Via As'ad AbuKhalil, a video of daily life in Bahrain: This reminds me of a recent article at al Jazeera on excessive exposure to tear gas in Bahrain and how some are concerned about long-term effects like cancer. The Bahraini security forces penchant for tear gas...
Israel's Interior Ministry has announced that they are banning German Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass from entering Israel, despite the fact that Grass never suggested he wanted to visit in the first place. Termed Germany's "most famous living writer," Grass spawned a...
Unveiled over the weekend and dismissed as an April Fool's Day joke, Russia's announcement of a zombie-creating "superweapon" is all too real, insists Premier Vladimir Putin. The zombification ray is being developed by scientists as a more "politically acceptable"...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | April 6, 2012IN THIS ISSUEVeterans return their medalsTop newsOpinion and analysisEventsChicago NATO Summit: Afghanistan and Iraq Vets Give Back Their MedalsFrom Iraq Veterans Against the War:We, Afghanistan and Iraq veterans from around the...
My piece in today's news section on former CIA officer John Kiriakou and his ongoing trial should be read and followed up with this interview he had with Truthout's Jason Leopold. After watching it, it seems even more utterly absurd that this man should be facing...
American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero on the upcoming trial of detainees suspected of participating in the 9/11 attacks: The Obama Administration is making a terrible mistake by prosecuting the most important terrorism trials of our time...
David Bosco interviews the president of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyun Song. He is elected by ICC judges, "oversees the operations of the court and often represents the institution internationally." Song here responds to criticism that the ICC...
Via Lawfare, prominent American activists have filed suit arguing that the language in NDAA can be used to detain them for engaging in their "daily professional work." They include: Christopher Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Jennifer Bolen, Noam Chomsky, Alexa O’Brien, U.S....
Army criminal investigators have only now completed their first visit to the crime scene where Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is alleged to have murdered 17 Afghan civilians. They are refusing to make any comment about the evidence they've gathered. This photo gives a small...
Ed Husain, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations: In the Syrian opposition, it's no exaggeration to say that there are Saudi Salafis, as well as al-Qaeda elements, and others who are included toward more extreme versions of religiosity...
