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...
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...