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A Memorial Day Massacre
(Photo: chicago.indymedia.org) It's a dramatic, shocking and violent film. Some 200 uniformed policemen armed with billy clubs, revolvers and tear gas angrily charge an unarmed crowd of several …
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Five Eye-Opening Facts About Our Bloated Post-9/11 “Defense” Spending
(Photo: Staff Sgt. Jeff Kaus / U.S. Department of Defense) This week, the National Priorities Project (NPP) released a snapshot of U.S. “defense” spending since September 11, …
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Witness: Pakistani Intel Officer Ordered Hit on Mumbai Jews
This report is part of a ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation. A version of this article appeared in the Washington Post. An officer in Pakistan’s intelligence service chose a Jewish center as …
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Women Lose Livelihood Centres to Militants
Peshawar - Housewife Shahida Jabeen was devastated when she heard the news that she could no longer take sewing and embroidery classes at the local training centre in her …
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Egypt Hunts Down the Right to Love
Cairo - Abeer Fakhry, a young Christian woman, had only wanted to live with a man who would love and respect her, and not with her abusive husband. But …
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Veterans Court Seeks Alternate Justice System in Philadelphia
John Fleming is a 58-year-old African American born and raised in Philadelphia who served in the Army from 1969 to 1972 maintaining nuclear weapons in silos in Germany. …
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Libya: Water Emerges as a Hidden Weapon
Libyan postcard artwork representing the Great Man-Made River project. (Photo: sludgegulper) Cairo - Libya’s enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government …
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GOP Push to Tighten Voting Rules May Disenfranchise Young, Poor
Voters in Westfield, Massachusetts, November 4, 2008. (Photo: hlkljgk) Miami - Less than 18 months before the next presidential election, Republican-controlled statehouses around the country are rewriting …
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Egyptians Take to the Streets Again to Demand Reforms
Cairo - Thousands of protesters filled Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday for what was billed as a “second revolution,” chanting their demands: try former President Hosni Mubarak and his …
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Haitian Mayor’s Office Vows to Destroy All Refugee Camps, Launches Violent Campaign
On May 23 and 25, police in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince destroyed camps which sheltered people who were otherwise homeless since the earthquake. Police and other municipal workers …