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The best-selling “People’s History of the United States” by the late people’s historian Howard Zinn begins with a story about the Arawak men and women of the Bahama Islands …

Editor’s Note: Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the “good guys” spreading “democracy” and “liberty” around the world. When the United States inflicts unnecessary death and …

With much to deliberate since their last meeting in 2005, 140 leaders from across the globe came together in New York for the Assembly of the United Nations September …

“They close on one corner and open on another. The workers don't have any protection at all,” says Marielos DeLeón of the National Coalition for a Safe Country without …

Reclama: Thank you for the opportunity to interview you. We've found that many Peace Corps Volunteers have read your books. One told me that "Confessions of an Economic Hit …

Last week’s grotesque revelation about American public health doctors infecting nearly 700 Guatemalans with venereal disease to test penicillin from 1946-48 marked just the start of the U.S. government’s …

The streets of Ecuador remained quiet today, a day after a dramatic standoff left President Rafael Correa holed up in a hospital for 12 hours and claiming that a …

Mexico City - President Rafael Correa of Ecuador was rescued from the hospital where he was trapped Thursday for 12 hours, but the political implications of the attempt to …

"America has evolved for the better. She will pretty much meet you on your terms. In fact, I think she has finally come to the conclusion that Blacks, Mexicans, …

Mexico City - Press advocates and newspaper editors say a campaign by criminal syndicates to kill journalists is drawing a dark curtain across swaths of Mexico. "We aren't reporting …