Less than a month after Haiti was brought to its knees by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, another story emerged from the island that briefly arrested international attention and interrupted the torrent of post-disaster coverage...
Davide Panagia’s The Political Life of Sensation asks whether there is an aesthetics in democracy.
At the end of September, voters in Ecuador enthusiastically approved a referendum designed to consolidate power under leftist president Rafael Correa and to strategically shock the country's flagging
As John McCain and Barack Obama prepare to wage their foreign policy battles over the middle east, another much closer region remains a lacuna in the ongoing contest. Latin America
Junta tightens political grip in Burma
Hopes for a political breakthrough in Burma have begun to dwindle after the reigning military junta announced it won 92% approval on a referendum
Pentagon wages war on American public
Following the publication of an eleven-page New York Times exposé, the Pentagon has been revealed as having intimate ties with over 150 TV military
Violence persists in Basra
Fighting between Iraqi soldiers and the Mahdi army's Shia militiamen has continued in the city of Basra since a campaign was undertaken on Tuesday
Cold War approach to terror offers chilly results
According to a report from US and EU intelligence officials, there has been little success in penetrating the upper echelons of the
Israeli media and the language of conflict
In a recent London Review of Books article, Yonatan Mendel, a former correspondent for the Israeli news agency Walla examines the semantics of
U.S. puppeteers civil war in Palestine
Confidential documents have recently surfaced revealing that the Bush administration drafted and pursued a plan to incite a Palestinian civil war following Hamas&
