In the void left by the government’s utter lack of action, non-profit organizations and volunteer groups have instead stepped up to the plate to protect, assist, and defend victims of these attacks.
Despite a 200-day hunger strike, Israel continues to deny Samer Issawi a trial.
The U.S. military, “witch burning,” negotiations with Iran, among other affairs.
While the Obama administration has continuously urged democratic reforms and dialogue between the Sunni-dominated government and representatives of the Shi’a community in Bahrain, which makes up between 60 and 70 percent of the kingdom’s indigenous population, it has been reluctant to exert serious pressure to achieve those ends.
Little is known about the current state of U.S. involvement in the two-year Syrian uprising, which may have claimed the lives of over 60,000 Syrians. Senior White House officials have repeatedly expressed concern that increasing the arms supply to the Syrian rebels may result in weapons falling into the “wrong hands”, a concern exacerbated by the influx of foreign fighters in Syria. Yet, revelations over the past week have shown near-unanimous agreement among the president’s top national security advisors for greater military intervention.
Once again, Tunisians’ anger has overcome their fear. Spurred by a political assassination, tens of thousands have taken to the streets to protest the state into which their country has fallen. The same sense of decency and dignity that propelled them to the streets before drives them on now.
Instituting a nuclear-energy program with substandard emergency preparedness is like starting a war without medical staff and hospitals.
The attack was certainly a slap in the face to Assad, but was mainly intended to increase chaos in the Arab world.
Approximately two years ago, the CIA got permission from the Saudi government to build one of its growing empire of drone bases in a distant desert region of that kingdom. The purpose was to pursue an already ongoing air war in neighboring Yemen against al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula.
Yet news outlets didn’t publish this story until almost two years later – not for any lack of awareness, but because these editors, urged on by the CIA and the White House, had done their ‘patriotic duty’ and kept the news from the public.
A new ebook claims that the attack on the Benghazi consulate was payback for missions that John Brennan was conducting against Islamist militants without keeping Ambassador Stevens or then-CIA director Gen. Petraeus in the loop.