International

More delicious fare includes Viggo Mortensens Good

November 21, 2008

There were at least two films at the 44th Annual Chicago Film Festival that addressed the rise of Nazi power leading up to World War II. A powerful drama entitled, “Good,” to be released in late...

IMF at it again

November 21, 2008

From Frontline, India's national magazine from the publishers of The Hindu. It has been some time now since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lost its intellectual credibility, especially in the developing world. Its policy prescriptions were...

Update: Articles and resources on the economic crisis

November 20, 2008

What will be impact of the Wall Street bankruptcies, bailouts and blunders on working people in this country and worldwide? What's the solution to the crisis? Perhaps only time will tell the full extent of the...

The view from here: India and Obama’s election

November 19, 2008

From Frontline, India's national magazine from the publishers of The Hindu. Obama’s historic victory breaks the conservative spell at this watershed moment in global affairs, but it would be wrong to pin too many hopes on...

Cuba survives third major hurricane, this time Paloma

November 19, 2008

Aida Perez, 44 years old, was waiting out Hurricane Paloma with her two daughters in a dormitory at the University of Camaguey inland, along with 900 others from Santa Cruz del Sur, a small city on...