News and Views: August 2007
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- Is George Bush Restarting Latin America's 'Dirty Wars'? (Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet)
- Shiite's Tale: How Gulf With Sunnis Widened (Damien Cave, New York Times)
- Death at a Distance: The U.S. Air War (Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Rigoberta Menchú Running for the Long Term (Inés Benítez, IPS News)
- Iran activists confident over women's rights petition (AFP)
- Iraq: People flee Baghdad district as gunmen impose Shariah law (IRIN News)
- Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies (Margalit Fox, New York Times)
- Mutiny Shakes U.S. Food Aid Industry (Ellen Massey, Inter Press Service)
- Nicaragua: 'Invisible' Victims of Pesticide Protest Government Neglect (José Adán Silva, Inter Press Service )
- Peru Quake Victims Face Uncertain Future (Frank Bajak, Newsday)
- Kenya: Legislation to Get More Women in Parliament - the Next Chapter (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- The Sole Superpower in Decline, The Rise of a Multipolar World (Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch.com)
- Starving Gaza (Chris Hedges, Truthdig)
- Toll Climbs in Peru; Areas Lack Water and Power (Simon Romero, New York Times)
- CARE Turns Down Federal Funds for Food Aid (Celia W. Dugger, New York Times)
- Afghanistan: Women Defy Tradition, Run Shops in Mazar Town (Tahir Qadiry, Inter Press Service)
- A spooky look at the CIA (Randy Dotinga, Christian Science Monitor)
- Guatemala: Labour Rights Mean Little in Maquila Factories (Inés Benítez, Inter Press Service)
- Iraq: Violence taking toll on pregnant mothers, infants (IRIN News)
- Sex for survival (Afif Sarhan, Al-Jazeera English)
- Cuba: Black Women Rap Against Discrimination (Dalia Acosta, Inter Press Service)
- Latin America: Indigenous, Black Women Face 'Triple Glass Ceiling' (Kintto Lucas, Inter Press Service)
- Learning to Love the Farm Bill (Matthew Blake, The Nation)
- Iraq: Militants using water to extort "favours" from displaced (IRIN News)
