Children continue to be affected by airstrikes and the disruption of essential services, with 37 children reported killed since Jan. 1
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Rape in India, and the Low Status of Women
The unnamed Indian woman who was gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi and had to be sent to Singapore for medical treatment has died […]
Best Green Energy Responses to Climate Crisis: IC’s 2012 Amun-Ra Award
I have created an annual Amun-Ra award for heroic green energy responses to our global climate crisis. Climate change is by far the most urgent […]
Top 10 Ways the Middle East Changed, 2012
1. The end of any potential ‘two state solution’ to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel’s far right wing Likud government, headed by Binyamin Netanyahu, built or […]
Schwarzkopf (RIP) and How the United States got Bogged Down in the Middle East
Gen. Norman H. Schwarzkopf is dead at 78. He died of pneumonia. Schwarzkopf was among the military leaders who repositioned the United States as a […]
FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Peaceful Occupy Wall Street as Terrorist threat
Second Amendment fundamentalists push for open carrying of firearms in public, and armed gun nuts even attended one of President Obama’s rallies in Arizona. That […]
The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) – (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)
Skateistan is a skateboard NGO in Kabul, which maintains a facility for skateboarding and gets as many as 300 youth to attend as spectators at […]
Syria’s Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000
Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Jasim al-Shalal, head of Syria’s military police, defected late Tuesday to Turkey, joining the revolutionaries against the regime. He announced his […]
Egypt: Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution
Dozens of progressive Egyptian women cut their hair in Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest the passage of Egypt’s new, fundamentalist constitution. The protesters chanted, […]
New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy
The Egyptian electoral commission on Tuesday signed off on the constitutional referendum, declaring that the country’s guiding legal framework had received a little over 63 […]
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