James North has reported from Africa, Latin America, and Asia for four decades. He lives in New York City.
Surging union growth and militancy is due to courageous leaders like Kalpona Akter: child laborer at 12, union president at 15, she’s now head of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
The predators of the M23 Movement are sustained by Rwanda—which is itself backed by the United States and an uncritical Western media.
With a new SEC regulation, no longer will big oil and mining companies be able to hide under-the-table payments to crooked Third World governments.
If the Congolese people can force the multinational mining giants to pay their government fairly, this country has a chance.
How the demand for chocolate—yes, chocolate!—helped fuel the country's civil war.
The country needs profound, revolutionary change. Daily life is a struggle that is incomprehensible to most outsiders.