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Israeli soldier guarding a detainee

Breaking the Silence’s Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000–2010.

Smokestack

The Bank claims it wants to step up to the challenge of climate change. But why is it still investing in fossil fuels?

Barack Obama

How did a community organizer and a constitutional law professor become an extrajudicial, drone-happy president? 

Drone flies above Afghanistan

A combination of diplomacy, legal challenges and activism could end the program of US drone strikes.

Protests in Cairo

A sweeping presidential decree to extend his own authority and push through a new constutution has sparked protest in the streets of Cairo—and unified Morsi’s opposition.

The tangled diplomacy over UN recognition seemed to affirm that Hamas’s defiance pays greater dividends than the Palestinian Authority’s conciliation.

How can two generals be hailed as military heroes, when the wars they commanded failed spectacularly?

David Petraeus

Petraeus may have had the affair, but we're all responsible for the U.S' worshipful embrace of our military generals. 

Many governments and popular movements are embracing the need for systemic change.

A column of prisoners at Jaworzno camp in Poland, a former subcamp of Auschwitz

Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?

Blogs

US drones bomb Pakistan regularly. Now, Washington is about to deliver twenty F-16s and surveillance planes to Islamabad along with a thousand 500-pound bombs.

May 12, 2010

Downing Street may be in the news this week for a far different reason--the upheaval following the British election--but five years ago the secret memo with the infamous phrase about intelligence about WMD in Iraq being "fixed" made headlines (but only on progressive blogs).

May 10, 2010

Christine Fair dismissed reports of civilians deaths as propaganda from Pakistani media sources.

May 10, 2010

BBC & PRI's "The World" interviews reporter Joshua Kors about the deliberate misdiagnosis of returning veterans. 

May 10, 2010

Robert Gates calls for Congress, the Pentagon, and defense contractors to make serious cuts.

May 8, 2010

Protesters in London are calling on Nick Clegg to hold out for electoral reform, but both in Britain and in Greece "the markets" are squeezing democracy.

May 8, 2010

Though it's still too soon to declare a winner, Britain's parliamentary election has some clear losers.

May 7, 2010

Blackwater's owner called his critics 'tapeworms' and did his best to sound like a member of the Tea Party.

May 6, 2010

Demonstrations in Greece may have caused three deaths, but who caused the financial crisis that led to the demonstrations? 

May 5, 2010

The Clegg effect has changed the face of British politics. How does an old Labour supporter decide which way to vote?

May 5, 2010
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