I talked yesterday on Antiwar Radio about the ongoing U.S.-supported corruption and repression in Bahrain. I just came across this week-old Democracy Now segment today, which features a Bahraini activist speaking her mind. Worth a watch.
A new Congressional Research Service report on Obama's military intervention into Uganda and surrounding countries ostensibly to fight the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been obtained by Secrecy News. Here's one excerpt I found particularly interesting: In addition,...
Our devoted Managing Editor Eric Garris is featured in a new book called Making it in the Political Blogosphere: The World's Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success by Tanni Haas. It's a brilliant insider's look at the political blogosphere and the minds...
More U.S.-made tear gas used against protesters in Egypt: More at The Real News As I've written about many times before, "the close military relationship between the U.S. and Egypt/SCAF is" continuing and is serving as an impediment to prospects for democratic...
Remember that old children's game Telephone? Where one kid invents a sentence and whispers it to another kid and so on until the last kid has no clue what was said, and where the kid who sits next to the kid with the really bad speech impediment always either loses or...
I forced myself to tune in to CBS early this morning because of Ron Paul's "Face the Nation" interview. Establishment tool Bob Schieffer previews the interview by announcing that "this morning, we've got an interview with Ron Paul, who, of all people, is rising to...
Via Juan Carlos Hidalgo at the blog for the Cato Institute, this graph illustrates how Mexican President Felipe Calderón's militarized approach to the drug war not only didn't quell the violence, but reversed the downward trend that had been going on for over a...
Electronic Intifada: “The closure of these and other Palestinian institutions are part of a broader policy through which the Israeli authorities seek to stifle Palestinian development in Jerusalem and increase the strength of Israel’s occupation over East Jerusalem,”...
From CostofWar.org Costs of War: 225,000 Lives and up to US$4 Trillion from Watson Institute on Vimeo.
Journalist Sam Husseini was suspended from The National Press Club for asking a Saudi Prince a tough question. His punishment indicates precisely what is wrong with journalism in this country. At his blog, Husseini offers the transcript of the exchange. His part may...
