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Photograph of Augusto César Sandino, taken between 1927 and 1934

The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution

… “The man who doesn’t ask his country for even a handful of earth for his grave deserves to be heard, and not only to be heard, but to be believed.” —Augusto C. Sandino, “ The Sandino Manifesto ” On July 1, 1927, the … South & Central America … The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution …
One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

… American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the imposing 18th-century … one side by an enormous cathedral. Catholicism blended with African spirituality and the practice of Santeria that arrived in Cuba with the African slave population and became widespread on the …

Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America

… an anti-American populist, called on Latin America to stand-up to what he sees as imperial U.S. policy towards the … nations, eastern Europe, most of Asia, and even parts of Africa. Politicians have been able to capitalize on this … emigration rates to the U.S. in comparison to countries in South America. The increasing salience of immigration policy …
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments

The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments

… us of the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the New York Times  … prisoners, soldiers, prostitutes, psychiatric patients, and children—were enrolled without consent in unethical … more well-known) Tuskegee experiments in which hundreds of African Americans with syphilis were studied without being …
Cover of A History of Iran Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy.

Iran for Beginners

Review of A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, by Michael Axworthy (New York. Basic Books. 2008)
… censorship policies, continuous attempts to enrich uranium, and 2009 elections resulting in mass protests, arrests, and even the murder of several protesters. This current … of the word "Persian," which comes from Fars province in southwestern Iran, home to Iran's most ancient …
Mourning banners hung at the south gate of Beijing university in the aftermath of the 1989 June 4th incident in Beijing

Survivor: the Chinese Communist Party

… crowds marched through the streets of China's cities, demanding an end to official corruption and more political freedom. Inspired by the spectacle of … behaves outrageously, the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea appeal to the Chinese Communists for help, …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… focused substantial efforts to improve  agricultural output and efficiency, especially for small farmers who have … for generations under the Peruvian systems of exploitative land distribution. In the fall of 2021, then President Pedro … sought to boost food production in nations of the Global South with the goal not only of increasing prosperity but …
A scene from the revolution

The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986

… possible. From February 22 to 25, 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue to protest President Ferdinand Marcos and his claim that he had won re-election over … the Marcoses in exchange for an anti-Communist bulwark in Southeast Asia. By the mid-1980s, however, foreign policy …
Northern Alliance Troops in Afghanistan in 2001.

Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire

… terrorist incidents failed to punish the terrorists and certainly did not protect the United States. The United States has concluded that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, al-Qaida, are responsible for the … personnel from North Vietnam to the communist insurgents in South Vietnam. American efforts to cut the trail were …
The film Poster for Captain Phillips (2013)

Contested Waters: Captain Phillips and the Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama

… film Captain Phillips (2013), directed by Paul Greengrass and based upon the 2011 memoir by Richard Phillips, tells … events of 2009—the hijacking of an American cargo ship and the dramatic rescue of its heroic captain. The larger … self-righteous, his ship loaded with food aid for hungry Africans, Phillips instructs his 20-man crew that if boarded …

'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan

… On March 12, 2011, an explosion rocked the towns of Futaba and Okuma in Fukushima, Japan, but few were there to hear … the United States test detonated a hydrogen bomb in the south Pacific, the fallout from which coated a Japanese … and mutated by American hydrogen bomb tests in the South Pacific. Bill Tsutsui, renowned scholar of all things …
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.

A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan

… tallest mountain ranges, the Himalayan, the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram. While Gilgit-Baltistan has been a part of … , the region is not a province nor a self-administered unit and has lacked representational power in the federal … the percentage of children not in school, and the first in South Asia . Rural girls in the country receive an average …
Photo of a nuclear explosion.

The Dawn of the Second Cold War

… will have a missile that can reach the United States and when it does a Second Cold War will begin. The failed … prospect of U.S. nuclear retaliation. They may be suicidal and willing to make "martyrs" not only of themselves but of … Whether the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, accused by South Korea in the 1980s of ordering the bombing of two …
Paul Bremer in 2003.

Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines

… the Philippines provides a clear object lesson in how to handle the Iraqi situation. And that lesson is to do what so many people now urge: stop … because of their suffering under Saddam, the Shiite south and Kurdish north, are treacherous. Just as was the … East Asia & Southeast Asia …
Paul Bremer in 2003.

Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines

… the Philippines provides a clear object lesson in how to handle the Iraqi situation. And that lesson is to do what so many people now urge: stop … because of their suffering under Saddam, the Shiite south and Kurdish north, are treacherous. Just as was the … East Asia & Southeast Asia …
Emperor Hirohito of Japan in 1971.

Playing Fast and Loose with Historical Analogies

… Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s intentions, Secretary of Defense Donald … had conclusive evidence concerning the Russian missiles, and he resisted the advice of the military to use force. … a Shiite majority, a Sunni “Marsh Arab” minority in the south, and a Kurdish minority in the north, not to mention a …
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47

Baseball Without Borders

Review of Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League, by Cesar Brioso (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).
… the historic rivalry between the Almendares Scorpions and the Habana Lions.  Yet intertwined within this tale of … League sneakily poaching players from other franchises, and the Brooklyn Dodgers, utilizing their spring training … leagues were racially integrated, Robinson and other African-Americans would be able to play in freedom (29). …
The Brazilian flag and a soccer ball

Brazil’s Soccer Mania: An Example for the World

… of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1950s and the Chicago Bulls basketball squad in the 1990s. … learn to perform extraordinary athletic feats on sandlots, grassy fields and beaches. The entire nation seems … team? Will the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea become a safer place if the Korean peoples’ …