Via Electronic Intifada, Israeli attacks on Gaza "have caused serious damage to civilian infrastructure including homes, schools, sports facilities and a hospital in many parts of Gaza City," according to the the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Israeli forces...

Soldiers in Honduras that were "trained, vetted and equipped by the U.S. government" chased down and murdered a Honduran teenager, in the latest egregious example of US-fueled human rights abuses in that country. Associated Press: Ebed Yanes, 15, was killed the night...

Several hours ago, Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari along with his son, a Hamas operative and at least three other civilians in an attack that launched a new war in Gaza.  Israelis have been receiving call-ups for reserve duty as happens whenever a war or ground...

The flare up of violence between Israel and Gaza looks like its about to escalate, with an Israeli airstrike today killing a Hamas commander and Israeli military leadership talking openly about the possibility of an expanded war on Gaza, possibly including a ground...

Aside from the juicy details of the Petraeus sex scandal, the case raises some serious questions about the ease of government surveillance and individual privacy. Scott Shane at the New York Times: The F.B.I. investigation that toppled the director of...

"Lets you, and me, and all your money that's in all our banks talk." - a hypothetical French prospectus With its economy struggling like many others in the European Union, France is in bad need of foreign investment. And it'd like it to be in cash. And it's already...

Those with a hand in crafting US foreign policy are always more explicit about their strategies than those in the servile political and pundit classes who have a bullhorn to the ear of the American public. The result of this is that the public are under grand...