Fascists at the gate in Greece
Golden Dawn - with its Holocaust denial, its swastikas, and Hitler salutes - makes it look like it inhabits the fringe, but it has roots that make it dangerous.
Greece: debt and memory of war
Memory is selective and therein lies an explanation for some of the deep animosity between Berlin and Athens in the current debt crisis.
Peace and justice organizations oppose new authorization of military force
The president's proposal would authorize military operations against the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) for three years.
Today in people’s history: The Japanese internment
Over 127,000 Japanese Americans were sent to ten concentration camps in remote areas of Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and inland California.
The big chill: tensions in the Arctic
The Arctic may be cold, but the politics surrounding it are pretty hot. There is a great deal at stake.
Spanish Civil War vet Almudever is as lively as ever at 95
Fighters and Friends of the Spanish Republic welcomed one of the very last International Brigade survivors, Joseph Almudever.
Losing the plot: Israel’s premier to face new Gaza reality
Netanyahu's war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly - his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush.
Stuttgart and Sarajevo: lessons from the “Great War”
The lesson for us today is that we must spare no effort to build international working class unity against war, militarism, and imperialism.
Today in eco-history: Andropov writes to U.S. 5th grader to ease nuclear fears
While not seen as an environmental issue at the time, nuclear weapons pose the single biggest threat to the Earth's environment, scientists warned in 2006.
South Sudan facing famine crisis
Over 3.7 million people in this new African nation of 11 million are at severe risk of starvation, and a UN official coordinating humanitarian aid in South Sudan says "we're in a race against time."
