Russell Brand has a deft ability to weave his spiritual convictions into a case for wholesale political and economic transformation.
Progress has been slow. Other than Wilder, only one other African American – Deval Patrick of Massachusetts – has been elected governor of any state.
The Middle East's political map survived decades of tumult. Its long-term unravelling began with Iran's uprising in 1979.
What stands in the way of Iran and the US cooperating openly to meet twin threats of Sunni extremism and state failure is any failure to resolve the nuclear deadlock.
The Arab awakening is creating a new socio-political and economic reality in the region, transforming the balance of power, not because states have become stronger, but rather because states have become weak and fragile.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have ambassadors returning to Qatar after a nearly year-long absence, a boost for a Gulf state that could do with positive media coverage.
The former British Prime Minister is parading around the world acting as a spin doctor for murderous regimes and a salesman of Saudi oil.
In 2001, Howard Clark authored this piece for War Resisters’ International on the dangers inherent in extending the degree of social mobilisation. A common tendency for many of us is to mistake militancy for empowerment. Such militancy, however, has its price.
Those arrested in Iran after the presidential election of June 2009 join the detainees from earlier moments of repression. The blogger and openDemocracy author Hossein Derakhshan is one of the latter. The anniversary of his incarceration is being marked by efforts to publicise his case, reports Da
The Russian government likes to regularly accuse the West of being ‘russophobic.’ They’re right, but not for the reasons they think.
Behind the flux of conflict on the ground in Syria-Iraq, all sides are digging in for a long war.
