by Tom Engelhardt | Nov 25, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
Honestly, I don’t know whether to rant or weep, neither of which are usual impulses for me. In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, I have the urge to write one of two sentences here: Paris changed everything; Paris changes nothing. Each is, in its own way, undoubtedly...
by Nazish Kolsy | Nov 24, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
The Intercept — a website launched by First Look Media with Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill in the wake of the Snowden revelations last year — was founded to promote official transparency and accountability. This fall, it scored maybe its biggest...
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...