Salafist militants bulldozed a mosque containing Sufi graves in the center of Tripoli in broad daylight, with no interference from authorities. A similar attack was reported in Zlitan.
Romney’s new energy plan is billed as a drive towards “energy independence”—yet ironically mirrors the plan Obama unveiled two years ago to lift current restrictions on offshore drilling.
Islamophobes are portraying the outburst of ethnic violence in Kenya's Tana River Valley as part of a global jihad—ignoring the ecological roots of the conflict related to climate change.
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Amnesty International USA's executive director Suzanne Nossel is a State Department veteran who is leading the human rights group into an accommodation with US imperialism.
As work commences on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, it emerges that TransCanada’s supposed rival Enbridge is quietly but rapidly expanding its own US pipeline network.
Just as Ecuador has granted asylum to Julian Assange, President Rafael Correa’s government moves to rescind the asylum status granted to a whistleblower from Belarus.
A deadly suicide attack on the funeral of a police officer killed the previous day in a firefight with militants may signal a new advance of the Chechen insurgency into the Ingush Republic.
The British anarcho-syndicalist website Solidarity Federation runs a statement from a representative of a “group of young Syrian anarchists and anti-authoritarians from Aleppo.”
A photographer in Belarus faces seven years in prison for taking photos of teddy-bears that were parachuted into the country by Swedish activists as a stunt.
A jihadist attack on Pakistan’s Minhas Air Force Base coincides with a US Congressional report on threats to the “security” of Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal.
The 67th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender saw a confrontation with Chinese activists over the contested Senkaku Islands in the oil-rich East China Sea.
