Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
Arab Israelis say they try to avoid walking around at night for fear they would be attacked by racists Hassan Shaalan A brutal assault allegedly perpetrated by dozens of Jewish teens last week has reawakened long-harbored feelings of fear among… Read More ›
Scientific analysis shows signs of a powerful underwater explosion By Oh Cheol-woo, science correspondent An article has been published in an international academic journal arguing that the explosion that sank the South Korean Cheonan warship in March 2010 may not… Read More ›
US financial and military support for the increasingly authoritarian Maliki government has continued despite rights abuses by John Glaser Iraq executed 21 people convicted of terrorism charges on Tuesday, including three women, according to an Iraqi spokesman for the Justice… Read More ›
Honest reporting from Afghanistan would tell us there is no prospect of victory for the West, and less and less prospect of an orderly withdrawal leaving a stable state behind. by Lindsey German YOU COULDN’T make it up. Or perhaps… Read More ›
Sanctions Also Mean No Refunds, Blizzard Confirms by Jason Ditz The World of Warcraft’s players are gearing up for a new expansion pack to be released next week, but they’ll have to do it without Iranian players, as Blizzard, the… Read More ›
Record suicides prove our right to refuse to fight By Michael Prysner The author is a former corporal in the U.S. Army and a veteran of the Iraq war. The U.S. Army revealed that July yielded the highest number of… Read More ›
Drug Factories to Shutter as International Trade Grinds to a Halt by Jason Ditz US and international sanctions against Iran don’t include sanctions on food or medication, which are both explicitly exempted. At least that’s the theory. In practice, the… Read More ›
Appearing before court, 15-year-old suspected of assaulting Arab youth in Jerusalem lashes out at victim, says ‘If I catch him, I’ll beat him. He should die’ Noam (Dabul) Dvir One of the suspects in the Jerusalem lynch case appeared at… Read More ›
A firsthand account of the assassination raid against the former Al-Qaeda head challenges the official US narrative, claiming bin Laden was shot as he peeked out of his bedroom, unarmed. He did not have a weapon or resist, as was… Read More ›
The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on… Read More ›
No Criminal Charges for Burners, Officials Say by Jason Ditz The investigation into February’s huge scandal in which US soldiers burned copies of the Quran at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan has come to an end, with officials… Read More ›
British Foreign Office Says Committed to Dialogue by Jason Ditz Ecuador President Rafael Correa is reporting that Britain has formally withdrawn its threat to attack the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, saying that his government “consider this unfortunate incident over.” Britain’s… Read More ›
Obama Claims 78 Percent of World’s Market by Jason Ditz Heavily backed by the US government, US arms makers are a serious growth industry, not only providing weapons to America’s own enormous military for its assorted adventures, but capturing the… Read More ›
Common Dreams staff Three of the Marines involved in the video that surfaced in January of soldiers urinating on the corpses of Afghans have received “nonjudicial punishment” on Monday for their roles in the incident. Because they received “nonjudicial punishment,”… Read More ›
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