Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in last Friday’s Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack on Gaza in winter 2008. For...
Israel Aiming Punitive Measures at Soft Targets
RAMALLAH - As the international community becomes increasingly critical of Israel's discriminatory treatment of Israeli-Arabs and the brutal occupation in the Palestinian West Bank, the Israeli authorities are venting their anger against soft targets such as...
Tuesday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 16 Wounded
Rights Groups Deplore Order to Try 9/11 Suspects at Guantanamo
U.S. human rights groups reacted angrily to the Justice Department's announcement Monday that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on Lower Manhattan and the Pentagon will be tried before a military commission at the Guantanamo detention facility in...
The Censored War and You
The Fed Undermines Foreign Policy
Listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address here. Last week I was both surprised and pleased when the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions requiring the Federal Reserve Bank to comply with requests for information made by Bloomberg under the Freedom of...
Monday: 2 US Soldiers, 18 Iraqis Killed; 15 Iraqis Wounded
The Arab Awakening, Hijacked?
News of a rift in the Libyan rebel ranks, as reported in the Washington Post, underscores much about what is wrong with US/NATO intervention in Libya: “When asked who was commanding the army, one career soldier, Ramzi Ali Mohammad, 31, said, ‘Khalifa...


