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Syrians protest in Egypt.

Syrians fleeing the fighting at home have found themselves targeted amid Egypt’s political upheaval.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan

Now that the Arab Spring has been turned into a totally owned subsidiary of the Saudi royal family, it is time to take note of Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

Migrants in Russia

A recent campaign against illegal migrants in Russia reveals the corruption at the heart of the issue.

With corpses filling Cairo’s streets and both sides vowing to escalate, any glimmers of revolutionary hope have been all but extinguished.

Seoul rally

At ceremonies held around the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean armistice, the president sounded bellicose notes, while failing to mention national unification.

Aleksei Navalny

The anti-corruption activist’s mayoral campaign in Moscow is dividing voters, while testing the country’s diminished opposition party.

It took twelve months for the Brotherhood to go from the highest peaks of power to protesting in the streets of Cairo. What next for the organization?

That a popular revolt facilitated Morsi’s ouster is undeniable. But it has also solidified the military’s role as the final arbiter of power in Egypt.

Gay rights activist arrested

In Russia, activists struggle against rising homophobia and a government crack down on LGBT rights.

Blogs

China and India are angling for an Afghan role.

June 7, 2012

Thousands of students opposing corporate-controlled media and political monopolies took to the streets in Mexico City.

May 29, 2012

In the battle between the markets and democracy, it’s one to democracy—with all its flaws and pitfalls.

May 7, 2012

Across Europe May Day brought out demonstrators, strikers and even some picnickers marking the labor movement celebration and demanding an end to the austerity agenda sweeping the globe.

May 2, 2012

If the anti-Israel boycott's losing vote at the Park Slope Food Coop really was a victory for BDS, that's a bad thing. 

March 31, 2012

General Dempsey, Panetta and Donilon send a coordinated message as talks start.

February 21, 2012

Greece feels like a labyrinth from which there is no exit.

February 13, 2012

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, reflections on glasnost's fate.

November 14, 2011

An outspoken critic of the Karzai administration and its western supporters, Joya's perspective is not one you find often in the US media.

October 7, 2011

The White House capitulates to the Israel Lobby and its GOP annex.

September 22, 2011
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