Via As'ad AbuKhalil, a video of daily life in Bahrain: This reminds me of a recent article at al Jazeera on excessive exposure to tear gas in Bahrain and how some are concerned about long-term effects like cancer. The Bahraini security forces penchant for tear gas...
My piece in today's news section on former CIA officer John Kiriakou and his ongoing trial should be read and followed up with this interview he had with Truthout's Jason Leopold. After watching it, it seems even more utterly absurd that this man should be facing...
American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero on the upcoming trial of detainees suspected of participating in the 9/11 attacks: The Obama Administration is making a terrible mistake by prosecuting the most important terrorism trials of our time...
David Bosco interviews the president of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyun Song. He is elected by ICC judges, "oversees the operations of the court and often represents the institution internationally." Song here responds to criticism that the ICC...
Via Lawfare, prominent American activists have filed suit arguing that the language in NDAA can be used to detain them for engaging in their "daily professional work." They include: Christopher Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Jennifer Bolen, Noam Chomsky, Alexa O’Brien, U.S....
Army criminal investigators have only now completed their first visit to the crime scene where Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is alleged to have murdered 17 Afghan civilians. They are refusing to make any comment about the evidence they've gathered. This photo gives a small...
Ed Husain, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations: In the Syrian opposition, it's no exaggeration to say that there are Saudi Salafis, as well as al-Qaeda elements, and others who are included toward more extreme versions of religiosity...
In The Crisis of Zionism Peter Beinart catalogues some interesting things about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's father, Benzion Netanyahu, who has been a strong ideological influence on Benjamin. And in 2009, at the age of ninety-nine, he told the Israeli...
Israeli authorities have basically ignored a court order in June 2011 to provide Bedouin communities with water, just as Jewish Israelis are. Electronic Intifada: Between 80,000 and 90,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel live in unrecognized villages in the southern Negev,...
Central America has become the most dangerous place on Earth. The prevalence of organized crime, corruption, and inordinate rates of homicide has "metastasized," as this new report from the Council on Foreign Relations describes it. The U.S. has flooded the region's...
