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The Washington Post reports that a plume of volcanic ash from Iceland hovering over Northern Europe severely disrupted air travel for hundreds of thousands of airline passengers today as …
The “Other” Terrorism: Militarism and Violence Against Women
Since beginning the Feminist Peace Network in 2001, I have written and spoken about militarism and violence against women more times than I can count. In those years I …
Feel Safer Now?
I write a lot of stories, news mostly. They're carried by InterPress News Service. I've been doing this for a very long time, so I'm usually able to separate …
America and the Dictators: From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai
At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined.
US Military Still Lying About Special Forces Night Raid in Afghanistan
US officials are “probing a possible attempted coverup” in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by US Special Forces accompanied by Afghan …
Ruth Marcus | The Court Unheard
Washington - The public is zero for seven at the Supreme Court this term. That tally doesn't involve the justices' votes on cases. It's the number of times that …
Capitalism Is Experiencing an Existential Crisis
Marianne2, with France Culture, has presented a series of interviews by Antoine Mercier with various intellectuals on the subject of the economic crisis. To close the series, economist and …
Google Street View Alarm Europeans
Whether a government or a private company gathers data, Europeans get nervous. Recent controversies over the volume of information about ordinary Europeans that U.S. agencies have demanded in the …
Contractor Deaths Accelerating in Afghanistan as They Outnumber Soldiers
A recent Congressional Research Service analysis obtained by ProPublica looked at the number of civilian contractors killed in Afghanistan in recent months. It's not pretty.
Iraq Vet Denounces War Crimes: “We Fired on Buses Full of Civilians“
Seven years on after the second US invasion of Iraq, the Americans continue slaughtering civilians, now in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Recently, the video of the massacre of 12-15 Iraqis …