One step the Obama administration can take immediately is to develop a comprehensive strategy outlining the actions it will take to end child marriage globally. Lyric Thompson asks whether it will do so at today's GIRL Summit in London on ending forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
The growth of ISIS is hardly violence in a vacuum. Despite the rapid onset of historical amnesia, America must face up to its post-occupation legacy in Iraq.
Eye-opening short video exposing the secret Brussels/Washington pact that threatens the NHS.
Brazil´s military police have long equated law enforcement with warfare. But there are signs that the status quo is changing, and worldwide.
Any apparent indications that the US may be rethinking its stance over Israel are unlikely to come to more than wishful thinking.
A painful legacy of the Srebrenica slaughter can be felt in the United States, where soldiers of the perpetrator’s army - the Army of Republika Srpska - have sought refuge since the war ended.
The TTIP trade treaty talks re-open in Brussels this week. We should not be reassured by the convenient 'leak' of a private letter between key TTIP advocates claiming the treaty poses no threat to the NHS.
Shockingly, to the west, some of the violent outbursts coming out of Israel are being made by senior Israeli officials, including current ministers.
Extracted from "Life Cycles" (reviewed here), in which Julian, racing around the world on his bike, accepts the hospitality of the bayou-dwelling Lemoine family, and confronts the contradictions of their generosity and their racism
A somewhat bleak survey of American democratic prospects for this American Independence Day begins by reminding us what America was meant to be all about.
Israel hopes that any Islamist extremists planning to infiltrate its borders will come up against a brick wall.
The US's failure to destroy the remnants of Iraq's chemical weapons stock, along with many others, haunts as ISIS continues its advance - now with access to this dangerous and unstable arsenal.
