World
So far, Obama resists pressure to attack Syria
May 9, 2013The fact that the president is exercising caution at this point is, for many, a positive change from the Bush-Cheney approach.
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Professor Falk stirs a firestorm
May 8, 2013It doesn't take much to agitate the defenders of the official orthodoxy.
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Britain to pay out to Mau Mau victims
May 7, 2013Britain is negotiating compensation for thousands of Kenyans who were severely mistreated by their colonial rulers during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising.
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Neonazi murder trial opens to protests
May 7, 2013The highest-profile neonazi murder trial in Germany in decades opened today, with the five accused appearing in public for the first time since their arrest more than a year ago.
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Oaxacan teachers challenge the test
May 6, 2013The testing regime in Mexico is as entrenched as it is in the United States, and its political use is very similar - undermining the rights of teachers, and attacking unions that oppose it.
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