• Report: Iraq social and refugee crisis is worsening

  By Sandy English | According to a report issued last week by the human rights organization Amnesty International, the plight...

   

• Big Oil’s Big Lie

  By George Monbiot | Of course, it’s not a crime, and it’s hard to see how, in a free society, it could or should become...

   

• Mind-Forged Manacles

  By George Monbiot | Which of these countries has the most prisoners per head of population? Sudan, Syria, China, Burma, Saudi...

   

• Alternatives to Free Trade: Fair Trade and Beyond

  By Shamus Cooke  | The global debate around free-trade and its consequences has evolved tremendously in recent years, from...

   

• The Real State of Iraq

  By Juan Cole | American television loves natural disasters. The Burmese cyclones that may have carried off as many as 200,000...

   

• Activists, Journalists Harassed Ahead Of EU Meeting

  Radio Free Europe | Ahead of an EU-Turkmen meeting on human rights in Ashgabat, civic activists and independent journalists...

   

• Richard Dowden: If the people want power, they must fight for it

  While it was always a possibility that the Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, would pull out of Friday’s...

   

• Civilian sex assaults by Afghan soldiers ignored

  By Rick Westhead | Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers “to ignore”...

   

• Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports

  By Brian Stelter | Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq...

   

• NATO: 6,000 troops urgently needed in Afghanistan

  BERLIN (Reuters) | Up to 6,000 additional troops are urgently needed in Afghanistan and a failure to deploy them will only...

   

• Dems to OK Bush War Funds Without Conditions

  By ANDREW TAYLOR | Democratic and GOP leaders in the House announced agreement Wednesday on a long-overdue war funding bill...

   

• Sweden passes ‘Big Brother bill’

  

  Jun 19, 2008 15:53

  Press TV | Swedish lawmakers vote in favor of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored over...

   

• World Governments Misleading and Failing Iraqi Refugees

  Amnesty International | The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting...

   

• Zimbabwe Government Blocks Aid for Six Million In Need

  By Ephraim Nsingo | Sixty-six year old Gogo Lethiwe Ncube gazes at a distant truck cruising towards the Avoca Shopping Centre...

   

• US spy base to be built in Western Australia

  

  Jun 18, 2008 15:09

  BY PHILIP DORLING | Australian defence support for United States military operations in the Middle East will be boosted...

   

• Read the Government Report On Slavery and Iraq

  Irregular Times | There is a report that was released by the U.S. State Department just at the end of last week, and it’s...

   

• Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority?

  By Scott Ritter | “I think the questions were asked. I think we pushed. I think we prodded. I think we challenged...

   

• How many innocent people are going out of their minds today?

  

  Jun 17, 2008 14:01

  By George Monbiot | We shouldn’t be surprised to hear that George Bush dined with a group of historians on Sunday night....

   

• Bush threatens Iran with military action

  By Colin Brown | George Bush has warned Iran that military action is still “on the table” if it fails to respond...

   

• Detention Camp Remains, but Not Its Rationale

  By WILLIAM GLABERSON | The Guantánamo Bay detention center will not close today or any day soon. But the Supreme Court’s...

   

• Democracy in the EU Institutions

  Blair Watch | There is much debate over the Irish rejection of the Lisbon treaty, but what I’m finding interesting...

   

• A New Kind Of Corporate Slavery

  Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools. By Betty Brink | Unless she’s dying or recovering...

   

• Renditions Victim to Sue German Government

  

  Jun 11, 2008 12:07

  Spiegel | A German-Lebanese victim of the CIA’s extraordinary renditions program plans to sue the government in Berlin...

   

• Picket killed in fuel protest in Spain

  By Daniel Woolls | Truckers angry over soaring fuel prices blocked highways across Spain on Tuesday, disrupting supplies...

   

• An alternative to oil?

  

  Jun 11, 2008 11:27

  By Lee Waters | Oil prices could reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year, and the cost of filling up is rising nearly...