World

Nowadays it doesn’t take tanks to overrun Europe

November 5, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

Because Germany has the biggest economy in the EU, and is at the center of a "core" of wealthy nations that also use the Euro - France, Austria, and the Netherlands - Berlin largely calls the...

Visitors to Snowden and visitors to Berlin

November 5, 2013 By Victor Grossman

Three men flew from Berlin to Moscow, were taken in a car with tinted glass windows to a secret location - where they met Edward Snowden. The meeting was very interesting. So were the three visitors.

Around world, migrants demand right to stay home

November 4, 2013 By David Bacon

The immigration debate in the United States usually treats the migration of people into this country as something unique. But it is not.

Government shuts down, but anti-Cuba program keeps going

November 1, 2013 By Richard Grassl

While essential government services that help millions of ordinary people were shut down, Radio and TV Marti kept broadcasting.

War zone extends to Colombian prisons

October 31, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Negotiators at peace talks in Cuba between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are discussing political prisoners as part of their current agenda item.