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Mozambique Bread Riots May Be Warning Sign on African Food Security
Nairobi, Kenya - I have a supreme conviction that global food markets are but the perturbation of a butterflys's wing away from a serious tipping point. In fact, I …
Japan Convicts Greenpeace’s “Tokyo Two” for Whaling Investigation
Tokyo - A Greenpeace effort to expose what it sees as widespread corruption in Japan's government-subsidized whaling industry ended on Monday with two of its activists convicted of theft …
Is Defaulting on the National Debt on the Table?
In an interview last week, Rep. Chris Van Hoellen, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, persistently refused to take cuts to Social Security off the table. He …
Petraeus: Dove World Outreach Center’s “Burn a Koran Day” Endangers Troops
The Dove World Outreach Center's plans to burn Korans has prompted protests in Kabul and elsewhere around the globe. The United States' top commander in Afghanistan has warned that …
US Government Report Argues for Police Force for American Interventions Overseas
President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday that the US combat mission in Iraq is officially over may give some Americans hope that US foreign policy may become less invasive and …
Lambasting the GOP, Obama Proposes $50 Billion for Roads, Rails and Runways
Washington - President Barack Obama Monday proposed a quick $50 billion boost in federal spending to rebuild roads, railways and runways — a move he said will create jobs …
France and the Travelers: “They Are Channeling Social Anger by Offering It an Outlet“
Police violence, discourse on “security”, and xenophobia: the war declared by the government against the Roms and the gens du voyage[1] has unleashed wide-spread indignation. The philosopher Grégoire Chamayou …
“They Kill Alex“
Carlos Arredondo, a native Costa Rican, stands in a parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Portland, Maine, next to his green Nissan pickup truck. The truck, its tailgate …
Eugene Robinson | Barbour’s Generation Gap
Washinton - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who may seek the Republican nomination for president, is trying to sell the biggest load of revisionist nonsense about race, politics and the …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | On Missing Big Labor
Washington - Watching the great civil rights march on television in August 1963, I couldn't help but notice that hundreds carried signs with a strange legend at the top: …