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Latin American leaders discuss unity and poverty reduction
CELAC holds its third presidential summit since its founding in 2011.
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The promise from the left
Tsipras built his party's success on a rejection of the barbaric measures of the memorandum of agreement signed by Athens and international interlocutors, which conditioned the granting…
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Bibi Netanyahu has set a new record for Chutzpah
With his latest crass interference in US politics, he may have dug a deep hole for himself—and for America’s Israel lobby.
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Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression
Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.
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US green cards go to the few: one-third of Latin Americans rejected, 90% of Asians accepted
Asians and Canadians enjoy a nearly 90% approval rate for green cards as opposed to Latin Americans’ 66.8%, though rules says immigrants’ nationality shouldn’t matter.
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Charlie Hebdo massacre is one of many assaults on free expression
There are quite definitely two ways about it: terrorism is not terrorism when a much more severe terrorist attack is carried out by those who are Righteous by virtue of their power.
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5 years after Haiti’s earthquake, urgent needs persist
While the international community pledged over $10 billion for relief and reconstruction following the quake, much of that assistance ultimately went to agencies and contractors from…
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Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
When the only thing you’re reverent of is irreverence, you eventually get chan culture—people who shout racial slurs and think they’ve accomplished something in the name of 'free…
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Democracy in the twenty-first century
The main question confronting us today is not really about capital in the twenty-first century. It is about democracy in the twenty-first century.
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Iraq and Syria’s deadly 2014
Both Iraq and Syria faced devastating levels of killings in 2014.
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