The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Jerusalem proceed within a framework of assumptions that merit careful thought. By Noam Chomsky, Special to CNN One prevailing assumption is that there are two options: either a two-state settlement will be reached, or there will be a “shift to a nearly inevitable outcome of the one remaining reality — a state ‘from the […]

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African networks, with members in 50 African countries and representing smallholder farmers, indigenous peoples and civil society, met in Addis Ababa 12-16th August 2013 to formulate an action plan to safeguard Africa’s sovereignty over its food, seeds and natural resources from the assault on Africa’s food systems. Africa’s diversity and […]

Four journalists have been killed in violent clashes which swept Egypt on Wednesday, with a number of the press core suffering serious injuries in the clashes. At least 238 civilians died in total as security forces brutally broke up pro-Morsi rallies. Egypt has been swept by horrific street violence, showers of gunfire, blazing fires and tear gas as relentless clashes […]

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov has called for withdrawal of US tactical nuclear armaments from the territories of non-nuclear countries and dismantlement of the related infrastructure. “As an expert on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) I have a question why nuclear armaments are deployed on the territories of non-nuclear countries. What is the nuclear weaponry control system of NATO […]

Cairo (CNN) — CNN correspondents have been describing bloody scenes as security forces move to clear out a sit-in by supporters of Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsy in east Cairo. Arriving at one of the entrances to the Rabaa al-Adawiya Square encampment at about 9:30am local time, CNN’s Reza Sayah said the scene resembled “a war zone.” Thick plumes of […]

Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed a Norwegian documentary film directed by Ola Flyum and David Hebditch is now free to watch in Youtube. The film approaches Srebrenica tragedy from a bit different viewpoint than usual in Western mainstream media. Norwegian documentary about Srebrenica challenges generally accepted narratives about the 1995 massacre giving light to the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina […]

After years of denials, the Central Intelligence Agency has revealed that it did keep a file on Noam Chomsky, an eminent American linguist and anti-war academic, in the 1970s. But the files may have illegally been destroyed, report American media. The CIA had previously denied that it gathered information on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, well-known for his anti-war […]

Supporters of Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted of espionage for leaking secret files to WikiLeaks, presented a petition to the Nobel Institute on Monday backing his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. The petition, launched by the online activist organisation RootsAction, was signed by over 103,000 people who claim that Manning helped shorten the Iraq war by leaking secret […]

What changes in language use can tell us about society By Shaunacy Ferro Individualistic Words Greenfield, Psychological Science 2013 The words that consistently pop up in published literature can tell us a lot about individual and cultural trends and values. Are people talking about their emotions more? Are people feeling depressed? Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at the University of […]

Matt Damon and Barack Obama are no longer bros, at least according to Matt Damon. “He broke up with me,” Matt Damon said. “There are a lot of things that I really question, you know: the legality of the drone strikes, and these NSA revelations they’re, you know, it’s like, they’re, you know, Jimmy Carter came out and said we […]