While the magnitude of the earthquake that hit Haiti was extreme, the worst in the region in 200 years, what heavily contributed to the devastation of the quake was the...
25-year-old Natalie was buried for seven days in Port au Prince amongst rubble from the Haitian earthquake. She survived after local and international Search and Rescue teams worked for 12...
The earthquake in Haiti was catastrophic for all Haitians, and the United Nations suffered, too. The headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was destroyed, burying hundreds...
In the late afternoon of January 12th, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the small the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing an estimated 300,000 people, and affecting one third of the...
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, calls for more funding directed to the UN Millennium Development Goals that benefit women. He emphasizes the importance of providing...
Journalists Jamal Dajani and David Michaelis, Palestinian and Jewish natives of Jerusalem respectively, met eight years ago in the United States while employed at Link TV. This interview with host...
Joel Schalit, author of "Israel vs. Utopia," expresses pessimism about current prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians in this Link TV phone interview. He also provides insight into the...
Jamal Dajani, David Michaelis, and Joel Schalit discuss the difference between the contentious word apartheid and the more accepted concept of occupation, and how Israelis and Jews around the world...
Link's David Michaelis outlines the reasons why the release of the Goldstone Report, critical of Israel's actions during the 2008-2009 Gaza War, was such a turning point for Western and...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: March 8, 2010) Violence between Christians and Muslims has broken out again in Nigeria, and up to 500 people are believed to have been killed...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: March 4, 2010) Three days before Iraq's main parliamentary election day, violent attacks targeted early voters at Baghdad's polling stations. Chilean president Michelle Bachelet...
In the 1960s, Berkeley was the center of a national movement for change. It was a time when many believed they could remake the world order. What have we learned...
In January New York City hosted GlobalFEST, a one-night world music extravaganza. We dip in on Vietnamese jazz guitarist Nguyen Le and his new aggregate, Saiyuki. While Le and Indian...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: March 2, 2010) Troops have been called in to secure Chile's quake zone, while coastal communities have been flooded by waves caused by the quake...