The United States is warring against that hydra of insurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those wars offer a myriad of lessons over how to feed and how to starve a hydra.
With the stakes never higher than they are now, why aren’t activists ramping up the pressure and looking beyond tactics that are allowed by those in power?
Stephen Zunes discusses Iran, Israel, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East in an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal.
Only now, two decades on, Exxon has finally begun its payout of the court award — but only ten cents on the dollar. And Uncle Paul’s boat? No matter. Paul’s dead. So are a third of the fishermen owed the money.
While S-21 is the most infamous of Khmer Rouge prisons, the KR maintained more than one hundred other prisons in Cambodia, of which there is only one survivor.
Whatever side we choose in these fabricated conflicts, human society maintains its steady, relentless path toward mass homicide/suicide. If we ever decide to look up from our text screens and video games, we might actually catch the last act.
An interview with journalist Eric Margolis on the difficulties of writing objectively for the Western media establishment and U.S. policy towards Iran.
Sri Lanka is a country that nature has bestowed many favours upon, yet the people of the country remain under-privileged. An island that can simply be labeled as a tropical paradise, yet burns like hell fuelled by years of bloodshed, infighting and injustices.
Van Nat was taken to S 21, where he was also tortured, and where he was still not informed of charged against him. One-day, guards took him from his cell and locked him in a workshop, where he was instructed to paint a portrait of Pol Pot.
Although more than 6,000 individuals in Burma’s prisons have been released as part of a “goodwill gesture” by the military junta, let’s not kid ourselves. The song remains the same, because the junta refuses to change its ways and it seems that world leaders still can’t and probably won’t act.
FPJ Blog – Between the Lines
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