Calls for expunging references to “Operation Geronimo” from the historical record fail to acknowledge the profound roots of the problem—and are, in their own way, a part of exactly what they seek to oppose: a betrayal of memory.
An Israeli security firm that recently made headlines when WikiLeaks revealed its numerous intrigues in Latin America has now been named as recruiting mercenaries in West Africa to fight for Moammar Qaddafi’s regime.
Israel has used a covert procedure to cancel the residency status of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, the Justice Ministry admits in a new document obtained by Haaretz newspaper.
Rows of marijuana plants were found along with cabbages and potatoes on the border wall of the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed—while his Taliban allies stone people to death for smoking or growing.
The lack of angry protests over the killing of Osama bin Laden indicates how al-Qaeda has been left behind by the Arab Spring. Only those who fetishize Osama because he fetishized America could fail to get it.
Some international law experts are calling the Osama bin Laden killing an illegal “extrajudicial assassination”—as the White House equivocates on whether an effort was made to take bin Laden alive.
The ascension to Langley of Gen. David Petraeus—architect of Bush’s Iraq “surge”—comes just as the Obama administration has explicitly taken on a regime change project in Libya.
Police across the United Kingdom raided squats and community centers on the eve of the royal wedding, apparently fearing a replay of last month’s anti-cuts riots during the media spectacle.
Right-wing websites are jumping on a 2005 UN report predicting that climate change would create 50 million refugees by 2010—and gloating that it hasn’t come to pass. But maybe we are closer to the 50 million than they think.
As “progressives” like George Monbiot pose nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, the big corporations that control both oil and uranium laugh all the way to the bank.
Radioactivity levels skyrocketed in the sea surrounding the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan late last week, raising fears that a new leak in the facility needs to be sealed.
As experts now say the area around Fukushima will be uninhabitable for a generation, protests against nuclear development mobilized in Tokyo, Taiwan, India, California and the Northeast US.
