World

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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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian The killing of Osama bin Laden is being celebrated by the US media and government officials who spin it as one of the most important events since 11…
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By Jorge Piñon From The Miami Herald On June 3, 1979, Pemex's exploratory oil well Ixtoc I in Mexico's Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout resulting in what was at the time one of…
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By David Brooks From La Jornada It is said that some American politician, justifying Washington's support for dictators, declared that "Somoza is a son of a bitch, but he's our son…
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