by Jim Lobe | Mar 16, 2011 | War & Peace
Nonetheless, discussion of possible military action continued apace Monday, with Libya topping the agenda of a foreign ministers’ meeting of the Group of Eight in Paris and the U.N. Security Council meeting behind closed doors late Monday to take up an...
by Nick Turse | Mar 16, 2011 | War & Peace
The men walking down the street looked ordinary enough. Ordinary, at least, for these days of tumult and protest in the Middle East. They wore sneakers and jeans and long-sleeved T-shirts. Some waved the national flag. Many held their hands up high. Some flashed peace...
by Kia Mistilis | Mar 15, 2011 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
While the world’s attention is focused on the revolution in Egypt, street fighting in Libya, and the battle for Sana in Yemen, in democracy’s birthplace people are also taking to the streets, continuing to protest an austerity plan that many Greeks say...
by Christine Ahn | Mar 9, 2011 | Women
For the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, my colleagues and I at the Global Fund for Women decided we needed to shake things up. On a daily basis, we are fed a heavy dose of bad news about the plight of women: one in three women are survivors of...
by Russ Wellen | Mar 9, 2011 | Human Rights
At Asia Times Online Syed Salaam Shahzad reports on Libya. The root of the unrest is intrinsically liberal and secular — as it was in Egypt and Tunisia — leaving very little ground on which Islamic political forces can operate. [But while during] these...
