by Rachelle Marshall | Nov 4, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev
The good news this week was that Iran was included in the international conference in Vienna aimed at achieving a ceasefire in Syria. The bad news was that the conference ended without agreement, and with the participants firmly divided. As a consequence, there is no...
by Rob Prince | Oct 28, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev
The meshuggeneh offensive If you’ve never seen a group of meshuggeneh pro-Israeli zealots – as self-righteous as they are ignorant, frequently wrong but never in doubt – try to disrupt a peace event that includes two Palestinians and an Israeli opposed to the...
by Medea Benjamin | Oct 15, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Earlier this month, a U.S. airstrike destroyed a Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 22 health care workers and patients. On October 6, the commander of U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan, General...
by Nathalie Baptiste | Oct 2, 2015 | Health, Human Rights, Redev, Women
All over the world, pro-choice activists held a day of action on September 28 to promote women’s right to reproductive health. They’re facing a difficult global climate. Every year 47,000 women die from unsafe abortions — most of them in the 66 countries that ban the...
by Phyllis Bennis, Manuel Perez-Rocha | Sep 24, 2015 | Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Pope Francis’ address to Congress was almost certainly not what John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and other congressional leaders had in mind when they invited the pope to speak. It probably wasn’t what they were all thinking about during the last standing...
