AltWeeklies Wire
The Dirty Fight for Farmland in Latin Americanew

Even though much of the world's food supply still comes from small farmers, those same farmers from Honduras to the Philippines increasingly cannot feed their own families, and they're fighting for survival.
City Newspaper |
Tim Louis Macaluso |
10-02-2015 |
International
OC to China: We Want Your Pregnant!new

You Win Yankee Vacation Baby Today!
OC Weekly |
Charles Lam |
05-28-2015 |
International
Bloody Tide: How Puerto Rico Affects the U.S.new

As Puerto Rico is battered by a wave of drugs and brazen murders, Houston and other continental U.S. cities feel the blowback.
Houston Press |
Casey Michel and Michael E. Miller |
03-21-2013 |
International
What Happened in Gazanew

Parents of deceased activist Rachel Corrie to keynote Israeli Apartheid Week.
VUE Weekly |
Rebecca Medel |
02-28-2013 |
International
Tags: Rachel Corrie
Inside Kurdish Syrianew

A journalist goes inside a little known revolution.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Kevin McKiernan |
12-14-2012 |
International
Al-Shabaab cases takes a turnnew

Four Somali men hope testimony collected in East Africa will prove they didn’t send money to a terrorist group.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
09-19-2012 |
International
Tags: government
An Old Truth Made New Againnew

How many people assassinated Mexican presidential hopeful Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta in 1994?
San Diego Reader |
Bill Manson |
08-08-2012 |
International
Mexicans Pay in Blood for U.S. War on Drugsnew

A highly personal tale of the devastation as illuminated by the trail of murdered Mexican journalists.
Phoenix New Times |
Charles Bowden and Molly Molloy |
07-27-2012 |
International
Tags: War on Drugs, Mexico
China’s Impending Crashnew

China is on an unsustainable spending spree.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Gwynne Dyer |
03-16-2012 |
International
We Need to Talk About Kony 2012new

Some things to consider before you donate.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
03-08-2012 |
International
The Deadliest Place In Mexiconew

Who's killing the people of the Juarez Valley?
The Texas Observer |
Melissa del Bosque |
03-02-2012 |
International
Tags: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Drug War
Border Fence Blocks Access to Important Historical Sitenew

Border Monument 258 can no longer be accessed from the U.S. side.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan |
12-22-2011 |
International
Progress Report: The Arab Autumnnew

The long march for change continues in the Middle East.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Gwynne Dyer |
11-30-2011 |
International
No Safe Placenew

Mexicans flee organized crime but find little sanctuary.
The Texas Observer |
Melissa del Bosque |
11-01-2011 |
International
Security and Spendingnew

Is the border out of control — or just a political haymaker?
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
10-27-2011 |
International