Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]
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Kenya turns to Geothermal Green Energy (Video)
Kenya is blessed with a great deal of hydroelectric power, but its electricity needs outstrip that source’s ability to supply them, a problem that will […]
Tunisia: Extremists Kill 9 Troops, Defiant Gov’t Sets Dec. 17 Elections
After days of demonstrations and turmoil, Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addressed the public in Tunisia on Monday. Despite calls that he resign in favor of […]
Egyptian Backlash against Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi’s Call for foreign Intervention in Egypt
Maverick Muslim ‘televangelist’ Yusuf Qaradawi has provoked fury in many quarters of Egypt with his recent fatwas and statements on that country. Qaradawi is an […]
All Hell Breaks Loose in Libya
Over the weekend, all hell broke loose in Libya, in worrying ways that suggest that the government is entering new depths of paralysis and incompetence, […]
Twitter Sexist Bullying: The Criado-Perez Case (Channel 4 Video)
“She led the successful campaign to put a woman’s image on the [British] £10 note – but feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez has found herself the […]
The Kidnapper & Torturer vs. the Whistleblower: The Gov’t’s different Treatment of Lady and Snowden (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: He came and he went: that was the joke that circulated in 1979 when 70-year-old former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller […]
Egypt: Elbaradei, al-Azhar, Leftist Youth Condemn Excessive Force
Egypt reacted with shock and grief to the massacre of Muslim Brothers early Sunday morning. Even figures who supported the July 3 coup such as […]
Tunisia: Government Teeters on Brink after Slain Leftist’s Funeral.
An estimated 50,000 came out in Tunis for the funeral of the assassinated leftist opposition member of parliament Mohamed Brahmi, leader of the pro-worker Popular […]
Thousands of Germans Protest Obama/ Merkel STASI-like Spying on Them
A few thousand people came out to demonstrate in 40 cities Germany on Saturday against US National Security Agency spying and German government complicity with […]
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