Toward Freedom

Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History: It Will Destroy the Future

Ramzy Baroud

If history ever repeats itself, it does so only when we fail to learn its important lessons. Israel might be prepared to take such chances, but why should the rest of the world?

The Apple Connection: Globalization and Outsourcing

Walden Bello

Apple Factory in China

Transnational corporations and their practice of outsourcing jobs are front-and-center when it comes to the current economic crisis.

Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom

Jake Blumgart

Anti-Right Protest in Hungary

Across Eastern and Central Europe, as unemployment surges and the European Union dithers, nationalist conservative and far right parties are on the march.

Occupying Hawaii: Paradise Lost and Found

Michelle Fawcett

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.

Egyptian Women: Half of Society But Still a Minority

Dina Sadek

Once Mubarak was driven from power, we saw that the “Republic of Tahrir” did not magically change everything. Women have continued to play a vital role in the protests and in many of the new political parties but their participation falls on deaf ears.

Contesting Ivory Tower Housing Solutions for Haiti

Deepa Panchang

Today, with more than 500,000 people still living under sun-scorched tarps two years after the earthquake of January, 2010, the Haitian housing rights movement continues to gain urgency.

Book Review: Prison Blossoms: Anarchist Voices from the American Past

Kristian Williams

Alexander Berkman

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.

Syria: Opportunities and Limits of International Observation Efforts

René Wadlow

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.

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