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Death Squads, Murder and U.S. Corruption in Colombia
News broke this week, though not very widely here, that Francisco Santos, who served as Colombia’s Vice-President under President Alvaro Uribe from 2002 to 2010, met three times with leaders of the right-wing paramilitary organization known as the AUC. Present at Santos’ meetings with the AUC – an organization designated by the U.S. State Department…
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No matter who wins Tuesday’s election, U.S. likely to become entangled in Syria’s war
WASHINGTON — Despite Americans’ exhaustion with 11 years of foreign conflict, the victor in Tuesday’s presidential race may find it all but impossible to keep the United States from becoming more deeply entangled in the unfolding calamity of Syria’s sectarian civil war. Pressure for Washington to play a greater role comes from a variety of factors:…
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Israel Admits Assassinating Palestinian Leader in 1988
Israel has officially admitted after more than two decades of secrecy that it ordered the Israeli spy agency Mossad to carry out the assassination of Palestinian leader Khalil Ibrahim Wazir. Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, founded the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah Party with Yasser Arafat and was assassinated in Tunisia in 1988. More than two…
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How McGovern Tamed the Anti-War Movement
A Bright Shining Illusion? by SARAH BLASKEY and PHIL GASPER Was George McGovern a political saint—a man of such total moral purity that he transcended the day-to-day realities of money and power that usually dominate American politics? That’s certainly the impression one might get from reading the tributes that appeared in the alternative media before…
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US Pushes Algeria to Support Invasion of Mali
State Dept.: They’re Beginning to Warm to the Idea Algerian officials are still not on board for the international invasion of northern Mali, and that’s a big concern for US officials. Algerian President Bouteflika says he fears the war will backfire and cause more problems regionally, and without his endorsement, the AU and ECOWAS plan…
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Bahrain bans all opposition rallies
Interior minister cites ‘repeated abuse’ of freedom of speech Bahrain is facing international censure after announcing a ban on all protest gatherings and threatening to take legal action against opposition groups that organise anti-government demonstrations. The order, announced by the interior ministry in Manama on Tuesday, is the most-far reaching attempt to quell unrest in the…
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US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates
Imran Khan is, according to numerous polls, the most popular politician in Pakistan and may very well be that country’s next Prime Minister. He is also a vehement critic of US drone attacks on his country, vowing to order them shot down if he is Prime Minister and leading an anti-drone protest march last month. On Saturday, Khan boarded a flight from Canada to New York…
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Iraq, Afghanistan War Wounded Pass 50,000
More than 50,000 Americans have been combat-wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, a grim measure of the cost of more than a decade of war. According to Defense Department accounting, the number of wounded reached 50,010 on Thursday. The names of the wounded are not released. Unlike those killed in combat, whose names are…
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Sexism and the New Atheism
The Atheistic Imperialists by JEFF SPARROW Slate recently published an important piece by Rebecca Watson, in which she describes the sexism she’s encountered during her career as a ‘skeptic’: that is, a member of the anti-faith, pro-science community that overlaps with the ‘New Atheist’ movement. Watson writes: [W]omen started telling me stories about sexism at skeptic…
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Afghan Policeman Kills Two US Troops in Insider Attack
Officials Offer Few Details on Uruzgan Province Killings A man in an Afghan police uniform attacked and killed two US soldiers today in the Uruzgan Province in the latest apparent “green-on-blue” attack in Afghanistan. Officials have yet to confirm the attacker’s identity, and don’t know if he was an actual policeman or just someone who stole a uniform. The…
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