World

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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By Anthony Faiola and Debbi Wilgoren From The Washington Post LONDON — Recognizing what he described as his failing strength of “mind and body,” Pope Benedict XVI on Monday…
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Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian (Excerpted from "Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire." Interviews with David Barsamian…
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By Saul Landau On three occasions I traveled through Syria, whose boundaries got made by French colonial officials, a nation that once served as the seat of an Islamic Empire. In 2004,…
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By Joseph Stiglitz From Project Syndicate NEW YORK – In the shadow of the euro crisis and America’s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy’s long-term problems.…
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