“It is our decree that there will be no poppy cultivation. It is banned forever in this country, whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country.” — Mullah Amir Mohammed Haqqani, Taliban… Read More ›
Imperialist War
Spain indicts Salvadoran soldiers for Jesuit killings
These killings took place in 1989 by the death squads of the El Salvador government, which was supported by the United States through military and financial aid despite the frequent and well-documented massacres that were official policy. A Spanish judge… Read More ›
NATO raids on Libya “a form of new colonialism”: S. African expert
JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Xinhua) — Ongoing NATO airstrikes on Libya represent a form of new colonialism and the Libya crisis risks evolving into a prolonged conflict with even more bloodshed and chaos, a South African expert on international affairs says…. Read More ›
Libya overshadowed by “Kosovo model”
BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) — The latest moves by Western allies against Libya have shown marked similarities to “strategies” they adopted in Kosovo in the 1990s. Catherine Ashton, EU’s foreign policy chief, opened the bloc’s office on Sunday in Benghazi,the… Read More ›
The West’s silence over Bahrain smacks of double standards
The absence of pressure on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will only deepen the gulf of distrust between Iran and the west The European Union and the Obama administration have made a splendid art of double standards by imposing sanctions on… Read More ›
Study: Gitmo Doctors Ignored Signs of Torture
< Officials Shrugged Off Data Suggesting Beatings by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2011 A newly released study details a number of cases in which government doctors at Guantanamo Bay ignored strong evidence of torture and other signs of detainee abuse…. Read More ›
Wikileaks revelations about Gitmo bad news for Obama
In May 2009, when U.S. President Barack Obama was defending his decision to close Guantanamo’s prison, he vowed to review the intelligence files of every remaining detainee. “We’re cleaning up something that is, quite simply, a mess — a misguided… Read More ›
Alleged Subaru Ad in Israel Depicts Running Down Palestinian Children
This story is still developing. The Red Phoenix reprints this article for informational purposes, although some of its claims are disputed. We will provide updates as they become available. … A new advertisement in Israel, meant to show the “power… Read More ›
Libya: Popular Uprising, Civilian War or Military Attack?
Interview: Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon After Tunisia and Egypt, has the Arab revolution reached Libya ? What is happening at the moment in Libya is different. In Tunisia and Egypt, the lack of freedom was flagrant. However, it was… Read More ›
Libya and the World of Oil
By Noam Chomsky Last month, at the international tribunal on crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor came to an end. The chief prosecutor, U.S. law professor David Crane, informed The… Read More ›
Serbia-Kosovo Talks Must Not Forget the Roma
Officials from Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels last week for a second round of negotiations aimed at establishing a formal relationship. Because of the potential for the talks to be politically fraught, negotiators have agreed to limit themselves to… Read More ›
Israel Threatens “Unilateral Steps” if UN Recognizes Palestinian State
Israel informed the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council last week, as well as several other prominent European Union countries, that if the Palestinian Authority persists in its efforts to gain recognition in September as a state within… Read More ›
Report on the Anti-War Protest in Atlanta
On the afternoon of the 19th of March, 2011, determined people from all walks of life gathered together at the Midtown Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia to protest the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya. Represented were many groups from… Read More ›
Libya and the Suspicious Rush to War
An editorial from the Guardian: After many more deaths we are likely to see the partition of Libya – why has there been such a consensus for this military action? The House of Commons is debating the government stance on UN… Read More ›
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