Africa
Kenyans and Ethiopians welcome Obama with open arms
August 7, 2015Obama's Kenyan paternal family background made his presence in the country as much a homecoming as a state visit.
Read moreBenghazi & Hillary: missing the story
July 13, 2015The congressional harrying of Clinton over emails concerning the 2012 death of a U.S. ambassador and three staff members in Benghazi has become a running joke.
Read moreToward a new foreign policy
June 24, 2015U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, and deeply out of sync with real global challenges - is continuous war inevitable, or can we change course?
Read moreKenya’s sorrow: the U.S. connection
April 29, 2015Absent from most of the mainstream American media was an examination of exactly what role the U.S. has played in Somalia over the past decade.
Read moreAfrica conference pushes corporate interests
August 7, 2014Although we read that Africa is making great strides, most of its countries, particularly those South of the Sahara, are still at the bottom of any measures of human wellbeing.
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