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Millions are in revolt in Turkey. Although the revolt is called the Gezi Park Resistance, it is no longer about saving trees and parks from the neoliberal capitalist governmental plan of urban renewal. Instead, it is a cry of millions of young people for more freedom and democracy.   This is a...

  President Barack Obama gave a speech at the National Defense University on May 23rd. In the speech he insists he had pushed and will continue to...

Fears and tension are high in South Korea over the recent measures carried out by North Korea. The latest development is North Korea lashing out at its southern neighbor and the United States by insisting it will never agree to discuss denuclearization in the six-party talks (South Korea, Russia, North Korea, China, Japan and the United States) until the entire world,...

As the date of the 2013 general elections in Zimbabwe draws near, political dissidents and MDC-T members supporting current Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai...

On a visit that was supposed to discuss trade with Germany and the Netherlands along with other parts of the European Union, Russia’s President Vladimir...

The United Nations is calling for renewed talks on the international proliferation of arms, both illegal and legal. Almost 193 nation members will be sending...

There has been a flurry of discussion around process in OWS of late. This can only be a good thing. Atrophy and complacency are the death of movements....

Consensus is a group process by which people determine their own ideas and actions. It is the most democratic of all forms of decision-making for it...

Consensus process (the idea that a group must strictly adhere to a protocol where all decisions are unanimous) is the absolute worst idea that has ever...

Cyprus officially upgraded a Palestinian diplomatic mission’s status on its soil to a Palestinian embassy. Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis...