A Review by Katherine Hughes
In a time and place where Muslims have learned it’s prudent to be silent, we should be especially grateful to Shamshad Ahmad for having the courage to write his book Rounded Up. (more…)
Fri 19 Feb 2010
A Review by Katherine Hughes
In a time and place where Muslims have learned it’s prudent to be silent, we should be especially grateful to Shamshad Ahmad for having the courage to write his book Rounded Up. (more…)
Wed 17 Feb 2010
Nearly a decade ago, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) stood alone as the Senate’s constitutional conscience. Casting the only dissenting vote against passage of the Patriot Act in 2001, he was powerless to stop an opportunistic power grab by neoconservatives who had long sought, well before the tragedy of 9-11, to expand our government’s reach into the lives of law-abiding Americans. (more…)
Mon 15 Feb 2010
You Think Greece Has Problems?
Michael Hudson and Jeff Somers Counterpunch 2/15/10
While most of the world’s press focuses on Greece (and also Spain, Ireland and Portugal) as the most troubled euro-areas, the much more severe, more devastating and downright deadly crisis in the post-Soviet economies scheduled to join the Eurozone somehow has escaped widespread notice. (more…)
Sun 14 Feb 2010
The Retrogression
Ismael Hossein-Zaden Counterpunch 2/13/10
It is becoming increasingly clear that the financial meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent economic contraction that continues to this day represent more than just another recessionary cycle. (more…)
Sun 14 Feb 2010
By Brian Cloughley “fff” 2/09/10
When strong governments wish to impose their will on weaker regimes, they often resort to sanctions. The effects have included the death or debilitation of millions of innocent people. (more…)
Sat 13 Feb 2010
The rational, principled resistance of activists protesting against the Winter Olympics chimes with Canadian public opinion (more…)
Thu 11 Feb 2010
WASHINGTON – Ralph D. Fertig, a 79-year-old civil rights lawyer, says he would like to help a militant Kurdish group in Turkey find peaceful ways to achieve its goals. But he fears prosecution under a law banning even benign assistance to groups said to engage in terrorism. (more…)
Wed 10 Feb 2010
Bill Fisher Truthout 2/10/10
Haiti experts are warning that unless the international community comes up with new, more imaginative and more inclusive approaches to reconstruction and development in the earthquake-ravaged nation, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country can look forward to more of the same. (more…)