Washington is girding itself for what will be an historic visit by Pope Francis this week. So many are expected to flock into the city that government employees are encouraged to work at home. The pope will address a joint session of...
23 September 2015
BANGKOK, Thailand -- China's harsh control over the ancient Silk Road
across the Taklimakan Desert found a friendly and seemingly naive
collaborator five weeks ago, when Thailand's coup-...
across the Taklimakan Desert found a friendly and seemingly naive
collaborator five weeks ago, when Thailand's coup-...
23 September 2015
In his just-released book, 'Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe', http://www.versobooks.com/books/1985-...
19 September 2015
Hadisa, a bright 18 year old Afghan girl, ranks as the top student in her 12th grade class. “The question is,” she wondered, “are human beings capable of abolishing war?”
Like Hadisa, I had my doubts about whether human nature...
19 September 2015
The world hemorrhages. Refugees flow from its wounds.
Is there a way to be innocent of this?
People are washed ashore. They die of suffocation in humanity-stuffed trucks. They flee war and politics; they flee starvation....
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