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Cartoon: Honduran Hypocrisynew

Obama accuses his critics on Honduras. In the past, he says, critics complained that the US replaced democratically-elected leaders in Latin America with dictators. Now that a dictator has supplanted a democratically-elected president in Honduras, the US is refusing to lift a finger. Our new lack of involvement on behalf of a dictator, in other words, marks a departure from our previous involvement on behalf of dictators. Obama: the new Bush of logic.
Maui Time  |  Ted Rall  |  08-13-2009  |  Cartoons

CouchSurfing International Offers Sofa Safe Havensnew

CouchSurfing.org is a networking forum that helps cushion the experience of finding places to stay for next to nothing. And Portland is one of the most active U.S. cities on the site, as members are drawn from all over the world to experience the friendly City of Roses.
Willamette Week  |  Caitlin McCarthy  |  08-05-2009  |  Travel

Llewellyn Werner Thinks Skateparks Could Get Iraq's Economy Rollingnew

Werner has many projects in Iraq, everything from the installation of fiber-optics networks to constructing several large power plants to setting up international distribution for Iraq-grown dates.
Westword  |  Jared Jacang Maher  |  10-06-2008  |  Sports

Skyrocketing Food Prices and Biofuels Aren't What's Feeding Global Hunger Crisisnew

It sounds counterintuitive, I know, but the real food crisis gripping the world these days is not what everyone thinks it is. It's really more about the 80 per cent drop in real-time food prices since 1947 than the modest, dare I say, "market correction" of recent years.
NOW Magazine  |  Wayne Roberts  |  08-04-2008  |  Food+Drink

The Homecoming of a Radio Flyernew

Tamara Wieder's Q&A with BBC correspondent and native Bostonian Jeb Sharp, who is bringing world news home after years of jetting to overseas trouble spots.
Boston Phoenix  |  Tamara Wieder  |  10-22-2004  |  Media

Not Appearing at a Venue Near Younew

Border entry is becoming increasingly difficult for international artists — what, exactly, are we missing?
INDY Week  |  Grayson Currin, olufunke moses, Sylvia Pfeiffenberger and Byron Woods  |  09-16-2004  |  Performance

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