by Richard John Stapleton

Why can't we keep our noses out of other countries' business?  We could be headed to hell in a handbasket in Syria. How much would this Don Quixote military misadventure cost? The US does not have an inexhaustible supply of money; and it has a huge federal debt and budget problem already, and millions of suffering, frustrated, needy citizens...

Catastrophic Failure in Libya

The books “The Globalization of NATO” and “Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya” deal with the expansion of a military alliance that was supposed to be solely defensive in character and confined to Europe. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc countries, Nato turned global and embarked on an expansionist...

Falk is Princeton University Professor Emeritus. For 40 years, he taught international law and relations. In 2008, he was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.

He's outspoken about longstanding Israeli human rights abuses. They're too horrendous to ignore. On June 6, he addressed them.

by Ivan Eland

At the G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland, Russia faced pressure from the other seven attending nations to push Bashar al-Assad, its Syrian ally, to negotiate his abdication with the West. Since Assad and his Syrian government forces, well supplied by Russia with weaponry, are now winning the Syrian civil war, that outcome is extremely unlikely—and maybe even...

by Holly Dagres

Nothing is more frustrating than one of your own calling for war on people from your ancestral homeland.

If there is one thing I learned about Iran's presidential election, it is the existence of the White Man's Burden amongst some in the Iranian Diaspora community: Iranian-Americans thousands of miles away from Iran, dictating their Western...

Australia has an extremely unpopular minority Labor Government headed by PM Julia Gillard and barely surviving courtesy of the support of 1 Green MP and several Independent MPs. Both the Australian Labor Party and its leader Julia Gillard are deeply unpopular and facing an election on 14 September 2013 in which, according to a succession of polls, neoliberal, pro-war, pro-Zionist,...

One of the most fascinating parts of the Snowden controversy involves the possibility that the CIA or the military or perhaps even some super-secret NSA death squad will assassinate Snowden and thereby avoid the hassle of apprehending him and returning him for what would obviously be a highly publicized and not overly popular public trial.

Replaces Voting Rights Act with Katherine Harris Acts

They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King’s grave. The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping away Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Justifiable public anger holds back only so long. On June 11, protests began. On June 17, they erupted across Brazil. Hundreds of thousands turned out. Estimates ranged up to 1.5 million.

At issue is scandalous misspending on sports. It's at a time of stalling economic growth, layoffs, rising inflation, and few opportunities for youths.

US officials are poking fun at the fact that Edward Snowden, whose commitment to a free society motivated him to disclose the NSA’s massive secret surveillance scheme over the American people (and the people of the world), has fled to China and Russia, two countries that are near the top of the list of violators of civil liberties and privacy.

by Kimberly Halkett

Those in the United States looking for a definitive ruling on one of the country's most divisive social issues, will have to wait.

On Monday the US Supreme Court justices passed on the opportunity to issue a major ruling on use of affirmative action admission policies at public universities.

Keeping Americans safe in two simple steps

In the frenzy over Edward Snowden’s leak of classified information about government data-mining surveillance, public officials and pundits have tried to lock us into a narrowly defined and diversionary discussion that ignores the most important question we face about terrorism.