Author: Bill Weinberg
Pakistan NATO resupply deal: house of mirrors
To grease the deal allowing NATO to resupply the Afghan operation through Pakistan, the US pledged Islamabad $1.2 billion in “counterterrorism” aid—even as Pakistan’s intelligence services are accused of aiding the Taliban.
US Africa Command sees terrorist “coordination”
Gen. Carter Ham of US Africa Command warned of growing coordination between three major terror networks across the continent: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), al-Shabaab in Somalia, and Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Syria: intervention imminent?
Turkey has called a NATO meeting to discuss a response to the shooting down of one of its warplanes by Syrian forces—as the Free Syria Army establishes a command center in Istanbul, and sends a delegation to Washington.
Demand justice for Roxana Sorina Buta
Roxana Sorina Buta, a 21-year-old aspiring actress and Romanian immigrant, was the latest victim of reckless motorists when she was killed in a hit-and-run near Manhattan’s Union Square on May 24.
Assange to Ecuador: three questions nobody (on the left) is asking
Will Julian Assange protest restrictions on press freedoms in Ecuador? Is Sweden any more likely to extradite him to the US than Britain? Will he come clean on WikiLeaks’ collaboration with the Belarus dictatorship?
Obesity driving global hunger, ecological collapse: study
Planet Earth reaching 7 billion people unleashed a tsunami of Malthusian claptrap. Now a new study documents that the problem is the sheer acreage of human flesh, not how many bodies it is distributed amongst.
Bolivia: Evo fetes Ahmadinejad, betrays Iran’s indigenous Kurds
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Bolivia for his third visit with President Evo Morales—a champion of Latin America’s indigenous peoples who has nothing to say about Iran’s oppression and persecution of the Kurds.
Yemen: Pyrrhic victory against al-Qaeda?
Yemeni government forces took back AQAP’s major stronghold towns after a month-long offensive. But al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has grown along with US drone strikes—from a handful of militants to a widespread insurgency.