The Algerian Civil War helped sow the seeds for the Arab Spring.
Former Algerian Defense Minister’s Indictment for War Crimes in Switzerland (Part 2)
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Human Rights
Freedom and Bondage in North Korea
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea is a DC-based nonprofit that studies these issues in gripping detail. I spoke recently with David Hawk, a lead researcher for the Committee, about North Korean camps, defectors, and the networks of merchants and sympathizers who operate in the shadows.
Leave It to Bibi
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu thinks an attack on Iran will be a cakewalk — just like Cheney and Rumsfeld thought Iraq would be.
Oak Ridge Activists Challenge Disarmament Advocates to Step up Their Games
Transform Now Plowshares demands that the disarmament movement puts its money where its mouth is.
Hunger Striking for Labor Rights in Colombia
Minutes before he started to sew his mouth shut, Jorge Alberto Parra Andrade explained his rationale to me: “Essentially GM gave us a choice: to die of hunger or to die waiting for them to solve this problem.” Parra is one of 68 injured workers fired by General Motors Colombia who started a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá one year ago, on August 1st, 2011.
Review: Cultures of Resistance
Resistance doesn’t always involve roadside bombs or military operations. Sometimes it is sprayed on a Tehran wall or rapped in a hip-hop song in Gaza. It can be a poem in Medellin, Colombia, or come from a guitar shaped like an AK-47. In short, there are few boundaries or strictures when it comes to the imagination and creativity that people bring to the act of defiance.
Bleeding Syria
Syrian rebels have been fighting Bashar al-Assad’s forces for nearly a year and a half in a conflict that has caused 20,000 deaths. As the world watches in horror, much confusion remains about the nature of the rebel troops, the identity of the regime’s supporters, and what actions — if any — should be taken by the rest of the world.
Bahrain: the Tear Gas Regime
Though the U.S. is not currently supplying Bahrain with tear gas, two of the main manufacturers are U.S.-based.
Check Out the Green Party on Israel-Palestine Before Calling It a “Wasted” Vote
Is barring Mitt Romney from the presidency a good enough reason to pass on voting for a dream ticket?
Remembering Alexander Cockburn
It was fitting that writer and critic Alexander Cockburn’s funeral should include a passage from Milton. For more than 50 years, Cockburn combined polished, erudite writing with fierce political insight in the tradition of the great 17th-century English polemicist. Cockburn died July 20th in Germany at age 71, following a two-year struggle with cancer. He was buried July 28th in his beloved Petrolia, California.