Navigating Syria: The Impossible, Indispensable Mission
While on the left Palestine has brought many likeminded people together, Egypt has fragmented that unity, and Syria has crushed and pulverized it to bits.
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Obama in Asia: Washington Extracts Rent-free Basing from the Philippines
By linking itself to Washington in its territorial disputes with China, the Philippines risks getting caught up in a superpower conflict.
Rallying on International Workers’ Day in Vermont: A Photo Essay
A photo essay from the May 1st March for Health and Dignity in Montpelier, Vermont.
Nigeria: Africa’s Number One Economy, For Wealth Evaporation
Nigeria’s ‘rebased’ GDP now beats South Africa’s in theory – but how does this measure up against the country’s actual wealth?
The Neo-Zapatistas: Twenty Years After
On January 1, 2014, the Ejército Zapatista de Libéración Nacional (EZLN) celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its uprising in Chiapas. This year, they are engaging in a self-appraisal.
Noam Chomsky: Red Lines in Ukraine and Elsewhere
The current Ukraine crisis is serious and threatening, so much so that some commentators even compare it to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.