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Security Hysteria is Feeding the Fight for Food in Haitinew

Ostensibly, the primary problem at the epicenter of the earthquake area is the threat of confrontation between hungry crowds and aid givers. That’s why the U.S. military is now busy securing the country. But locals gathered in front of the mayor’s office on day nine have a different analysis.

NOW Magazine | Tim Schwartz | 01-29-2010 | International

Tags: U.S. State Department, USAID, Haiti, earthquake

How Canada Got Caught in an Afghan Election That Doesn't Add Upnew

The news on the Afghan election, backed so earnestly by Canada and its $35 million contribution, has gone from terrible to tragic.

NOW Magazine | Paul Weinberg | 10-16-2009 | International

Tags: Hamid Karzai, Canada, Afghanistan, elections, international, war & peace

The Cuban Revolution at 50new

I have learned one thing from my various visits to Cuba over the years, and that is not to predict the demise of the regime. Nevertheless, change may be lurking around the corner at last, for Barack Obama represents the greatest danger that the regime has faced since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of its subsidies seventeen years ago.

NOW Magazine | Gwynne Dyer | 01-09-2009 | International

Tags: Barack Obama, Cuba, Fidel Castro, international, socialism, Raul Castro

The Old Thailand Returnsnew

The political crisis in Thailand is over, and so is the ten-year experiment with democracy. The rich and the comfortably off have risen in outraged revolt against equal treatment for the poor, and it's back to the bad old days of shaky coalitions and bought-and-paid-for politicians.

NOW Magazine | Gwynne Dyer | 12-22-2008 | International

Tags: politics, international, Thailand, People Power Party, People's Alliance for Democracy

Iraq's Democracy is on Shaky Foundationsnew

Iraq really does have a kind of democracy now, even if the price was very high. But it is a democracy built on shaky foundations, and one of the shakiest bits is the relationship with the United States.

NOW Magazine | Gwynne Dyer | 10-27-2008 | International

Tags: Iraq, foreign policy, democracy, war & peace, troop withdrawal

Fired Up On the Shanghai Sizzlenew

This delicious chaos of city that's turned Mao into Mickey Mouse and trains into bullets leaves Beijing -- and Toronto -- in its dust.

NOW Magazine | Michael Hollett | 08-25-2008 | International

Tags: China, Olympics, travel, Beijing, Shanghai, international

Iran Calls U.S.'s Bluff on Attacknew

This explains the bravado of Iran's little propaganda show on July 9, when it test-launched a number of ballistic missiles, including one that has the ability to carry a nuclear weapon and the range to strike Israel. This elicited the usual veiled threats of an attack on Iran from both Washington and Jerusalem, but the Iranians don't believe them any more.

NOW Magazine | Gwynne Dyer | 07-21-2008 | International

Tags: Iran, foreign policy, Israel, nuclear weapons, international

U.S.-Iraq: The Treaty That Isn'tnew

Patrick Cockburn published two leaked reports about the terms of the "alliance" and the tactics that the Bush administration is using to get the Iraqi government's approval by the end of July. Nobody denied them, but hardly any mainstream outlet in the U.S. media reported them as a major story, either.

NOW Magazine | Gwynne Dyer | 06-16-2008 | International

Tags: Bush administration, Iraq, international, war & peace, Nouri al-Maliki, treaty