Justice for the Folks
An interview with Joshua Marcus, on his CD, This Land – an Environmental Justice Folk Recording.
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Are Cluster Bombs Still in Use in Thai-Cambodian Fighting?
There are serious reports, but unconfirmed by independent observers, of the use of cluster weapons by Thai forces in the Good Friday, April 22, 2011, attack on Cambodian forces.
Vermont Event: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Coup Honduras
On Wednesday, April 27 at Burlington College in Vermont, Toward Freedom is hosting an event on the movement for democracy in post-coup Honduras.
The Middle East: Allies in Disarray
For the last fifty years, United States policy in the Middle East has been built around its very close links with three countries: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. In 2011, it is at odds with all three, and in very fundamental ways. It is also in public discord with Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Brazil over its current policies in the region. It seems almost no one agrees with or follows the lead of the United States. One can hear the agonizing frustration of the president, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA, all of whom see a situation careening out of control.
The War on Africa’s Family Farmers
Proposing grandiose solutions without first diagnosing the causes of what ails Africa and her people has never stopped the World Bank, corporations and the odd billionaire from prescribing the wrong medicine for the continent.
Indian Roads Endanger Ways of Life
Olive ridley sea turtles are amazing creatures. Every year between December and March, hundreds of them swim home to lay their eggs on the beaches of the coastal metropolis of Chennai, aka Madras, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.