: ozgurmulazimoglu) Reporters Without Borders brings international attention to the three month-plus imprisonment of Turkish investigative journalists Ahmet Sik, a reporter on …

(Image: JR / Truthout) Whistleblowers are an integral part of the system for providing oversight of the federal government. Ensuring that these government missions are done in …

Paso de Aguán, Bajo Aguán, Honduras. Local human rights and agrarian organizations have reported at least 42 deaths in the last few months alone in Aguán, with 14 …

Washington, DC, is a Potemkin village of alabaster and marble where the perpetually stalled and broken escalators of the city's subway system are a perfect metaphor for the government's …

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse at the AS220 Mercantile ribbon cutting ceremony on Martha Street June 13, 2011. (Photo: AS220 Youth Photo Mem [Scott Lapham, Miguel Rosario, Norlan Olivio]) …