by Douglas Hill Ever since 9/11, the U.S. government has launched the “War on Terror,” and enacted a virtual avalanche of legislation aimed at containing the threat of Islamic terrorism. Much of this legislation legitimizes the ethnic profiling of people… Read More ›
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Almost 30 million people worldwide live as slaves – report
Nearly 30 million people across the globe live as modern-day slaves, according to a new report. Many are forced into being child brides, child soldiers, prostitutes, or laborers. India accounts for nearly half of the worldwide total. The Global Slavery… Read More ›
Kurdish fighters kill 83 al-Nusra terrorists in Syria
Fighters of Kurdish Popular Committees in Syria have killed at least 83 foreign terrorists affiliated to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in northern province of al-Raqqa. The clashes broke out in Tal Abyad village on Monday when the al-Nusra terrorists were… Read More ›
Syria Rebels Threaten to Wipe Out Shiite, Alawite Towns
By Dana El Baltaji Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority will be “wiped off the map” if the strategic city of Al-Qusair in central Syria falls to government troops, rebel forces said. “We don’t want this to happen,… Read More ›
Red lines and other double standards
By Stephen Gowans According to the White House, Israel has the right to defend itself (1). I would argue that it doesn’t. Based on the theft of another people’s land and denial of their right to return to the homes… Read More ›
Hacked e-mails reveal ‘Washington approved’ plan to stage Syria chemical attack
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 ›
Tunisia’s ‘unfinished revolution’ — interview with Workers’ Party militant
By Peter Boyle November 16, 2012 — Green Left Weekly — Abdel Jabbar Madouri (pictured above) has been a militant in Tunisia since his early secondary school days. He was jailed three times (in 1987,1993 and 2002) because of his political activism. After every arrest,… Read More ›
“Iran and Everything Else” by Michael Parenti
Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had written a number of things… Read More ›
Chemical Weapons and Iranian Invasions: Syria Hysteria Turns to Wild Rumors
State Dept Claims Assad Allies Planning ‘Exit Strategy’ by Jason Ditz, February 10, 2012 In past examples (notably Iraq) the clearest indication of a forthcoming war have been when the reports on the ground turned from exaggerations to hysteria to… Read More ›
Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by… Read More ›
Antiwar Activists Across the Country Protest War Against Iran
by John Glaser, February 04, 2012 In a national “Day of Mass Action,” Americans protested a seemingly imminent U.S. war against Iran in over 60 cities and towns across the country. In San Francisco, about 600 people participated in the… Read More ›
Qatar calls for a U.S. invasion of Syria
Syria crisis: Qatar calls for Arabs to send in troops The ruler of the Gulf state of Qatar has said Arab countries should send troops into Syria to stop government forces killing civilians there. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani… Read More ›