Newsreel: ’67 War and party balloons for Red China
Newsreels declare: US neutral in ’67 War in the Middle East and Red China fears party balloons
Visiting the land of ethnic cleansing
The triumph of Sarajevo: cosmopolitanism survives the nativists’ war
Mubarak on trial: should the past be prosecuted?
Forgetting the past is unacceptable, but so too is shelving it through superficial justice
French diary from WWII
The cramped hand suggests a shortage of paper, the mysterious letters and numbers hint at a code
Salvador Allende and ‘The Battle of Chile’
‘The Battle of Chile’ is one of the greatest records of a revolutionary political moment ever filmed
On Obama’s second big Middle East speech
There has been a revolution in the Arab world but, thus far, no revolution in American thinking
John McCain demolishes the Bush-era torture apologists
Torture didn’t get us Osama bin Laden, but it cost us dearly
Sahrawi refugees photographed by Andrew McConnell
Incredible, luminous figures stand out against landscapes of perpetual night
A Guatemalan’s final video before his murder
Everything in this video is untrue, except a fundamental truth about violence in Guatemalan politics
How the Osama bin Laden news spread on Twitter
It began with a single tweet, not the first with the news but the most trusted
Osama bin Laden killed after 3,519 days of freedom
Osama bin Laden is dead but it is the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions that are killing Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden still free 3,514 days later
What is most astonishing is that there is no public pressure whatsoever to capture him
Another dinosaur nears the end, this time in Yemen
Yemen is a hard place to govern but Ali Abdullah Saleh has done a poor job of it all the same
Malcolm Gladwell’s inexplicable indulgence of an anti-Semite
Was the L’Oréal founder and Nazi collaborator merely a pragmatist, as Gladwell contends?
Reading the Times on the architectural symbolism of Cairo
Much right and a few key things wrong about Tahrir Square in Cairo, the center of the revolution
Little Red Book by Mao Tse-tung, second edition, 1967
The rare second edition of Mao’s famous book, with a foreword by Lin Biao before he fell from grace
The truth about the Egyptian military
In the revolution, Egyptian reverence for the military shamed them into not opening fire. Now what happens?
Libya and the end of the neo-colonial argument
Libyans have asked the international community for help; there’s no colonial aggression in doing it
Reading about Sarkozy and French nativists
French cultural insecurity eviscerates the universalism of the Rights of Man
What is in Gaddafi’s Green Book, Part One
In his infamous Green Book, Gaddafi offers his unorthodox solutions to the problem of democracy
What is in Gaddafi’s Green Book, Part Two
In his infamous Green Book, Gaddafi offers his unorthodox solutions on socialism and society
1957: Israelis protest UN demand to withdraw from the Sinai
In a newsreel after Israel’s 1956 invasion of Egypt, Israelis rally in Tel Aviv against UN demands to withdraw from the Sinai