Argentina Strikes Deal with Iran to Probe AMIA Bombing Suspects
An agreement between Argentina and Iran to dig deeper into a 1994 bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in this city will test the solidity of the evidence garnered by a judicial investigation that...
View ArticleBiofuels Converting U.S. Prairielands at Dust Bowl Rates
The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States’ prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – rates...
View ArticleIsraeli Licence to Cheney-Linke Energy Firm on Golan Heights Raises Eyebrows
In a potential new source of contention between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has reportedly granted a U.S. energy firm with heavyweight political...
View ArticleFive Hungry Men Feed Palestinian Resolve
A few stoic lines from Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi, 33, transmitted to his sister Shireen have given new strength to Palestinian resolve to fight Israeli occupation and its prison...
View ArticleStopping Uranium to Fight Off Nuclear
Local activists have begun protests in Slovakia after a government ministry appeared to give its backing to a controversial uranium mining project despite reassurances to people living near the...
View ArticleMalian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices
When northern Malian refugees fled their country for Niger in 2012, they expected they would be able to return home shortly afterwards. But despite the armed intervention by the French army in the West...
View ArticleQ&A: How to Create a South African Society that Rewards Hard Work
In his new book, “The Great African Society – A Plan for a Nation Gone Astray”, Hlumelo Biko, the son of late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko, says that if nothing changes in South Africa, the...
View ArticleOpen Pit Miners Strike in Colombia
Two weeks into an indefinite strike called by workers at Cerrejón, one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world, the company has agreed to sit down again and negotiate with Colombia’s National...
View ArticleDemocracy Tastes Bitter as Poverty Bites
On a recent Friday, coppersmith Alaa Moussa parked himself in the same spot where two years earlier he had stood defiantly with a handwritten banner addressed to then president Hosni Mubarak. His...
View ArticleWinter of Discontent Progresses to Bulgaria
Bulgarian prime minister Boiko Borisov of the ruling centre-right Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), announced his resignation Wednesday, following two weeks of sustained...
View ArticleHaitian Senate Calls for Halt to Mining Activities
Outraged that they have not been consulted, this week Haitian senators called for a moratorium on all activities connected with recently granted gold and copper mining permits. In a resolution approved...
View ArticleSenegal Growing Up Over Marriage
When Abdoulaye Ba heard his local Imam in Dakar, Senegal, speaking out against child marriage, he found that the idea was not very palatable to him. As head of his family, he had intended to marry off...
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Media Discover the Limits of Freedom in Somalia
Media advocates in Somalia worry that a recent case against a journalists who exposed the story of a gang rape involving members of the national security forces will serve as a deterrent to journalists...
View ArticlePower Sharing a “Dangerous Concept” for Kenya’s Democracy
Days ahead of Kenya’s general elections, the country’s former deputy Minister of Information Koigi Wamwere has slammed calls for power-sharing among minority ethnic groups in the next government,...
View ArticleMore Dead Than Red
The World Bank has declared the Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project feasible. Designed to “save the Dead Sea”, “desalinate water and/or generate hydroelectricity at affordable prices in Jordan, Israel and...
View ArticleFormer Insiders Criticise Iran Policy as U.S. Hegemony
“Going to Tehran” arguably represents the most important work on the subject of U.S.-Iran relations to be published thus far. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett tackle not only U.S. policy toward...
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Q&A: Radio Gives Voices to South African Youth
Lesedi Mogoatlhe has dedicated her life to empowering African youth by helping them to find their voices through radio journalism. In a time of economic, cultural and political challenges, young South...
View ArticleEuropeans Urge U.S. Action on Financial Transaction Tax
Two European policymakers on Monday called on their U.S. counterparts to rethink opposition to proposals for a small tax on stock purchases and other financial transactions, which proponents say could...
View ArticleFormer Hostages Call for Broadened Dialogue with Iran
On the eve of resumed talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China plus Germany) in Almaty, Kazakhstan over its nuclear programme, two former hostages of the U.S. embassy...
View ArticleA Changing of the Guard in Cuba
The new faces in key positions in parliament and other branches of the Cuban state will need to prove their charisma and potential political leadership, possibly in a more participative way, in the...
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