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Written by Various Authors
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Monday, 09 March 2009 |
 After 17 years since the end of El Salvador's civil war, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is poised to accomplish what its guerrilla predecessors never did: take over the national government. Reliable polls unanimously project that FMLN candidate Mauricio Funes will win the March 15 presidential elections. What all this means for El Salvador -- and Latin America -- is the subject of the new, in-depth report, "The 2009 El Salvador Elections: Between Crisis and Change." |
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Written by Sam Mayfield
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
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 Tamil Student Funeral Procession
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Written by Matt Dineen
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
 "What the cynics fail to understand," Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address, "is that the ground has shifted beneath them—that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply." Can progressive social movements in the United States apply the new president's own words toward successful strategies for truly meaningful change under his administration? What does the lack of visible dissent at Obama's inauguration suggest about the politics of protest and the prospects for global justice in the post-Bush era? |
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Written by Benjamin Dangl
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
 Just three companies control approximately 80 percent of the beer industry in the US. Brewing beer at home is one way to counter this corporate monopoly. However, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama and Oklahoma still outlaw the craft. Recently, a victory for homebrewers was scored in Utah, when on February 19th the State Senate legalized homebrewing, bringing the state out of the shadows of prohibition. |
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Written by Jeremy Seabrook
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
 A smoky sunset in the choking streets around Old Delhi Railway Station, where the traffic is permanently stalled. Low sunlight through a violet cloud bathes the scene in blood. Stringy cycle-rickshaw drivers strain every muscle with a mountainous load of goods to be despatched from the station. Everything moves with agonizing slowness, as though people are in an alien element. As indeed they are: displaced villagers struggling to survive in the city. |
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Written by Tony Iltis
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Monday, 02 March 2009 |
 In a speech to military troops at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina on February 27, US President Barack Obama announced that most of the 142,000 US soldiers in Iraq will be withdrawn by August 2010, leaving behind a “residual force” of 50,000 troops. The remaining troops will be withdrawn by the end of 2011, he said. Obama supports continuing, and even intensifying, Bush’s phony “war on terror” in Afghanistan, while signalling he wants to wind it back in Iraq. |
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Written by John Lasker
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Thursday, 26 February 2009 |
 Mining in the DRC |
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