by Lucine Kasbarian, Counter Currents, India - Recent articles in the mainstream media would have us believe that governments around the world somehow question the factuality of the 1915 Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides committed by Turkey.

by Rachel Schneller, The Jamestown Foundation, USA - The massive upheaval of Iraq’s population that has occurred since 2006 threatens the long-term stability of the country, regardless of short-term gains achieved through the political process or military surges.

by Frida Berrigan, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Operation New Dawn. That is the name the U.S. military will give its operations in Iraq when U.S. military operations in that country end this September.

by Megan Tady, Save The Internet, USA - The “digital divide” sounds so faceless, so placeless. Who are these supposed people without an Internet connection in today’s day-and-age?

by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Counter Currents, India - “Going local” may be the single most effective thing we can do.

by Emily Stokes, Open Democracy, UK - On Tuesday, Saw Mar – who has lived in the US for the past decade – was one of twelve Burmese women to testify at the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma held in New York, a event organised by the Nobel Women’s Initiative and the Women’s League of Burma.

by Michelle Alexander, Tom Dispatch, USA - How the War on Drugs gave birth to a permanent american undercaste.

by Sokari Ekine, Pambazuka, Kenya - Urgency is required at this very moment as the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is pending before the Ugandan parliament.

by Mary Ndlovu, Pambazuka, Kenya - The prospect is for continued poverty, a stuttering economy, a dysfunctional civil service, violence and even chaos. All of which benefit the power elite of the former ruling party.

by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world.

by Elena Godlevskaya, Open Democracy Russia, UK - In 2004, some local journalists in Oryol founded an independent newspaper ‘for those who want the truth’. Although it sold well, members of staff were subject to threats, bribes, attacks and arson. Still, it lasted four years.

by Beverly Bell, Common Dreams, USA - According to Haitian peasant organizations, at the core of the solutions is a commitment on the part of the government to support family agriculture, with policies to make the commitment a reality.

by Reneé Feltz, Investigative Fund, USA - The Supreme Court's Atkins decision struck down executions of the mentally retarded. But dozens of mentally disabled men remain on death row in Texas, with few avenues for appeal.

by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Counter Currents, India - Should the countries of the South have the right to increase their emissions as they industrialize and ‘develop’?

by Kulani Jalata, Gadaa, Ethiopia - Understanding the politics of malnutrition in Oromia and Ethiopia.

by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka, Kenya - As the G20 spends its time creating a carbon trade market that does little to reduce carbon emissions, multinationals continue to expand their extractive enterprises, dictators continue to siphon off capital, financial firms continue to cash in on pollution and this illicit capital continues to be laundered through offshore locations that are themselves threatened by the rising waters associated with global warming.

by Ruth Marcus, Truthdig, USA - In an era of stop-loss recalls because forces have been stretched so thin, thousands of service members have been discharged because of their sexuality.

by Angela Bonavoglia, Women's Media Center, USA - At a “first-ever” conference on what they hope is a growing field, surgeons showed an appalling indifference to how women experience sexual pleasure.

by Kari Lydersen, Onearth, USA - Summer sea ice is melting in the Arctic, exposing for the first time the fabled Northwest Passage that Europeans sought for centuries.

by Diana Francis, Open Democracy, UK - Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and impact of war are equally gendered.

by Valeria Fernández, New America Media, USA - In a small meeting room at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, dozens of people listened eagerly one day recently as facilitator Vel Piña told them in Spanish, “You don’t have to answer questions about your immigration status.”

by Claudia Rowe, Facing South, USA - Despite $500 million set aside to create "green jobs" for disadvantaged workers - including a program titled "Pathways Out of Poverty" - there is no method in place to monitor exactly where Recovery Act dollars have landed on the ground, and few requirements to ensure that low-income communities benefit.

by Frida Berrigan, Tom Dispatch, USA - In 2008, according to an authoritative report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), $55.2 billion in weapons deals were concluded worldwide. Of that total, the United States was responsible for $37.8 billion in weapons sales agreements, or 68.4% of the total “trade.”

by Rosa Martha Villarreal, Mexidata, USA - Can there be a humane solution that does not disrupt those portions of the economy dependent on migrant labor and does not traumatize families?

by Paige Kollock, Now Lebanon, Lebanon - After several weeks of saber rattling between both Washington and Tehran, Iran has once again decided to play tough, announcing over the weekend that it would raise its uranium enrichment levels from 3.5 to 20 percent, inching closer to the 90 percent enrichment needed to make a nuclear weapon.

by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Ciudad Juarez now holds the world record in homicides per capita. This border city of two million is the frontline of one of the most violent and most ill-conceived war of our times — the war on drugs.

