by Hamza Hamouchene | Jun 13, 2012 | Human Rights
A year ago, waves of uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa swept away western-backed tyrants one after the other – first Tunisia’s Ben Ali, then Egypt’s Mubarak… It seemed the list of toppled dictators was bound to go on and on. These...
by Peter Dale Scott | Jun 7, 2012 | Drugs, Energy, War & Peace
I delivered the following remarks at an anti-NATO conference held in Moscow on May 15, 2012. I was the only North American speaker at an all-day conference, having been invited in connection with the appearance into Russian of my book Drugs, Oil, and War. As a former...
by Tom Engelhardt | Jun 7, 2012 | War & Peace
Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief. The last two presidents may not have been emperors or kings, but they —...
by Rob Prince | Jun 6, 2012 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights
Cross-posted from the Colorado Progressive Jewish News. All Is Not Well in Tunisia Although it — the Arab Spring — began in Tunisia, much of the media attention here in the United States has moved on to Libya, Yemen, Egypt, and Syria, where in some ways...
by John Feffer | Jun 5, 2012 | War & Peace
The Pentagon has traditionally presented cyber war as “their hackers” against “our defenders.” Out there, especially in China, a faceless horde of anonymous computer users are arrayed against the United States in an updated version of the...
