February 5, 2015 0 The Confederalists: a Kurdish movement bolsters women and bashes the West “While the world is discussing what to do with ISIS, Kurdish women are doing it.” Dilar Dirik cried in [...]
October 31, 2014 0 My lovely and uneventful week in Jerusalem As a journalist and student of international affairs, I find it’s hard to write about Israel-Palestine [...]
September 24, 2014 0 Intra-Jewish Discrimination in Israel: A Mizrahi Feminism Cut and Paste Primer Jews are the most privileged group of citizens in Israel. Jews of European descent, called Ashkenazim, form [...]
April 21, 2014 0 Honest Iranian Journalist Uses Hans Blix to Criticize America Imagine reading an interview with former international weapons inspector Hans Blix (of Iraqi WMD and IAEA [...]
April 3, 2014 0 ‘Just’ some clever ‘Foreign Policy’ activism Brennan hounded by Code Pink activists during his Senate confirmation hearing. Photo credit: Getty Images * [...]
March 12, 2014 1 Russia Today is Biased toward Russia, proven again by its coverage of Russia At 9:27pm on Tuesday March 11, the home page of Russia Today, rt.com, highlighted the following stories * US [...]
October 28, 2013 1 Slapboxing in Mongolia as Global Awareness for Hip Kids Eddie Huang on the Gobi Desert FOTB set in Mongolia. (Vice promotional photo for FOTB) At the bottom of the [...]
May 12, 2013 0 Fighting for Justice in El Salvador, Four Decades and Counting Patricia Garcia during an interview at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Years [...]
April 4, 2013 0 Ecuador’s Mining Struggle Is a Hollywood Blockbuster A Shuar monument in southeast Ecuador. Photo credit: Beth Wald Ecuador doesn’t often grab [...]
March 25, 2013 0 Obama’s Legacy and the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Syria Photo credit: www.kuzeykafkasya.com The leader of the opposition Syrian National Council just resigned. [...]
February 26, 2013 0 Argo: Best Propaganda Argo, a suspenseful tale portraying America’s favorite bad guys, Iranians, as angry gun-toting [...]
February 1, 2013 0 UN Disgrace in the Balkans Resurfaces in ‘The Whistleblower’ Balkans International Field Program students attended a book tour event for The Whistleblower at picturesque [...]