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Amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud and a chaotic international relief effort, Haitians themselves are surviving with dignity and heroism.

The former Haitian president discusses his country, his exile and possible return and why his party, still popular in Haiti, isn't allowed to participate in the upcoming election.

The award winning filmmaker and reporter recounts his conversation with exiled former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and explains the state of Haitian politics today.

"It's fair to smash up someone's future but not to smash up someone's lobby," says UK journalist Laurie Penny of the student protests in London last week.

Rimjin-gang, the first magazine about North Korea written by North Koreans, aims to deepen Westerners' knowledge of the country with a new English-language anthology.

If you thought our monster embassy in Afghanistan was going to be the end of it, consider that we're now set to stay in the country long after Obama's 2011 withdrawal deadline.

The British government's planned education spending cuts sparked a demonstration on Wednesday, when tens of thousands took to the streets and a handful of militants broke the windows on the ground floor of Millbank Tower, home of the Conservatives.

Dilma Rousseff has taken over from Lula’s legacy, which has helped put an end to the Washington Consensus.

According to Cohen, half of Russia looks back to Joseph Stalin as a great leader and the other half as a genocidal murderer. In his new book, he examines the ongoing struggle to reconcile the troubled period of Stalin's rule in Russian history.

Fatima Bhutto, standing where her father was killed by police in Pakistan, on how her memoir was the only way to seek justice for the violence done to her family.

Blogs

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

 Rick Perry, Christian Zionist, fires a warning shot.

September 16, 2011

 Tehran raises the possibility of a deal over its nuclear program.

September 6, 2011
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