The denial of humanity to more than half the world’s population remains part of the broad framework of our world system, writes Vijay Prashad.
Where Flowers Find No Peace to Grow
Category: International
The Names You’ll Never Know
A civilian deaths memorial could zig zag across the U.S., suggests Nick Turse. It could keep extending westwards, in a way that would spur Americans’ interest in their nation’s history and conflicts abroad.
Chris Hedges: America’s Fate — Oligarchy or Autocracy
The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.
Outrage Over ICC Decision to Drop US From Probe of War Crimes in Afghanistan
The decision by the ICC’s chief prosecutor to exclude alleged U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan has drawn the ire of some human rights groups.
Britain Is Ensuring the Death of a Palestinian State
As long as Britain and other states continue to superficially endorse a two-state solution, Israel will become entrenched as a full-blown apartheid state with international blessing, writes Ilan Pappé.
Why Palestine Is Already a State
The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply, wrote Joe Lauria.
Bush Laughs at His Lies That Killed Multitudes
Bushed lied and more than a million died. And he found it amusing when confronted by two courageous Americans on consecutive nights last week.
WATCH: The UN Inquiry into Hammarskjöld’s Death: Last Chance to Reach the Truth?
The United Nations is investigating the mysterious death of its second secretary-general 60 years ago last Saturday in circumstances that appear to implicate the intelligence agencies of the United States and Britain.
UN Food Summit Taken Over by Corporations & Gates
Nils McCune and Camila Escalante say the meeting represents a hostile takeover of world governance by corporate forces and the billionaire elite.
Biden’s Envoy to Haiti Resigns Over ‘Inhumane’ Deportations
Daniel Foote cited the federal government’s “deeply flawed” treatment of the impoverished Caribbean nation.