Moammar Qaddafi is simultaneously playing the al-Qaeda card to rally US imperialism to his side and playing the US imperialism card to rally the Libyan people to his side.
The UN appointed a team of special prosecutors to investigate allegations that Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi has ordered forces to torture and abduct opponents.
Seven Coptic Christians were shot dead in street clashes with Muslims in Cairo, as pro-Mubarak goons armed with knives and machetes attacked protesters in Tahrir Square.
Thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets on March 7 to protest against the kingdom’s naturalization policy, which they say is aimed at changing the demographic balance in the Sunni-ruled but Shi’ite-majority country. Protesters marched on government immigration offices while… Read moreBahrain: Shi’ite protesters march against naturalization policy
A Yemeni protester died of gunshot wounds after being hit when police opened fire overnight on anti-regime demonstrators who attempted to establish an encampment outside Sanaa University.
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Alaska refused to order ExxonMobil to pay an additional $92 million in damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
A federal judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of a recent Ecuadoran court judgment against US oil company Chevron for pollution of rainforest lands.
On International Women’s Day, many human rights defenders were absent from Ciudad Juárez, following a wave of violence in which leaders have been assassinated and forced into exile.
Some 20 prisoners escaped in Burkina Faso after middle and high school students set four police stations on fire to protest the killing of four youth by police last month.
International consensus is growing for some kind of foreign military intervention in Libya as Qaddafi’s forces continue to press their offensive against rebels both east and west of Tripoli.
US President Barack Obama issued an executive order allowing military commissions for Guantánamo Bay detainees to resume for the first time since he took office.
Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit against the FBI after Afifi discovered a global positioning system device on his car’s undercarriage.