by Anne Bartlett, Sudan Tribune, France - Recent months have witnessed an attempt to shift attention away from Darfur, yet the situation in the West of Sudan is anything but quiet.

by Mariam Hamed, Palestine Note, Palestine - Don't be surprised if one day you find a crying infant thrown in front of a children's hospital, left by a sidewalk, or a trash can in the streets of Gaza. It is an "infant of unknown parentage."

by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka, Kenya - Will a new concession with China enable the Congolese to ‘really feel what all that copper, cobalt and nickel is good for’, as President Joseph Kabila says, or will the country continue to be seen as ‘a resource-rich bargain bin, open for business’?

by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - “I wish President Obama would listen carefully to Martin Luther King... he ought to think before he sends missiles over Pakistan, before he agrees to this bloated military budget, before he sends troops to Afghanistan, before he opposes the single-payer system."

by Maude Barlow, On The Commons, USA - If we are to successfully address climate change, it is time to include an analysis of how our abuse of water is an additional factor in the creation of global warming as well as solutions that protect water and watersheds.

by Sandra Nyaira, VOA, USA - “Tobacco to Zimbabwe was like what probably gold was to South Africa – if Johannesburg was created through the Witvatersrand gold fields then Harare was definitely created by the growing of tobacco.”

by Sahar Sepehri, Mianeh, UK - Iranian women’s groups and other rights organisations are fighting a much discussed proposed law which they say would encourage polygamy by allowing a man to take a second wife without the permission of the first in certain circumstances.

by Aubrey Ann Parker, Circle of Blue, USA - Numerous groups, such as the Khapi community in Bolivia and the Tagalog in the Philippines, banded together in Copenhagen to explain at a number of meetings and public events how climate change is already threatening their access to food and water

by Carolina Gottardo and Maria Eugenia Rojas, Open Democracy, UK - Dr Ana Maria Encina’s election earlier this month as mayor of Santa Cruz is a sign that Bolivian women are not going to be deterred by the increasing levels of violence directed at them as they run for public office.

by Katharine McGregor, Inside Indonesia, Australia - The exhumation of mass graves from 1965-66 is a fraught and dangerous business.

by Kate Michelman, Amplify, USA - On this anniversary of Roe, in the context of the extraordinary election of President Obama, America stands at the brink; but we have not yet crossed it.

by Margi Prideaux, Open Democracy, UK - The bedrock of our assumptions about human preeminence is shifting as scientists and philosophers explore the social complexity and intelligence of other species.

by Rebecca Solnit, Tom Dispatch, USA - Soon after almost every disaster the crimes begin: ruthless, selfish, indifferent to human suffering, and generating far more suffering.

by Naomi Klein, Op-Ed News, USA - Though the Bush clan was often ridiculed for its incompetence, the process of auctioning off the state, leaving behind only a shell -- or a brand -- was approached with tremendous focus and precision.

by Cynthia McKinney, OpEd News, USA - President Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers.

by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka News, Kenya - Niger exports enough uranium to France to generate 80 per cent of the latter’s electricity supply. But ordinary Nigerians reap little benefit from France’s control of their country’s uranium resources.

by Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - A strengthened Yemeni military will not reverse Yemen’s legacy of anti-Americanism and the support for anti-U.S. violence that sometimes accompanies it.

by Frida Berrigan, Common Dreams, USA - The first 20 detainees arrived at Guantánamo's Camp X-Ray eight years ago, on January 11, 2002. Just over seven years later, President Barack Obama-on his second full day after taking office-issued an order to shut the prison within a year.

by Hiwot Teka, SciDev Net, UK - Climate and health experts must collaborate to fight climate-sensitive disease. Ethiopia is leading the way.

by Silvia Cattori, Voltaire Net, Lebanon - Hedy Epstein speaks with a gentle and mild voice about her last travel to Palestine after a moving visit to one of several concentration camps to which her parents had been deported.-

by Sharmeen Gangat, The Women's Media Center, USA - Women from a country in the news for its dysfunction and poverty are reaching out to grasp economic opportunities in their new U.S. home, even as they stay true to traditional roots.

by Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network, USA - The hijacking of abortion rights as a bargaining chip for the provision of health care is morally reprehensible and if it stands will result in significant harms to women’s health.

by Cathy Majtenyi, VOA, Kenya - Over the past few years, the country has seen a proliferation of so-called "lifestyle diseases" such as diabetes, heart disease and cancers. Experts attribute this to rising incomes, Western diets and less physical activity.

by Marjorie Cohn, OpEd News, USA - Those who conspired to hijack airplanes and kill thousands of people on 9/11 are guilty of crimes against humanity. But retaliation by invading Afghanistan was not the answer. It has lead to growing U.S. and Afghan casualties, and has incurred even more hatred against the United States.