The Andean Connection: Tracking the Drug War’s Coca Leaves and Failed Policies
Cocaine, the drug fueling the trade that’s left thousands dead in Mexico and Central America since 2007 and which…
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Cocaine, the drug fueling the trade that’s left thousands dead in Mexico and Central America since 2007 and which…
Hondurans Pay the Price for Failed War
By the squeezing the illicit drug trade from below in Colombia and above in Mexico, U.S. policy has caused…
Weary of Death, Mexico Searches for Renewal
MEXICO — The scale and cost of America’s failed war on drugs is painfully evident to Mexicans as the…
Delayed Defiance: The New Geography of Liberation
Muammar Gaddafi’s defiant speech on Feb. 22, refusing to relinquish power even after his army massacred Libyans in their…
Cracks Appear in the Gaza Blockade
The popular revolution that ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak has focused renewed attention on Egypt’s role in the blockade…
Editor’s Note: As The Indypendent went to press, 1,000 troops from Saudi Arabia entered Bahrain at the request of…
As millions of Arabs stir their respective countries with demonstrations and slogans of change and transition, certain Arab states…
Revolutions in the Information Age
RABAT, MOROCCO— Facebook and cell phone text messages helped Tunisia’s youth organize an unprecedented revolution, which led to the…
In Israel’s view the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions are bad, very bad. Educated Arabs, not all dressed as “Islamists,”…
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan professor of history and professor of Middle Eastern history at Stanford University.…