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In all of the mainstream media analysis of WikiLeaks' recent release of Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from Guantanamo, relating to almost all of the 779 prisoners who have been …

We may soon look back on this period in Haiti with greater appreciation. Amidst the world-historic levels of death and suffering from last January’s earthquake, citizens have at least …

“The word ‘public’ has been removed from the name of the Fort Worth Library. Why? Simply put, to keep up with the times.” —From the Media release on the …

Cemetery near Ypres, France. (Photo: goforchris / flickr) What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single …

Once again, Ecuador finds itself deeply divided leading up to the country's sixth popular referendum scheduled for Saturday, May 7. The current campaign exemplifies the ideological fragmentation currently afflicting …

Leg shackles in a classroom at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are photographed on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) …

This can't end well. But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off others until, sooner or later, they begin …

Last year, a small crisis was created by Mr. Terry Jones, pastor of a nondenominational church Gainesville, FL, when he announced his plans to burn a copy of the …

(Photo: John Orrell / Flickr) "Our community colleges can serve as 21st-century job training centers, working with local businesses to help workers learn the skills to fill …

In his 2010 book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet so devastated by global warming that …