“I’m trembling,” my mother says when I tell her I’m working on an article about how younger and older American Jews are reacting differently to the Palestinians’ bid for statehood at the United Nations. I understand the frustrations of the… Read More ›
NEW YORK — Hundreds of people marched Saturday near Wall Street in New York, but the city thwarted their bid to descend into the heart of global finance itself to protest greed, corruption and budget cuts. Protesters had planned to… Read More ›
Ten Years On by VIJAY PRASHAD “No state shall expel, return (refouler) or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” United Nations Convention… Read More ›
The Harrowing Legacy of Agent Orange by N.D. JAYAPRAKASH The shocking images of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York is well-etched in the minds of almost everyone who had access to a TV set. Similarly,… Read More ›
By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift… Read More ›
By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike… Read More ›
Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies The scale of the CIA’s rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out… Read More ›
Among the foreigners desperate to flee the troubles in Libya are thousands of African migrants from all over the continent. They say they’ve become targets for Libyans who are enraged that African mercenaries are fighting on behalf of the regime…. Read More ›
The terrified man is hung upside down as a mob chant abuse at him, many filming his torture on mobile phone cameras. After some time, a man steps forward and begins to hack off the prisoner’s head, the mob cheering… Read More ›
Gadhafi loyalists showing resilience in Tripoli Forces loyal to fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the previous night, forcing them to retreat from several strategic locations and… Read More ›
Muammar Gaddafi is still at large as loyalist forces staged a defiant and bloody last stand in the Libyan capital against advancing rebels. In a morale boosting development for the regime, the embattled dictator’s son Saif al-Islam also appeared in… Read More ›
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumors of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it transpired that most of these shots were fired by victorious Gaddafi loyalists. On Saturday evening,… Read More ›
Conflicting Stories Abound as War Reaches the Capital by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2011 A flurry of reports from myriad sources are detailing what is a growing amount of fighting in and around the Libyan capital city of Tripoli, as… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 