Foreign Policy Public Health Blog

Still the People’s Republic of Rumors

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE As my FP colleague Isaac Stone Fish, Bloomberg View's Adam Minter, and others have very ably documented, China's microblogs have been buzzing all week with rumors - unsubstantiated -- of a political...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 7:49 AM by FP Passport

Change has come to the British National Party

In what will probably qualify as the year's least exciting civil rights victory, the far-right British National Party has agreed to admit nonwhite members nearly three decades after its founding: A government-backed rights body took it to court, claiming...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2009 7:38 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Britain, Race/Ethnicity

How the world views the 1 percent

Despite the heated rhetoric over inequality in the United States and elsewhere, today more people on average believe that the rich "deserve their wealth," according to a 23-country survey released by Globe Scan last week. The survey, which asked...

Published Thu, Jul 12 2012 10:09 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Latin America, Financial crisis, East Asia, South Asia, Economics

Chinese official: Beijing isn't Cairo

In 2008, Yu Keping, the head of China's Central Compilation and Translation Bureau and a professor at Peking University, published an attention-grabbing collection of essays called Democracy is a Good Thing . Coming from a Chinese Communist Party...

Published Tue, May 10 2011 4:42 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Diplomacy, East Asia, China, Freedom, Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy, State Department, Egypt, Democracy

Children on the frontlines of Somalia’s famine

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE While an increasingly devastating famine continues to drive Somalis from their homes, many families are citing another reason for leaving: the forced recruitment of child soldiers . A recent Amnesty International...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2011 1:47 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Human Rights, Freedom, International Organizations

In Finland, Tax Day Is the Best Day

Chávez Rides Again - Michael Albertus

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Make no mistake: Hugo Chávez's victory in Sunday's election marks another step in the erosion of Venezuela's democratic institutions. Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 09 2012 3:13 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Elections, South America, Food/Agriculture, Economics, Oil, Default, Free, Web Exclusive, Democracy, Argument, Democracy Lab, Democracy Lab Top Story

The best videos of the Chelyabinsk meteor

This morning, Russians in Chelyabinsk, an industrial city 950 miles east of Moscow, were jolted awake when a meteor exploded in the sky, producing shockwaves that shattered windows, set off car alarms, and injured at least 500 people. The meteor was traveling...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2013 7:58 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Russia, Environment, Eastern Europe, Cool

What foreign-policy issues were we debating four years ago?

To put the agenda for tonight's foreign-policy debate topics in some context, it's helpful to go back to a time before the Arab Spring, the European debt crisis, and the death of Osama bin Laden. When Barack Obama and John McCain met for their...

Published Mon, Oct 22 2012 1:25 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012

Lyudmila, we hardly knew ya -- no really

She's been one of the world's most elusive first ladies -- let's just say no one ever called her the "Russian Michelle Obama" -- and after today, she'll be a public figure no longer. On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2013 3:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia, Eastern Europe, Women

Soccer star Lionel Messi accused of tax fraud

On Wednesday, Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, were formally accused of tax fraud worth €4 million ($5.3 million) by the Spanish Inquisition public prosecutors in Barcelona. El País reports: [The charges] relate...

Published Wed, Jun 12 2013 5:40 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Latin America, Celebs, Sports, Spain

Even Yemeni Government Spokesman Finds Foiled Plot Hard to Believe

Even the spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington, D.C. is having a hard time believing a plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that the Yemeni government says it foiled. Several news agencies -- including the BBC , the New York Times , and...

Published Wed, Aug 07 2013 2:59 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, al Qaeda, Security, Middle East, Intelligence, International Relations, Yemen

Video: Georgian gay rights activists attacked by mob on International Day Against Homophobia

On Friday, chaotic clashes broke out in Georgia as an angry mob -- comprised mainly of young men but also including robed priests and some women -- descended on a gay rights rally commemorating International Day Against Homophobia. A day earlier, the...

Published Fri, May 17 2013 10:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Freedom, Politics, Caucasus

Obama's Copenhagen Speech

The prepared text of U.S. President Barack Obama's address at the Morning Plenary Session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Oslo, Norway. Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 9:09 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Default, Free, Document, Web Exclusive

The Craziest Detail About the CIA's 1953 Coup in Iran

For most people, the name "Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf" evokes the image of "Stormin' Norman," the U.S. Army general who oversaw Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm as commander of the military's Central Command from 1988...

Published Tue, Aug 20 2013 10:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, History, Intelligence, U.S. Foreign Policy, Military, International Relations, National Security