In 2011 Venezuela still gets a certain kind of press coverage by many in the mainstream media, as it has ever since President Hugo Chavez was elected. For the past few years, Eva Golinger has been taking a close look at how this reporting is done and who is...
"You want it to be one way..." as the character Marlo Stanfield once put it. When we look out at the world or when we look to our various sources of information about what is happening to ourselves and to others, we seek explanations. Explanations into how and why,...
Emmanuel and Kyle of 2600 are experienced world travelers who specialize in going where other people never want or think to. Last year they set off to travel though ALL the former Yugoslav states (and Albania). From trains to buses to taxi's in the middle of nowhere, their trip...
Friends around the world have been writing to me, urging me to cover the issue of the demonstrations and now revolution in Tunisia for some weeks now. I've responded that I'm watching it all unfold like everyone else; in mainstream media, on twitter, on activist blogs in and around...
When looking critically at changes in democracy and politics around the world, much has been said about the personalization of politics. In many countries, where politics may have once been about the policies of a party and choosing between those parties at the ballot box, today it is increasingly...
