For several years now, transnational food companies have understood that their main growth markets are in the South. To increase their profits they need to…

Cleanup crews trying to mitigate Japan's never-ending radiation crisis at Fukushima ran into more problems recently after sensors monitoring a drainage gutter detected a huge…

A new government report shows that 1 in 9 children in the U.S. (11.6 percent) are using complimentary therapy to stay healthy, an amount that has not…

There is an enormous amount of political debate over various pieces of legislation that are supposed to be massive job killers. For example, Republicans lambasted…

In an unprecedented move, 200 veterans of the Israeli security services accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday of being a “danger” to Israel. The…

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 2 2015 (IPS) - Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, triggered…

Speaking last week in Pretoria, former UK Environment Minister Owen Paterson described critics of GMOs as comprising part of a privileged class that increasingly fetishizes…

When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, which started in earnest just about one year ago with the violent coup that overthrew then president…

Obama bears full responsibility for replacing Ukraine’s democratically elected government with Nazi lunatics. Russia’s lower house State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin said “(t)he guilt of…

Recently, I was dumped. It seemed to come out of nowhere. As far as I knew, everything was fine, and I honestly had no reason…

With fire-breathing religion figuring anew in global conflicts, and political discussions at home often dominated by the nuttery of the Christian right, you might get…

Tariq Ali is part of the royalty of the left. His more than 20 books on politics and history, his seven novels, his screenplays and…