All Fall Down: But What Rises Up?

Arab Leaders Under Threat

The danger of letting democracy loose in the Middle East, according to the Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/danger-falling-tyrants/8493/

The Bail-Out Debate rumbles On



Irelands bail-out is proving disasterous for economic development 

 Morgan Kelly's pessimistic/realistic view in the Irish Times on Saturday
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0507/1224296372123.html

reaction from John Bruton in disagreement with Kelly

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0510/1224296602550.html?via=mr

Hot Hot Heat

A microcosm of the debate raging within a portion of the scientific community with regards to climate change as Spencer's 'Great Global Warming Blunder' is reviewed

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/04/review-of-spencers-great-global-warming-blunder/

Global warming factors: How both Nature and Mankind damage the environment, but to different extents

http://blog.sustainablog.org/the-top-causes-of-global-warming-natural-or-human/

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/climate-change-deniers-vs-the-consensus/

The People of Latin America Flex Their Muscles

From 'El Machete'

Recent trouble in the Brazilian Amazon, symptomatic of the growing disparity between super rich and super poor in that country

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/brazil-archives-63/3004-rebellion-in-the-brazilian-amazon

Problems continue for Bolivia

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3022-bolivia-the-boomerang-effect-for-morales

Causes for concern in rural Argentina

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/argentina-archives-32/2957-argentina-rural-slavery-at-time-of-record-earnings

Popular backlash against the continuing drug war in Mexico

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/3024-anti-drug-war-movement-emerges-in-mexico

Interview with Benjamin Dangl on the role of social movements as the driving force behind change in Latin America

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/international-archives-60/2998-latin-america-and-the-us-social-movements-are-the-engines-of-change

Pakistan: Friendly Foe?



Pakistan's Military on Patrol 

 The peaks and troughs in US support for Pakistan

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_wright

Motherhood Worldwide



Burqa and Baby

 Report on the state of motherhood and womens rights across the world

http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6748295/k.BE47/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers_2011_Statistics_and_Facts.htm


The 10 worst places to be a mother, according to this STC report

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/06/the_worst_places_to_be_a_mother

United in Suppression

Protests in Syria

Claims that the Iranian Security Forces are aiding the Syrian state  in it's stifling of popular opposition

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/08/iran-helping-syrian-regime-protesters

Money, Money, Money

Information is Beautiful

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-dollar-gram/