When 26 members of the US Congress wrote to President Obama recently urging him to get a grip on his use of drones as ‘faceless ambassadors that cause civilian deaths,’ one man in particular was responsible. Congressman for Ohio Dennis Kucinich has been a career politician for more than 40 years – but he’s no Washington insider. […]
When 26 members of the US Congress wrote to President Obama recently urging him to get a grip on his use of drones as ‘faceless ambassadors that cause civilian deaths,’ one man in particular was responsible. Congressman for Ohio Dennis Kucinich has been a career politician for more than 40 years – but he’s no Washington insider. […]
Fifteen months on, the short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into a harsh winter of discontent. Syria is close to full-scale civil war. If the conflict escalates further, it will have ramifications far outside the country itself. As former UN Secretary-General and current envoy of both the UN and the Arab League […]
Fifteen months on, the short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into a harsh winter of discontent. Syria is close to full-scale civil war. If the conflict escalates further, it will have ramifications far outside the country itself. As former UN Secretary-General and current envoy of both the UN and the Arab League […]
(CHICAGO) – What’s ongoing bears disturbing similarities to events preceding NATO’s 1999 Yugoslavia aggression. In the 1990s, NATO lawlessly intervened for the first time outside territories of its member countries. No nation or alliance may attack another except in self-defense. Doing so requires Security Council authorization. Washington considers that notion quaint. Rule of law provisions don’t […]
(CHICAGO) – What’s ongoing bears disturbing similarities to events preceding NATO’s 1999 Yugoslavia aggression. In the 1990s, NATO lawlessly intervened for the first time outside territories of its member countries. No nation or alliance may attack another except in self-defense. Doing so requires Security Council authorization. Washington considers that notion quaint. Rule of law provisions don’t […]
(MintPress) – The recent release of 120 CIA documents by the National Security Archives (NSA) reveals new details about Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaida and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which clearly show that the CIA had been tracking Bin Laden a full year before the devastating terrorist attacks, but the Bush administration suspended funding for […]
(MintPress) – The recent release of 120 CIA documents by the National Security Archives (NSA) reveals new details about Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaida and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which clearly show that the CIA had been tracking Bin Laden a full year before the devastating terrorist attacks, but the Bush administration suspended funding for […]
(MintPress) – Accusations that U.S. drone strikes in the Middle East and Africa are killing innocent civilians were at the forefront of discussions at the United National Human Rights Council meetings, held this week in Geneva, Switzerland. The accusations come in the midst of reports that U.S. assassination strikes in Somalia aimed at al-Shabab, the […]
(MintPress) – Accusations that U.S. drone strikes in the Middle East and Africa are killing innocent civilians were at the forefront of discussions at the United National Human Rights Council meetings, held this week in Geneva, Switzerland. The accusations come in the midst of reports that U.S. assassination strikes in Somalia aimed at al-Shabab, the […]
Revelations that President Barack Obama presides over key aspects of secret kill-list machinery that has sentenced thousands to death by drone have disturbed many. Torture and extraordinary rendition under Bush, it turns out, have been replaced with industrial-scale extrajudicial execution by his successor. Today, CIA and Pentagon armed drones range at will over Pakistan, Yemen […]
Revelations that President Barack Obama presides over key aspects of secret kill-list machinery that has sentenced thousands to death by drone have disturbed many. Torture and extraordinary rendition under Bush, it turns out, have been replaced with industrial-scale extrajudicial execution by his successor. Today, CIA and Pentagon armed drones range at will over Pakistan, Yemen […]
(MintPress) – The seizure of Libya’s international airport by an armed militia group last week, combined with an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, has left many Americans wary of investing in the future of Libya after the removal of former President Muammar Gaddafi last year. As an armed militia temporarily seized control of […]
(MintPress) – The seizure of Libya’s international airport by an armed militia group last week, combined with an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, has left many Americans wary of investing in the future of Libya after the removal of former President Muammar Gaddafi last year. As an armed militia temporarily seized control of […]