from the Boston Globe
…Neither Chavez’s excesses nor, now, his death can disprove what he was right about: the need to grapple with the horrors of mass poverty.
Mar 112013
Mar 112013
from The Atlantic
Issuing a "call to arms," the Rick Perry-appointee decries his state's failure to provide adequate legal services for millions of Texas' poor
Mar 112013
from the Georgia Straight
… in condemning historical apologies, he misses the central point. These are not about integrating or not integrating "ethnic people".
Rather, they are about helping the rest of us question any smug legitimacy we might feel as "real Canadians" vis-a-vis those around us.
Mar 082013
from the Nation
Was it really five years ago that some brave Saudi women dared to drive their own cars to protest the blanket denial of basic human rights to women in the Kingdom? Not much has changed since, despite a few cosmetic measures.
Mar 082013
from Al Jazeera
Satellite images show political prison camps expanding to enclose civilian settlements, Amnesty International says…
Mar 062013
from The Nation
The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will mean unseemly celebration on the right and unending debate on the left. Both reflect the towering legacy of Chavismo and how it challenged the global free market orthodoxy of the Washington consensus.
Less discussed will be that the passing of Hugo Chávez will also provoke unbridled joy in the corridors of power of Major League Baseball…
Mar 042013
from The Tyee
"Gassed" by oil sands operations, families say they've been forced to evacuate…
Mar 042013
from The Guardian
Nearly a quarter of those due to be affected by the so-called "spare bedroom tax" will be single parents, according to new research.
Government figures show that 150,000 of the 660,000 people expected to have their benefits reduced because they have at least one unused room are lone parents under 60, Labour claim…
Mar 022013
from Yahoo
People often say that there's no such thing as coincidence, and there are plenty of romantic stories about those who feel they have found true love simply by being in the right place at the right time. But for one New York couple, fate took them a step further: They already had each other, and being in the right place at the right time — a busy Manhattan subway station at rush hour — they found their son…
Mar 012013
from Al Jazeera
Tribunal finds that UN bosses did not act on warnings by senior member of its staff in order not to upset Robert Mugabe…