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Friday, August 31st, 2012
By PIERRE SPREY Counterpunch.org The dry dollar numbers in the latest Congressional Research Serviceannual arms sales report paint an ugly new picture. Over the last 5 years, every major arms exporting country has reduced its sales to developing countries–except for the U.S., which has sextupled its sales. At the beginning of this period, we supplied
Friday, August 31st, 2012
By YANA KUNICHOFF Truthout.org Chicago teachers demonstrate in May, 2012. (Photo: JohnnyGotHisGun)The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is expected to file a ten-day strike notice on Wednesday, say media reports, meaning that the union could call a strike...
Friday, August 31st, 2012
Most of the time, the stories we hear about trafficking are of women and girls. But 20% of trafficking victims are men and boys. By CAMERON CONAWAY The Good Men Project / Alternet.org “My very first survivor...
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
By RAMZY BAROUD Counterpunch.org Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The tragic...
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
By PHYLLIS BENNIS Counterpunch.org The brave, non-violent Syrian challenge to a brutal dictatorship emerged as part of the Arab risings across the region. But that short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into an escalation...
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch.org Washington has been at war since October, 2001. This war took a back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on...
Friday, July 13th, 2012
By JOE PENNEY english.al-akhbar.com Dakar/Bamako – At the Bamako bus station, tales of trepidation from besieged northern towns like Gao and Timbuktu, where Tuareg and Islamist rebels have taken power following a coup d’état in Bamako in...
Friday, July 6th, 2012
The middle class is being hollowed out; increasingly, there are the super-super-rich, and there are the rest of us.
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
By DEEPA PANCHANG and BEVERLY BELL Commondreams.org “I am optimistic that in 18 months, yes, we will be autonomous in our decisions. But right now I have to assume… that we are not.” With these words, Haiti’s...
Monday, February 27th, 2012
By JACK RANDOM Counterpunch.org “When you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming...
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
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