by Glenn Greenwald July 21, 2009 A task force appointed by President Obama to issue recommendations on how to close Guantanamo announced yesterday it will miss its deadline and instead needs a six-month extension, potentially jeopardizing Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo within a year.  The announcement was made in a briefing given by four leading Obama officials, [...]

by Dan De Luce July 21, 2009 WASHINGTON – The expanding US drone war against Al-Qaeda may be disrupting the terror network’s operations but the lethal bombing raids carry risks for Washington and its ally Pakistan.

por Patrick Moser 10 de julio, 2009 Ghasan Matar, de catorce años, no habla nunca de la explosión que le segó las piernas y mató a su hermano. En realidad, seis meses después de que acabara la masacre israelí contra Gaza, apenas habla nada. Pasa la mayor parte del tiempo mirando fijamente hacia la pared y a [...]

by A.C. Thompson July 10, 2009 Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The reports — broadcast Thursday by WTAE TV in Pittsburgh and WDSU in New Orleans — focus on two unsolved crimes: the near-fatal shooting of Donnell Herrington, who [...]

by Arundhati Roy July 13, 2009 Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia? While we’re still arguing about whether there’s life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By democracy I don’t mean democracy as an ideal or an [...]

Time to Change the Story By Ira Chernus June 25, 2009 The Israel Project hired pollster Stanley Greenberg to test American opinion on the Middle East conflict — and got a big surprise. In September 2008, 69% of Americans called themselves pro-Israel. Now, it’s only 49%. In September, the same 69% wanted the U.S. to side with Israel; [...]

William Rivers Pitt June 12, 2009 Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. [...]

Por Cillian Donnelly BRUSELAS, 8 jun (IPS) – La centroderecha se comprometió a mantener su actual política tras retener la mayoría del Parlamento Europeo en las urnas este fin de semana, a pesar del disímil avance de la extrema derecha. Según los últimos datos, el centroderechista Partido Popular Europeo (PPE) se alzó con más de 36 por [...]

By Chip Berlet June 10, 2009 The alleged shooter at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum today has an online book excerpt revealing his deep roots in historic White Supremacy and antisemitic conspiracy theories, including references to the hoax document The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. His website includes links to White Supremacist and Holocaust denial sites.