World

By Juan Carlos Pereyra for Progreso Weekly MADRID, 13 May 2013 – If someone had told Cuban dissident Gilberto Martínez what would happen to him in Spain, he wouldn't have…
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By Martin Fletcher From NBC News TEL AVIV — For a country fighting allegations of racism and apartheid against its Arab citizens, introducing a "Palestinian-only" bus line for…
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By Saul Landau It’s almost amusing (like watching vampire films) when U.S. officials brag about how wonderful our country is, and how the rest of the world should take lessons…
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By Paul Day From Huffington Post MADRID (Reuters) - More than six million Spaniards were out of work in the first quarter of this year, raising the jobless rate in the euro…
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By Coleen Rowley From Open Mike via Reader Supported News I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was…
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By Saul Landau President Obama has fueled Syria’s civil war flames and lied to Congress about his “modest” role in that conflict. Between 2002 and 2007, I visited Syria four times.…
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By Max J. Castro MIAMI - He came, he saw, he listened, he embraced. In Israel, Barack Obama seemed intent on proving that under his presidency relations between the United States…
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By Mark Engler Will the next pope embrace liberation theology? The conventional answer would be: fat chance. However, without going too far out on a limb, one could also answer in…
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By Saul Landau As a Jew I identify with a long tradition of my ancestors getting persecuted in Russia, the Ukraine and much of Eastern Europe as well as in Germany and other nations.…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A debate on drone strikes – a euphemism for an extremely effective, ultra-high-tech, chillingly impersonal form of state-sponsored…
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