ACCRA, GHANA. Their marriage exemplifies struggle and success. She rests on his shoulder, her slender body covered in a long yellow and green patterned dress, s...
CENTRAL ASIA. Recent ideological and strategic initiatives of the USA, Russia and especially China, indicate that the scenario of a big geopolitical game in Cen...
U.S.A. The debate surrounding the economy and capitalism is narrow, simplified and doesn't address the underlying problems of society caused by unfettered capit...
GLOBAL. The successful alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union brought victory and an end to World War II. However, peace didn’t last long. Admi...
U.S.A. It is highly likely that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee in 2016. The fact that she appears to be the overwhelming mainstream favorite get...
ANKARA, TURKEY. Turkey is shaken by ongoing civil unrest. In many cities across the country, tens of thousands of people take over public squares with mass demo...
U.S.A. Although many people might be familiar with the term “neo-liberalism”, there is still very little reporting of this economic model, even though it pretty...
U.S.A. The level of inequality in the United States is staggering and has only deepened over the past few decades. Recently, Rolling Stone published a very thou...
TEHRAN, IRAN. The start of a second round of Vienna nuclear negotiations is set for March 17, 2014. The end of 2013 brought unexpected positive news coming from...
NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A. This article is part of a two-part series on Blacks in NYC. Read the first segment here.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is no strange...
NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A. New York City, known as the financial capital of the world, fondly referred to by its residents as the 'melting pot', has a population of ...
CENTRAL ASIA. In the latest decades, Afghanistan has become perceived as a source of terrorist and criminal threats to the former Soviet Union Central Asian sta...
EURASIA. The crisis between Russia and Ukraine caused deep concern among the authoritarian governments in Central Asia. Now they face a dilemma. The military mo...
LONDON, U.K. Commuters in London battled through morning rush hour chaos on Wednesday and Thursday as a strike by tube workers meant that only around a third of...
GLOBAL. Austerity has been a central feature of mainstream politics for a few years now. In analysing the political rhetoric being used to promote austerity it ...
CRIMEA, UKRAINE. The coup d’état and ongoing internal political unrest in Ukraine, which ousted Viktor Yanukovych and brought a new interim government, seems to...
