This UN report assessing the impact of "the Libyan crisis" is worth a note. Apparently, the U.S.-led intervention exacerbated various problems in the region. A summary: While the impact of the crisis reverberated across the world, such neighbouring countries as...
I noted a both their writings early this week here.
A very good piece on Syria in the Guardian by Seumas Milne: Intervention is in fact already taking place. The Saudis and Qataris are reported to be funding and arming the opposition. The Free Syrian Army has a safe haven in Turkey. Western special forces are said to...
On Thursday evening, Feb. 9, Antiwar.com economist will be giving a public talk at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. It will go from 7:30 to 9:00, with ample time during that time period for Q&A. The talk is titled: "Do We Need to Go to War for Oil?"...
"Elliott Abrams’ Dark History in Latin America and the Struggle for Justice": In Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt is standing trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. Rios Montt, an evangelical general who ruled Guatemala in 1982-83 after seizing power through a...
Via As'ad AbuKhalil, Hugh Gusterson has written a piece well worth a read. Excerpt: As the last American soldiers left Iraq in December, so, too, did many of the journalists who had covered the war, leaving little in the way of media coverage of post-war Iraq. While...
Patrick Cockburn: The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100 billion a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all. A little over 10 years ago, I was standing on a small hill by a ruined...
A few days back I received an announcement from Rocky Anderson, announcing the platform of his newly formed Justice Party. Although social justice was mentioned prominently along with the desperate economic plight of many in the U.S., I was struck by the fact that the...
New Yorkers, especially Yemeni émigrés, have been protesting outside the lavish Ritz Carlton hotel outside Central Park where "former" Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is staying. After being granted immunity for the crimes he committed against the Yemeni people...
Remember the Project for the New American Century? They were the neconservative think-tank group that had been advocating invasion and regime change in Iraq since back in Bill Clinton's administration. Many of those involved - including Bill Kristol, Robert...
