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Salvador Allende Has Words for Barack Obama From the Other Side of Death Salvador Allende Has Words for Barack Obama From the Other Side of Death

As the 2012 election draws closer, what can Obama learn from the many battles of Chile's most famous president?

Oct 11, 2011 / Ariel Dorfman

Bloodbath in Cairo: An Eyewitness Account Bloodbath in Cairo: An Eyewitness Account

In some of the worst violence since the revolution, a peaceful march of mostly Coptic Christians was brutally attacked by Egyptian security forces, leaving 25 people dead and 300 i...

Oct 11, 2011 / Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Malalai Joya’s Message on the 10th Anniversary of the Afghanistan War Malalai Joya’s Message on the 10th Anniversary of the Afghanistan War

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

Oct 8, 2011 / Peter Rothberg

Will Anna Politkovskaya’s Killer Finally Face Justice? Will Anna Politkovskaya’s Killer Finally Face Justice?

Five years after the death of the Russian journalist, police have arrested a central figure in the murder. But will the investigation get to the bottom of all the uncomfortable tru...

Oct 7, 2011 / Adam Federman

WikiLeaks Haiti: US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force

WikiLeaks Haiti: US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force WikiLeaks Haiti: US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force

As the renewal date for the UN mission in Haiti nears, WikiLeaks cables reveal a litany of MINUSTAH’s failures.

Oct 6, 2011 / Dan Coughlin

Jeremy Scahill: Al-Shabab’s Deadly Bomb Blast in Somalia Jeremy Scahill: Al-Shabab’s Deadly Bomb Blast in Somalia

Al-Shabab is the direct product of America's short-sighted and invasive foreign policy and American involvement in Somalia has benefitted the radical groups it has set out to defea...

Oct 5, 2011 / Press Room

Awlaki Assassination Puts Obama Above the Law

Awlaki Assassination Puts Obama Above the Law Awlaki Assassination Puts Obama Above the Law

Welcome to the Drone Empire, in which the president's executioners can kill without legal restraint.

Oct 5, 2011 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The UK’s Labour Party Finds Its Voice The UK’s Labour Party Finds Its Voice

Ed Miliband has began to nudge his party in a new direction—a left populism that just might challenge Britain’s real rulers, in corporate boardrooms and in Parliament.

Oct 5, 2011 / D.D. Guttenplan

Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama

Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama

The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.

Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney

Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy

When it comes to a financial transactions tax, European conservatives and American nurses are way ahead of President Obama.

Oct 5, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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