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    Reflections of routine air travel
    Saul Landau

    Few commentators dare link poverty and corruption to extremism in Muslim countries.

    Israel as a rogue state
    Praful Bidwai

    Israel's practice of illegal assasinations, such as the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhough in Dubai, is in line with its ruthless policy of consolidating its occupation, expanding illegal settlements, and tightening its economic hold over Palestinians — in defiance of Security Council resolutions...

    The anniversary of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova’s murders
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    On January 19, 2010 one year will pass since the murder of a human rights lawyer and an anarchist activist. This is the day of antifascist mobilization that will be observed every year.

    We live like during e war

    Russians regard everything happening to them as a natural calamity, from train explosion up to neonazi attacks, hoping that all problems will be solved by themselves.

    Ending the US War in Afghanistan
    Phyllis Bennis
     David Wildman

    In this compact, concise, jargon-free primer, the authors examine the U.S. war in Afghanistan and why it must be brought to an end.

    Torture, Aggressive War & Presidential Power: Thoughts on the Current Constitutional Crisis
    Tom Reifer

    This article analyses the intersection of torture, aggressive war and Presidential power in the 21st century, with particular attention to the current US Constitutional crisis and related international humanitarian/human rights law.

    Interview: Neoconopticon report
    Ben Hayes

    The lack of debate on EU's emerging policies on security is not just about "sleepwalking into a surveillance society”, it is also turning a blind eye to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards.

    Afghan creep
    Saul Landau

    President Obama’s Afghan and Pakistan goals for U.S. security remain obscure. If Obama focused instead on the phantom-like bin Laden he may ensure a second term.

    TNI and the Pinochet precedent

    On 21 September 1976, Transnational Institute discovered the brutal cost of fighting for economic and social justice, when Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni Moffitt, a fundraiser for the Institute for...

    Torture: America's policy, Europe's shame
    Mariano Aguirre
     Jan Egeland and Mariano Aguirre
    The degrading treatment meted out to prisoners of the United States-led "war on terror" over seven years has yet to be subject to proper legal scrutiny and accountability. But the responsibility is Europe's too, say Jan Egeland & Mariano Aguirre.
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