Mark Lang

World Notes: Somalia, Cuba, Russia

February 26, 2010 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Somalia danger signs; new Cuban Five campaign; Russians still like "Soviet."

World AIDS Day: ‘Be faithful, be tested, be unionized’

December 1, 2009 By John Wojcik

In South Africa, a highly successful AIDS program is led by a union.

World Notes: Bulgaria, Romania, Africa, Israel, Nicaragua, China, Cuba

November 2, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Army weekly, reported last month that two new U.S. military bases are under construction in Bulgaria and Romania at costs respectively of $60 and $50 million.

‘District 9’ — profoundly racist

October 23, 2009 By John Woodford

What D. W. Griffiths did to U.S. history in his technically magnificent but thematically racist "Birth of a Nation," Neill Blomkamp does to Africa in the profoundly racist "District 9."

South American & African countries hold historic meeting

October 7, 2009

Leaders of more than 60 South American and African countries met on Margarita Island, Venezuela, last month, raising the possibility of a new bloc of nations that can reduce their dependence on the U.S. and other...