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What’s wrong with Africa, Latin America, and all those other “developing nations”? Why can’t they get their economies on track and follow the path toward wealth and comfort so clearly laid out by the US and the other Western powers? We established global institutions like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World [...]

The 60th anniversary of Gandhi’s death was commemorated by many last week. The occasion offered journalists and activists the opportunity to relate his peaceful teachings and wisdom to the events of today. As one writer pointed out, “the more you read about him, the more he impresses you as a leader who looked far ahead [...]

Talk of torture in the US has only recently come to the forefront. Each day seems to bring new horrifying revelations about the depraved morality of our military and those who dispense their orders. Just a few days ago, CIA Director Michael Hayden admitted that three Guantanamo prisoners had been waterboarded within the last six [...]

In case you haven’t heard, vast swaths of garbage are floating in our planet’s oceans.

A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris - in effect the [...]

February 1, 2008 | Published by Foreign Policy In Focus

Wearing orange jumpsuits with black hoods, we knelt in silence on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest the seventh year that prisoners are being held in Guantánamo Bay without habeas corpus rights and subjected to torture [...]