World

By Saul Landau On September 11, 1973 (28 years before the World Trade Center-Pentagon attack), General Augusto Pinochet, leading a gang of treasonous officers, ordered Chilean air…
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By Hugh O’Shaughnessy From the British newspaper The Independent Fifty years ago this month, the United States began the embargo on Cuba which continues to this day. But the…
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By Ray McGovern From ConsortiumNews.com Watching top U.S. intelligence officials present the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment” before the Senate Intelligence Committee, I found…
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By Noam Chomsky On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the African position on the attack – in…
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An editorial in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada Iranian military officials announced yesterday that Iran had launched a ground-to-air missile designed and manufactured in that…
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By John Greenwood From the Financial Post Three of Canada’s big banks are quietly building relations with Cuba as the Caribbean nation edges closer to free market reforms,…
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From Z Communications On May 1, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in his virtually unprotected compound by a raiding mission of 79 Navy Seals, who entered Pakistan by helicopter. After…
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By Jon Lee Anderson From The New Yorker There are some uncanny analogies between the story of Osama bin Laden’s life and death and that of a another charismatic political outlaw,…
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By Robert Fisk From The Independent A middle-aged nonentity, a political failure outstripped by history – by the millions of Arabs demanding freedom and democracy in the Middle East –…
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By David Swanson From WarIsACrime.org The plane I was on landed in Washington, D.C., Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had…
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