Chicago artist creates “Guernica”-sized painting to mark Armenian genocide
This painting is just one aspect of Project 1915, a non-profit Kazarian started to foster dialogue about genocide, tolerance, and forgiveness.
In Germany: From the U.S. Embassy to small town thugs
This was a minor victory; in over twenty years it was the first petition on Mumia which the embassy has accepted.
In Israeli elections Arab citizens emerge as key to future
The new Joint List is now being hailed from the center to the left as the bright spot in the Israeli political scene.
Mexico student teachers still missing, reverberations continue
In the Mexican Congress and among the public, government statements about the incident are being met with scorn.
“In the Fields of the North” photos on the border wall
"In the Fields of the North" is an exhibition of photographs of farm workers in the U.S., almost all migrants from Mexico.
Colombian peace talks in serious jeopardy
After reaching partial agreements on agrarian reform and political participation, negotiators tackled drug trafficking. But after five months of discussion, they recessed without an agreement.
South Africa, then and now
In all the words emitted on the occasion of the passing of Nelson Mandela, one thread questions whether anything significant was accomplished with the end of apartheid.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: 1918 - 2013
The world mouns the passing of elder statemen and freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela.
Saul Landau told truth about Cuba
Saul Landau - reporter, author of 14 books, filmmaker (45 of them), poet, college professor, and determined foe of U.S. assaults on Cuba - died Sept. 9 in Alameda, Calif., at the age of 77.
U. S. intervention in Cuba remains intense
A new GAO report reveals that monies directed at changing Cuba's government increased sharply after 2004, the George W. Bush administration, and have remained high during the Obama administration.
