The war at home
A new documentary investigates why the U.S. invaded Iraq Jay Walljasper | May 2006 Read More...
The whole world is blogging!
The great promise of this democratic tool depends on participation by all people Jay Walljasper | May 2006 issue “I have no interest in being anti-establishment,” proclaims Matt Stoller, a leading progressive blogger on at the popular U.S. web site MyDD.com. “We’re going to be the Read More...
The Disunited States of America
Looking a half-century into the future, a maverick businessman warns that America may fall apart as a nation. He believes the U.S. can avoid this fate--but that it will require some radical steps right now.Jurriaan Kamp | March 2006 issue In 1950 the United Nations had 50 members. Today there are Read More...
Gulag Pyongyang
New graphic novel paints daily life under North Korea's dictatorship Marco Visscher | March 2006 Read More...
Beware of the white man
Filmmaker Michael Moore is certain that most of the world's problems are caused by whites: 'Every time I see a white man coming towards me, I get nervous.'Michael Moore | June 2003 issue I don’t know what it is, but every time I see a white guy walking toward me, I tense up. My heart starts Read More...
An unlikely hero
Risking her life, Mukhtar Mai envisions a better future for womenKim Ridley | March 2006 issue Mukhtar Mai has transformed personal trauma into a global wake-up call for women’s rights in Pakistan. After surviving a gang rape ordered by the local tribal council to punish her family for an offense Read More...
How to create a real ownership society
As George W. Bush promotes his corporate-controlled vision of an "ownership society," other observers explore what a true ownership society would look like.Jonathan Rowe | March 2006 issue Last year, when U.S. President George W. Bush declared the “ownership society” the theme for his second Read More...
How Africa developed the West
Without Africa's wealth and resources, the West would not have prospered. A conversation on the Western debt to Africa.Marco Visscher | March 2006 issue In the late 17th century when Dutch traders returned home from Africa and described their impressions of a region of Africa in what is now Read More...
Some rights reserved
The rising stinginess of intellectual property rights has sparked a creative response: open source.Tijn Touber | March 2006 issue It is time to abolish copyright: It is a threat to human rights. So argues Joost Smiers in his book Arts Under Pressure: Promoting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Read More...
The co-operative revolution
The rising stinginess of intellectual property rights has sparked a creative response: open source. Tijn Touber | March 2006 issue Over the past decade we have seen a period of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity but also depressing levels of human need and extreme suffering. In the 21st Read More...