May 2011
Resorting to lawlessness in 'the war against terror' only serves to undermine the very values that made American society strong in the first place.
May 2011
Double standards and double speak surround the case of private Manning; the term 'national security' has been used again and again by the government to cover up bureaucratic mistakes and human rights crimes.
May 2011
Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two – the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular movements – has begun.
April 2011
Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org
The continuing expansion of NATO's intervention in Libya has less to do with oil as in Iraq and is more a reactive response to the wider uprising across the Middle East which threatens US / Western hegemony.
April 2011
Bombing Tripoli while shoring up other despots in the Arab world shows the UN-backed strikes to oust Gaddafi are purely cynical.
April 2011
The real motives behind the western intervention will shape its impact and outcome. Even if a flimsy excuse of humanitarism is used to cover up their hypocrisy and selectivism.
April 2011
It remains unclear what the Western allies were hoping to achieve through their intervention in Libya; but one thing is clear, civilians are still dying as the violence continues, and the UN Secuity Council's mandate went outside the goals of the UN charter.
April 2011
Shibil Siddiqi
Can progressives and anti-imperialists still support the UN-mandated intervention in Libya? They can, and indeed, they must.
April 2011
Since the intervention in Libya has neither resulted in the removal of Gaddafi, nor an end to the fighting - an immediate ceasefire should be top of everyone's agenda to bring an end to the continuing bloodshed.
April 2011
The Vancouver Declaration affirms the incompatibility of nuclear weapons with International Humanitarian Law.
