A United Nations investigator has demanded that the US publish classified documents regarding the CIA’s human rights violations under former President George W. Bush, with hopes that the documents will lead to the prosecution of public officials. Documents about the… Read More ›
Secretary of State John Kerry announced the Obama administration will provide an additional $60 million in aid and will for the first time provide food and medical supplies to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad. By Henry Chu and… Read More ›
The US is looking to dramatically broaden the definition of “non-lethal support” as it relates to Syria’s rebel factions, according to European officials familiar with recent private meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry. Expanding the definition, the US is poised… Read More ›
Arafat Jaradat, a father of a 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, worked as a gas station attendant and his wife, Dalal, is pregnant. Craig Brown, staff writer An autopsy on the body of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two,… Read More ›
By Jeff Spross What nobody talks about. Between the new-and-improved Simpson-Bowles plan, Joe Scarborough’s feud with Paul Krugman, the relentless drumbeat of the entire Republican Party, and the media blitzkrieg launched by the billionaire-driven “Fix the Debt” campaign, one might think no serious and responsible American can ignore… Read More ›
So why did the authorities turn on him? It started when he helped the feds investigate drug corruption in the Detroit Police Department. Meet Richard Wershe. To other convicts in the Michigan penal system and the handful of DEA and… Read More ›
Israelis chant “Sudanese Back To Sudan” during a right-wing demonstration against African refugees in south Tel Aviv, 30 May 2012. (Oren Ziv / ActiveStills) David Sheen Does Israel refuse to grant equal rights to Palestinian citizens of the state because it is… Read More ›
By Jasper Copping Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule. But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach… Read More ›
AFRICANGLOBE – South Africa’s deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder gave the hornet’s nest of land ownership a sharp political poke in the Country’s Parliament this week. He suggested that Black “Bantu-speaking” people had no historical claim to 40 percent of South… Read More ›
KABUL — In a country where Western accusations of corruption have been lobbed at high-ranking officials and public institutions, the malfeasance that drives Afghans against their own government happens every day on a much smaller scale. Forget special investigations and glossy reports… Read More ›
Earlier this week, France sent its special forces to Cameroon in search of seven French tourists who were kidnapped in the north of the country on Tuesday. Paris accused the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram of being behind the abduction…. Read More ›
Graham’s office insisted that the senator did not disclose any classified information [EPA] Revelation by Lindsey Graham marks the first time any US official has given a number for drone fatalities. A US senator has said that an estimated 4,700… Read More ›
image from http://electronicintifada.net IDF is yet again on the defensive over its troops’ use of social media, after an elite regiment soldier posted pictures of himself half-naked, and smoking drugs on his Instagram, and boasted about killing an Arab… Read More ›
You may have seen charts like the one to the right from the Economic Policy Institute, showing how working people’s wages stopped going up along with productivity gains. This means the gains went…somewhere else. See if you can guess who got… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 