JERUSALEM - Israel does not object to talks between the West and Iran if the intent is to stop Iran's nuclear program and as long as Iran does not take advantage of these talks, top-level Israeli government sources tell IPS. But the sources go on to reiterate that...
The prose of the recently leaked report of the International Committee of the Red Cross [.pdf] on torture seems colorless. It is at the same time obscene – almost pornographic. The 41-page ICRC report depicts scenes of prisoners forced to remain naked for long...
Fulfilling a key campaign promise, U.S. President Barack Obama Monday lifted all restrictions on Cuban-Americans to visit their homeland and send money to family members there. In an executive order, Obama also authorized U.S. telecommunications companies to apply for...
"[W]hat lengths men will go in order to carry out, to their extreme limit, the rites of a collective self-worship which fills them with a sense of righteousness and complacent satisfaction in the midst of the most shocking injustices and crimes." - Love and Living,...
