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Who is behind Damascus terror blasts?

…Kofi Annan, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Middle East Online, April 29) See our last posts on Syria and the Arab revolutions. Please leave a tip or answer…

Nigeria: Chevron oil spill fouls coastal communities

…that the cause of the incident was being investigated. (IRIN, Feb. 10; Upstream Online, Jan. 19) See our last posts on Nigeria and the politics of oil spills. Follow @WW4Report…

Egypt: journalists’ union head on trial

…Syndicate. (The two were wanted for online comments opposing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and allegedly calling for a “coup.”) Though Qalash initially called for the interior minister’s resignation and a presidential apology,…

Cindy Sheehan: Mother Courage or “extremist”?

…a letter Sheehan allegedly wrote to a producer of ABC’s Nightline show that said her son died for a war to protect Israel. In her online diary Tuesday, Sheehan wrote,…

CounterVortex unveils new website

…of online media, it is critical that you put your money where your reading eyes are, to assure the survival and growth of the voices you support. We’re depending on…

Podcast: antivax is fascist II

…and anti-mask protests, from Germany to Romania to England to Brooklyn. A virtual industry churns out relentless online disinformation that is easily refuted by anyone who makes the effort to…

Strikes spread across China

…took a day off Nov. 14 to protest the sale of their plants to a Taiwanese company. Workers launched an online campaign to bring in all 20,000 workers from 24…

Peasants clash with security forces in new Guangdong anti-pollution protest

…expressway before police used tear-gas and batons to clear them. Online accounts of the incident said hundreds were savagely beaten, and that two people were killed. Authorities denied any deaths…

NYC: protest Gilad Atzmon at Theatre 80

…Atzmon and Theatre 80 operator Lorcan Otway have gone online with their own responses—and both are riddled with inaccurate claims about Yours Truly. So I have no choice but to…

Give the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai!

Bill Weinberg Fatwa on Malala Yousafzai? BBC News reported Nov. 9 that tens of thousands have signed an online petition calling for Malala Yousafzai to be nominated for the Nobel Peace…

Al-Qaeda in Iraq inaugurates new campaign of attacks

…ending the war in Iraq. It turns out that today has proven to be the deadliest day of the year in that country.” The video (online at the link) in…

The proverbial pox on both your houses

…are also referred to the online statement signed by numerous progressive writers and activists, including myself, “Anti-Imperialism and the Anti-Humanist Rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon,” urging the Palestine solidarity movement to disassociate…