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How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

The opposition movement must be reconstructed anew, from the bottom and from the left.

The brash webzine +972 is challenging a political and media culture that has moved steadily to the right.

The prosperous, urban middle-class—those who benefit from the government’s policies—have revolted against it. If even they don’t support the existing order, what future does it have?

How the occupied became the occupiers.

Angered by tainted parliamentary elections, thousands of Russians have taken to the streets.

Time is running out for activists hoping to stop the construction of a highway through an old growth forest outside of Moscow.

The US's nuclear arsenal has no necessary military mission anymore. But their existence continues to provoke the proliferation of weapons programs abroad.

The musical and political strands of Dmitri Shostakovich's life were intertwined like the braids of a noose.