International
Populist president faces long odds
November 12, 2008President Fernando Lugo, up against an agrarian oligarchy and answerable to a mobilized peasant movement, has yet to introduce transformative measures reminiscent of those initiated by his Venezuelan, Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts. The former bishop’s election...
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Gardens, forests and Black artists: documentaries worth seeing
November 12, 2008Some of the documentaries shown at the 44th Annual Chicago International Film Festival should be of interest to progressive activists. They deal with flora — one in the form of a community garden, another the Amazon...
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World reacts to Obama presidency
November 12, 2008International media coverage of the election last week of Barack Obama has continued non-stop. A survey follows. Africa Barack Obama’s Kenyan relatives and Africans in general sang and danced in the streets following Barack Obama’s election...
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Iraqi Communists: Pact with U.S. must be amended, or well be the first to reject it
November 12, 2008The latest version of the Iraq-U.S. agreement is “unacceptable” and must be changed to “secure for the Iraqis their legitimate national rights,” the leader of the Iraqi Communist Party told a public meeting of 1,000 people...
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Latin Americas new consensus
November 7, 2008When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship...
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