The Group of 20 Summit protests in Pittsburgh this past September were a threshold event. Not only were protesters detained and beaten by the police, but they were also subjected to new military-grade technologies that have pushed the boundaries of what kinds of actions are...
In early January the BBC reported that Mohammad Bouazazi, a Tunisian college graduate who illegally sold fruits and vegetables in Sidi Bouzid, had died from his self-inflicted burns. He had set himself on fire by dousing his body with petrol when poli ce confiscated his...
Rumors in the Middle East are something of an informal news agency—and with formal news agencies being so often state-owned and state-fed, rumors are often taken to be more credible than printed or televised news. Last Thursday, for example, everyone believed Mubarak would announce that...
The final week of November brought with it the scandal of the year, as Julian Assange and his whistle-blowing organization, WikiLeaks, began releasing a document cache of American embassy cables written from all points across the globe. The latest document drop was less noteworthy for...
From the looks of it, you might think that Foreign Policy—the once venerable journal of international political analysis—had come under the editorial guidance of Marvel Comics. The magazine’s latest cover features a Hitler-mustachioed Robert Mugabe, a vacant-eyed Kim Jong Il,...
On March 31, speaking before the International Donors’ Conference for Haiti, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed the United States’ commitment to “help Haiti and to help the leaders of Haiti lead a recovery effort worthy of their highest hopes.” At the conclusion of the...
