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Does international law have a future?

Lawrence Davidson considers how the application of international law has become “class based”, where the criminal leaders of powerful states – or those with powerful patrons – enjoy impunity, while

America’s Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others? [Must read]

You have asked me to speak to current American policies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the prospects for peace in the Holy Land.

Hurricane of inhumanity: five years after Katrina

Mamoon Alabbasi argues that, five years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the principal lesson from that disaster – the need to put humanity above prejudice and greed – has

The US Embassy denies intervention in Egypt’s affairs

Haynes Mahoney, spokesman for the US Embassy in Cairo stressed that the drafted law to support democracy and freedoms in Egypt submitted by a number of the US Senators was

Has “Obamageddon” signed the world’s death warrant?

Stuart Littlewood considers the deadly implications for humanity of US President Barack Obama’s decision to sell Israel nuclear materials and technology and to reaffirm “a four-decade-old secret understanding that allowed

Wake up Americans

When will the American public wake up to the fact that Israel controls America? If the public doesn't wake up, Israel will destroy America.

Necons side with Israel against Obama

In a phrase that the neocons used in the 1980s to demonize Americans who criticized Ronald Reagan’s bloody policies in Central America, it could be said that the Washington Post’s

Making Matters Worse in Afghanistan

Civilian deaths inflicted by American firepower in Afghanistan are generating deep-seated anti-Americanism, with some Afghans saying that even the Russians were less violent, argues Charles Pe?a.

Washington says Egypt leading piracy battle

The US government explained that Egypt is leading the working group on public information, while the UK is leading a team specialized in military coordination and information exchange.

Afghanistan and the Outsourcing of War

A worrying two-thirds of the Pentagon’s personnel in Afghanistan are private military contractors, unaccountable to military law or ethics, swaggeringly overbearing, and not in any hurry to help improve the