Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has been shot dead outside his home, prompting thousands of Tunisians to protest in the capital and across the country, torching ruling party offices in several towns and chanting “the government should fall.” (FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES)… Read More ›
‘Children Are the Best Soldiers I Know,’ Military Defector Insists It’s one of those things you’re not supposed to brag about, but Syrian rebels are praising their ability to attract child soldiers and turn them into “killing machines” to use… Read More ›
An Afghan special forces soldier (AFP Photo / Daud Yardos) A new UN report has exposed cases of vicious torture of Afghan detainees, including beatings, hanging by the wrists and electric shocks. Many were handed over to authorities by… Read More ›
by Ezra Van Auken American drones have been a problem around the world since their inception in the early 2000s; in the past year or so, the advocacy against drones has increased immensely. This could be partly due to the… Read More ›
Jewish settlers hold Israeli flags near the West Bank city. (Reuters / Ronen Zvulun) A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements… Read More ›
The current crisis in Mali is a product of French colonialism, and their intervention will sadly create more blowback. The present intervention in Mali, however necessary and well-intentioned it is, may produce its own blowback [Reuters] The dispatching of French… Read More ›
AFP Photo / Tony Karuba Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing… Read More ›
BY: RYAN KELLER On Saturday, Cyber War News released a cache of e-mails allegedly hacked by someone in Malaysia from a British private defense contractor called Britam Defence. One of the e-mails contains a discussion between Britam’s Business Development Director David Goulding and… Read More ›
Malian soldiers patrol in a street of Diabaly on January 23, 2013 (AFP Photo / Eric Feferberg) Mali’s army has been carrying out summary executions in its war with Islamist rebels, an international human rights group claims. Meanwhile Russia’s FM… Read More ›
Downing Street has said that the British government will dispatch 350 troops to Mali to aid French troops stationed in the country’s north, as part of a UK mission to train local forces and engage in “force protection.” British representatives… Read More ›
A wounded protester is carried during clashes with security forces in Fallujah, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, January 25, 2013 (Reuters / Mohanned Faisal) Iraqi soldiers killed five people after opening fire on an anti-government protest in… Read More ›
AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is… Read More ›
By Andy Dabilis The wife of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leader has been allowed to join the Council of Europe, a human rights organization, despite her denunciation of immigrants as “subhuman” and as the party is being blamed for rising incidents… Read More ›
Written by Nicolas J.S. Davies | AlterNet Day after day, U.S. air strikes have conclusively answered the familiar question of 9/11: “Why do they hate us?” Many people around the world are disturbed by U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan,… Read More ›
by PAUL WALDMAN As we draw closer to the withdrawal in Afghanistan promised at the close of 2014, a look back at America’s longest war. In October 2001, George W. Bush told the country he was sending the American military to… Read More ›
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