Across Eastern and Central Europe, as unemployment surges and the European Union dithers, nationalist conservative and far right parties are on the march.
Hawaii seems both the unlikeliest and most appropriate location for the Occupy movement to appear and Occupy groups have popped up on all the major islands.
Although political and social divisions have long fissured Haitian movements, organizations from across historic divides are demanding many of the same things. One clear, common emphasis is the immediate need for land and housing for the displaced.
Many of the same ultra-right families of the richest 1% in the U.S. currently attacking New Deal reforms protecting working families are the same families who attacked President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s for introducing these reforms.
While imprisoned for the attempted assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, three anarchists -- Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold -- published a sort of underground magazine, by and for the men with whom they were jailed.
The League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria is in an administratively critical time with the Observer Mission members from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates leaving.
Against the background chatter about nationalization and environmental sustainability, South Africa needs to carefully consider the continued development of its vast mineral resources.