by Inge Fryklund | Nov 20, 2015 | Energy, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace, Women
After the carnage in Paris, Western governments turned immediately to debating the usual tactics for “bringing the terrorists to justice.” Should we employ drone strikes, they wonder? Boots on the ground? Police? The much more important matter, however, is identifying...
by Sufyan bin Uzayr | Nov 12, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
Ever since World War I, if there is one region of the world that has been in constant turmoil, it is the Middle East (or West Asia, whichever way you like to call it). European imperialism, post-colonial despotism or neo-colonialism — there are many reasons that...
by John Feffer | Nov 12, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Let me start with a confession. I’m old-fashioned and I have an old-fashioned profession: I’m a geo-paleontologist. That means I dig around in archives to exhume the extinct: all the empires and federations and territorial unions that have passed into history. I...
by Conn Hallinan | Nov 11, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. For the past eight decades Saudi Arabia has been careful. Using its vast oil wealth, it’s quietly spread its ultra-conservative brand of Islam throughout the Muslim world, secretly...
by Dan Connell | Nov 10, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Temperatures were pushing 115˚ when we reached the crest of a rocky hill overlooking Ali Addeh, a desolate refugee camp on Djibouti’s southern border with Ethiopia and Somalia. Clumps of dull brown scrub dotted the ochre hills. Nothing stirred. Once past the guard at...
