Satire by Shawn Goodwin Former President and three-time X-Games snowboarding champion Jimmy Carter has come under fire this week after meeting with the Palestinian militant organization Hamas. Carter, in an obvious attempt to erase four years of Presidential malaise, has made an effort to undermine...

Jeffrey Breinholt Here is something you do not often hear: countries that have joined the UN Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Financing (sponsored by France) have an obligation under international law to prosecute terrorist financing they uncover in their territories. That means that ever...

Filed under: Activism, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America As I mentioned on Thursday, I attended the State of the Planet conference, hosted by The Earth Institute and The Economist magazine at Columbia University in New York. I will try to give you some tidbits of information from the conference wi...

Zimbabwe Election Results Still Unknown (CNN) — Despite increasing calls from the international community to release election results, Zimbabwe has yet to provide any data on the presidential race three days after voters went to the polls.   The Zimbabwean public is hungry for information...

BBC NEWS | Africa | Liberians stand up to be counted Liberians stand up to be counted There has been a vigorous census campaign Liberia is conducting its first census since 1984, after years of civil war, and a public holiday has been declared.Public adverts and pop songs have been reminding people ...

The title of this article says it all: "Will 'grand coalition' end Kenya's woes?" The news was that the government and opposition were close to some sort of power-sharing deal. Not so fast. The Kenyan government is angry with negotiator and former UN head Kofi Annan, saying that they never discussed...

I was wondering why you, gentle American reader, are so worried about the Primaries. Here and there, I read about people arguing how wonderful it would be to have a (fill in the blank with your choice): a woman, a minority representative, a conqueror of the world, a fat and disgusting capitalist pig...

UNITED NATIONS -- Robert M. Appleton, a senior U.N. crime fighter, has pursued corruption from New Delhi to Manhattan's swank W Hotel, where two U.N. officials wound down a $6,000 night of drinking, strip clubs and prostitutes, courtesy of a corrupt executive seeking to do business with the Unite......