Review of Allen James Fromherz, The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present (Berkeley: […]
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Deep Democratization in Egypt: How Women are Driving the Changes (Krause)
Wanda Krause writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Political analysts writing on Egypt have tended to focus on the missteps of President Mohamed […]
Lawmakers Threaten Brooklyn College for Event on Boycott of Israel over Settlements (Democracy Now!)
Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! reports on the attempt of far right-wing partisans of Israel to quash a courtesy sponsorship by the Department of Political Science […]
Drones and Democracy (Moyers Video Interview)
Bill Moyers discusses with his guests the question of “Drones and Democracy” The blurb for the show from BillMoyers.com: Vicki Divoll and Vincent Warren on […]
Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy! (Greenpeace)
Greenpeace USA explains: Big Coal plans to get around Environmental Protection Agency restrictions on toxic emissions by just shipping the coal abroad to countries that […]
Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo
NBC’s Michael Isikoff has revealed the text of a white paper composed for Congress by the Department of Justice that sheds light on the legal […]
Paranoia Strikes Deep: A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past. In its wake, President Obama […]
Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)
Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” reports on the leaked drone memo authorizing killing of American citizens abroad at the president’s order: The blurb for the show: […]
Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls’ Education
Malala Yousafzai has released two videos in the past few days, one before her surgery to put a plate in her skull, and after she […]
US Covert Drone War in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia – Jan. Update (Woods et al.)
Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Yemen was hit by the highest number of airstrikes in […]
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