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Looking Forward: The End of the Nation-State?

New York Times - By By PARAG KHANNA - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - With rapid urbanization under way, cities want to call their own shots. Increasingly, they can.NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » -...

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United States, Israel opposed Mandela, supported Apartheid

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - The attempt to make Nelson Mandela respectable is an ongoing effort of Western government spokesmen and the Western media. He wasn’t respectable in...

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Editorial: The Global Cancer Burden - NY Times: Editorials

New York Times - By By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Dec. 25 (Editorial) - Editorial: The Global Cancer BurdenNewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up |...

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The Patchwork Nation

New York Times - By Adewale Maja Pearce - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - In 2005, the National Intelligence Council, an independent group that advises Washington’s director of central intelligence, published a...

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South Sudan: it all began so well

mondediplo.com - By Gérard Prunier - Jan. 30 (Special Report) - The sudden conflict in South Sudan isn't essentially tribal, but the result of clever economic pressure from Khartoum on South Sudan's...

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The US Military Operations You Didn't Know Existed

Mother Jones - By Nick Turse - Mar. 13 - This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Lion Forward Teams? Echo Casemate? Juniper Micron? You could be forgiven if this jumble of words looks...

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Washington's Back-to-the-Future Military Policies in Africa—Colonialism 2.0?

AlterNet - By Nick Turse - Mar. 13 (Special Report) - Since 9/11, the U.S. military has been making inroads in Africa, building alliances, facilities, and a sophisticated logistics network. Despite...

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A Country Is On The Brink Of Genocide And Very Few Know About It

Huffington Post - By Eline Gordts - May. 07 (News Report) - Last Wednesday, 120 European Union peacekeepers arrived in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. They took up positions at the...

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Ebola Outbreak: Doctors Without Borders Has 'Reached The Reached The Limit Of...

International Business Times - Jun. 26 (News) - NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

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Latest Ebola outbreak is the largest and deadliest since the disease was...

thebulletin.org - Jul. 14 (Special Report) - Environmental destruction and widespread deforestation seem to constitute a common thread in causing of emergence of many of the deadliest viruses known to...

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Liberia cannot cope with Ebola

CNN - By Cerue Konah Garlo - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - On Wednesday, angry residents of West Point, one of the poorest slums of Liberia, clashed with police when they discovered that the government has...

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How to prevent the next Ebola outbreak | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

thebulletin.org - By Laura Kahn - Oct. 05 (Special Report) - Environmental destruction and widespread deforestation seem to constitute a common thread in causing the emergence of many of the deadliest...

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Who’s in charge during the Ebola crisis? | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

thebulletin.org - By Laura Kahn - Oct. 13 (Special Report) - The US Constitution—written approximately 100 years before the germ theory of disease was proven by French chemist Louis Pasteur and German...

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Ebola: Is bushmeat behind the outbreak?

bbc.com - By Melissa Hogenboom - Oct. 20 (News Report) - Bushmeat is believed to be the origin of the current Ebola outbreak. The first victim's family hunted bats, which carry the virus. Could the...

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Editorial: Cuba’s Impressive Role on Ebola

New York Times - By By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - Cuba is an impoverished island that remains largely cut off from the world and lies about 4,500 miles from the West African nations...

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News Analysis: The Ebola Conspiracy Theories

New York Times - By By ALAN FEUER - Oct. 21 (News Analysis) - THE spread of Ebola from western Africa to suburban Texas has brought with it another strain of contagion: conspiracy theories. The...

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Medical establishment also a casualty of Ebola crisis - AFP

Agence France-Presse - By Afp - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Beyond the human tragedy of the Ebola epidemic unfolding in West Africa, the crisis is claiming a collateral victim: trust in the medical order....

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Liberia: The Hidden Truth About Ebola

The New York Review of Books - By Helen Epstein - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - Even as Ebola hysteria rages in the US, the epidemic here in Liberia, which is supposed to be its epicenter, seems to be subsiding....

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A message from Tripoli: How Libya gave up its WMD

thebulletin.org - By William Tobey - Dec. 03 (News Analysis) - Late on the night of December 19, 2003, however, Qaddafi treated the world to a rare reversal of form, confirming that Libya had decided...

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LYBIA : The next failed state

Economist - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - NewsTrust Rating: 3.1 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

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