Beth Fredrick, AlterNet. April 7, 2008. The President's AIDS policy may be well-intentioned, but it fails to provide comprehensive and compassionate care for the people who need it.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Election 2008. March 27, 2008. Clearly it’s nonsense to suggest that black individual Americans are sort of faced with this existential choice—here or Africa?
Daniel Volman, Beth Tuckey, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 2, 2008. The Pentagon's new AFRICOM is all about securing oil resources, countering terrorism, and rolling back Chinese influence.
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. March 1, 2008. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has fomented no less than fourteen wars in Africa -- enough is enough.
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. February 21, 2008. Civil wars in West Africa are officially "over," but horrific violence against women continues unbated -- and is growing increasingly worse.
Walter Brasch, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. February 19, 2008. George Bush is in Africa this week looking for a few friendly faces. He’s sure not seeing many here at home.
Kim Larsen, OnEarth Magazine. February 1, 2008. In Africa, where malaria kills a million children a year, some are advocating the return of DDT. Are they right?
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. January 5, 2008. From China's investment in Africa to the rise of the left in Latin America. A look at what's happened in the world when we weren't paying attention.
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. November 29, 2007. As the "Save Darfur" lobby grows in power, here are ten reasons to be more critical about the supposedly humanitarian mission.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 15, 2007. Florence Machio: In sub-Saharan Africa chances of dying out of pregnancy are 1 in 17, while in high-income countries the chances are 1 in 4,000.
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. June 4, 2007. Corporate foundations that have pledged millions believe that genetically altered crops will rescue Africa from endemic shortfalls in food production. Are they creating a 'green revolution' or hijacking the food supply?
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2007. Naina Dhingra: After studying Bush's AIDS relief policy, Advocates for Youth report that its incredibly insufficient.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2007. Tamar Adams: The Bush Administration promised billions for Africa to fight AIDS with a caveat, they had to promote abstinence with it.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. May 15, 2007. To get the billions in AIDS money promised by the U.S. countries like Uganda must indoctrinate its young people in abstinence-only rhetoric.
Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com. May 14, 2007. The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. May 9, 2007. The work of journalist Anthony Mitchell, who was just killed in Kenya, revealed the need for our exchange with Africa to involve more than oil, guns and secret prisons.
Adam Elkus, ColorLines. May 2, 2007. Are the efforts of well-meaning celebrities to alleviate Africa's poverty and disease the continent's salvation or a recipe for disaster?
Shane Bauer, E Magazine. March 12, 2007. As refugees from Darfur pour into Chad, the fragile ecosystem buckles beneath the extra load, raising tension and desperation.
Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. December 29, 2006. When industrialized countries use monoculture tree plantations in the developing world to offset carbon pollution they are doing more harm than good. Fortunately, there is a more sustainable alternative.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. December 26, 2006. In a recent interview Bush said that he was reading "King Leopold's Ghost." What exactly did he learn from a book about a foreign occupier using violence to "liberate" the occupied and establish "free trade"?
Elizabeth Bast, Roxanne Lawson, TomPaine.com. December 6, 2006. The African continent is already straining from the effects of global climate change, while some of the world's biggest polluters -- the U.S., Australia, and Canada -- are doing nothing to help clean up their own mess.
Geoffrey Lean, The Independent UK. November 24, 2006. The continent burning into a desert Nowhere is the effect of global warming more dangerous than in Somalia, where the worst drought in 40 years is affecting the lives of 1.8 million people.
