Mujeres y homosexuales. La combinación de ambas identidades provoca en el mundo árabe una mezcla de incomodidad y ocultación, cuando no el más absoluto rechazo y castigo. Invisibilizadas en sus sociedades, pero en ciertos casos más toleradas que los gays, su misma existencia es considerada por muchos como una afrenta a las bases del Islam [...]

Al menos 23 manifestantes fueron asesinados en El Cairo la noche del domingo 9 de octubre, cuando el ejército y la policía perpetraron una masacre ante el edificio de la televisión estatal. Cristianos coptos realizaban una marcha pacífica que salía del distrito trabajador de Shubra hacia Maspero, en el centro de El Cairo, para denunciar [...]

If the mission to neutralize Osama bin Laden were a blockbuster movie, the screen would have almost certainly faded to black as soon as the accused terrorist’s death was announced. No doubt, the credits would roll to Queen’s “We Will Rock You” and then a big “The End” would appear. Alas, real [...]

As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and “blood-drenched” while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters [...]

Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the President’s daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex of the “national security” monolith that is American power and had retired with presidential plaudits. On the eve of the invasion, he and [...]

“Now people are dying we’ve got nothing else to live for. What needs to happen is for the killing to stop. But that won’t happen until he [Gaddafi] is out. We just want to be able to live like human beings. Nothing will happen until protests really kick off in Tripoli, the [...]

The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders, in politics and journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to corrupt the law and send [...]

Hay una conexión espeluznante y directa entre la retórica del odio que llega a extremos de frenesí en EE.UU., el ataque contra la congresista de Arizona Gabrielle Giffords, los llamados a eliminar al fundador de WikiLeaks Julian Assange y el noveno aniversario de la infame instalación del campo de prisioneros de [...]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will remain in a London prison until a British court takes up a Swedish request for extradition for questioning on sexual crime allegations. An international group of former intelligence officers and ex-government officials have released a statement in support of Assange. We speak to one of the signatories, Daniel Ellsberg, the [...]

The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors that the purges would decimate the country’s intellectual life. “You must welcome dissent; you [...]