Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel, a two-and-a-half-year high, on fears that Saudi Arabia will not be able to make up for the shortfall as chaos engulfs Libya and threatens the entire region.
Will Julian Assange’s connections to the notorious anti-Semite and apparent agent of the Belarus dictatorship Israel Shamir be exposed before he wins a Nobel Peace Prize? We hope so.
Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the rising tide of Arab revolution on Israeli subversion, while Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi blamed it on al-Qaeda. Life’s little ironies.
In vivid contrast to Lara Logan’s sexual abuse in Cairo, the mob slaying of a young Palestinian man in Jerusalem in an anti-Arab frenzy has been subject to an effective blackout.
Israeli prosecutors are preparing a $275,000 lawsuit against Bedouin families for the cost of removing them from government land they tried to take over northwest of Beersheba.
The push to tweak the 14th Amendment ominously coincides with a mainstreaming of pro-Confederacy revisionism—pointing to the emergence of a homegrown American fascism.
As his regime totters, Col. Qaddafi calls the insurrection an al-Qaeda conspiracy. But will it be enough to assure the good graces of his one-time advisor Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle?
Fidel Castro writes in his column “Reflections of Comrade Fidel” that NATO’s planned invasion of Libya will begin in “a matter of hours or a few days.”
On David Horowitz’s Front Page Mag, Phyllis Chesler exploits Lara Logan’s sexual abuse in Tahrir Square to portray the Egyptian revolution as a hatefest of Islamic extremism.
Notorious narco-lord "Chapo" Guzmán was convicted by a federal jury in New York and faces life in prison. But violence in Mexico has only escalated since his capture. Few media accounts have noted how Chapo and his Sinaloa Cartel rose as militarized narcotics enforcement escalated in Mexico—a trajectory mirrored by the cartels' move from dealing in cannabis to deadly white powders. (Photo: US Coast Guard via Cannabis Now)
An indigenous environmental activist was killed in Mexico's south-central state of Morelos, three days ahead of a planned referendum on an energy development project that he opposed. Samir Flores Soberanes was a leader of the local Peoples in Defense of Land and Water Front and community radio station Amilzinko. He was slain by unknown gunmen in an attack at his home in the village of Amilcingo, Temoac municipality. He was a longtime figure in local opposition to the planned Huexca power plant and associated natural-gas pipeline, pushed by the government under the Morelos Integral Project. (Photo: Somos el Medio)
