The Andes

Colombia: agrarian strike re-mobilizes

Colombian campesinos launched a new national strike, blocking key roads across several regions of the country to press demands including debt relief.

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Kurdish-Berber solidarity

Kawa Botani, a Kurdish activist from Duhok, Iraq, joined Amazigh (Berber) protests in Morocco in January, demanding cultural and civil rights. United by a common struggle against both political Islam and "Arabization," the Berbers of Algeria, Morocco and Libya are increasingly… Read moreKurdish-Berber solidarity

Central America

Central America: ‘narco-deforestation’?

Central America's rainforests are being destroyed by drug traffickers who cut roads and airstirps on officially protected lands, according to a paper in the journal Science.

Inner Asia

US plays Mongolia card against China

Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel signed a "joint vision" statement with Mongolia calling for expanded military cooperation—clearly aimed at further encirclement of China.

East Asia

Wildcat strikes surge in China —again

Some 10,000 workers at plants that produce sportswear for Nike and Adidas have walked off the job in Dongguan after finding the Taiwanese company was shorting them.

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Taiwan’s alternative future

The unprecedented 24-day occupation of Taiwan's legislative chamber by student protesters was ostensibly to demand procedural transparency in the passage of a free trade deal with China. But the Sunflower Movement actually touches on questions of Taiwan's sovereignty, and whether… Read moreTaiwan’s alternative future