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Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai to US Congress: "Don't Greet Refugees With Tear Gas"

Malala Yousafzai spoke Thursday at the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership to receive the Gleitsman Award

Many Voices, One Call: 'We Refuse Military Intervention in Iraq'

Sarah Lazare, staff writer

From within Iraq and across the world, opponents condemn push for a new US military campaign in war-tattered nation

Rising Call: No Strikes. No Troops. No War in Iraq.

Andrea Germanos and Sarah Lazare, staff writers

Choosing the same path of military intervention that wrought the current crisis...

Imposing 'No Fly Zone' in Syria Would be 'Act of War' by US

Jon Queally, staff writer, Jon Queally, staff writer

Peace advocates and policy experts say euphemistic term belies reality that...

Sexual Violence Is Not "Collateral Damage"

Report: Alarming Links Between US Aid & Colom

Hunting For The Seeds of Where It All Started

World Food Crisis at Critical Juncture

Argentine Court Convicts Priest of Complicity in 'Dirty War' Deaths

UN Adopts Historic Statement on Native Rights

Facts Belie Petraeus' Case, Say Humanitarian Groups

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La Madre Buena (The Good Mother)

For a five-minute, heart-lifting hiatus from the madness, see this sweet film about a resolute Mexican mother who is clear on our president - "He is the devil" - but who loves her son enough to give him the birthday present he wants. Her epic trek, geographically and politically, features strong women, gorgeous country and the giddy decimation of a piñata just pleading, nay damn near demanding, to be punched.