Julia Ward Howe conceived the holiday as an anti-war statement in 1870, in response to the Franco-Prussian carnage. But the pacifists who rescue this legacy from oblivion unfortunately engage in their own historical revisionism…
US military advisors to Yemen, pulled out last year due to human rights abuses by the crumbling regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh, are set to return—as drone strikes continue on territory controlled by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
While mainstream accounts emphasize the defendants’ refusal to respect the court, the ACLU points out that the Gitmo tribunal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants falls short of international standards for justice.
Media are suddenly full of voices plugging hydro-fracking as the key to finally achieving US "energy independence"—in undoubted response to a drop in energy consumption, and to modest federal efforts to regulate the industry.
The demolition of a mosque near the Golden Temple of Dambulla—a Buddhist cave-temple in central Sri Lanka—bears echoes of the 1992 destruction of the Ayodhya mosque in India, which ultimately led to the Gujarat genocide.
As the Taliban announce the start of their spring offensive, Obama signs a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Hamid Karzai allowing a major US military presence in Afghanistan beyond the supposed withdrawal deadline of the end of 2014.
The Occupy movement made an impressive return on May Day, with marches held in most cities around the US. But the march in Cleveland was cancelled after five men were arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting to blow up a Route 82 bridge.
As the new World Trade Center tower once again becomes the highest building in New York CIty, the AP account persists in calling it by the abandoned jingoist moniker “Freedom Tower”—and distorts its ranking among the world’s top skyscrapers.
From NY1, April 29: Seven Family Members Die After SUV Plunges From Bronx Parkway Police say seven Bronx family members spanning three generations died Sunday afternoon after the sports utility vehicle they were riding in flipped over a Bronx River… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Mysterious explosions in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk come just as Kiev has announced that it will invest in the trans-Caspian pipeline that by-passes Russian territory—fueling conspiracy theories about a Moscow hand in the blasts.
Supposed ecological crusader and Avatar creator James Cameron, along with Google heavies Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, is among the “investor and advisor group” of Planetary Resources Inc—which aims to start mining the asteroids.
