From the beginning of the Ukrainian revolution until the Russian annexation of Crimea, US officials and politicians have pointed to Russia’s aggression and disregard for international law. While it is constructive to point toward injustice when it occurs, it should […]
BERUIT — Refugees are everywhere on the streets of downtown Beirut. Women and children in filthy clothes beg for money on nearly every street corner. Countless young boys tote shoeshine kits, persistently following foreigners and wealthy Lebanese who pass by. […]
Imagine reading an interview with former international weapons inspector Hans Blix (of Iraqi WMD and IAEA fame) by a white American reporter whose goal was to get Blix to bad-mouth Iran’s government and foreign policy. There wouldn’t be much value […]
I recently came across the Africa Yoga Project, a non-profit organization that introduced yoga to Kenyan slums seven years ago. According to their website, the Africa Yoga Project provides employment opportunities by training Kenyans to be yoga instructors, who then teach […]
Worldwide, over 3.5 billion people, or half the global population, live in cities. In 2009, for the first time in history more people were living in urban areas than in rural. Urban populations are growing at a rate of about […]
Gay rights and increased military involvement have redefined US-Uganda relations. The relationship is moving in parallel, yet opposite ways — on the one hand, the US is moving toward further engagement. On the other hand, a movement is diplomatically disengaging the […]
* Protect Access to Medicine for Iranian Civilians * Declassify the CIA Torture Report * Fix False Reporting on Venezuela * Back Senator Sanders: Use War Money to Help Veterans * Pass the Drone Strike Transparency Bill For those of […]
Last year, Belgian undercover agents posing as a film crew contacted Mohamed Abdi Hassan, leader of a successful Somali pirate gang. The agents spent months convincing a skeptical Hassan to be in a documentary, then arrested him as soon as he landed […]
