Author: J.Roche

  Syrian troops battled army defectors today in clashes that left several military vehicles in flames. The fighting and other violence around the nation killed

Karen McVeigh – guardian.co.uk Amnesty International condemns State Department as ‘irresponsible’ for granting export licences to munitions firms. Two US companies have shipped crowd control

Eamonn McCann – Belfast Telegraph. Eamonn McCann explains how proclamations about "humanitarian" intervention have been used as a cover for imperial domination in Libya. A

  Eamonn McCann – Belfast Telegraph Belfast Daily Telegraph columnist Eamonn McCann draws up a balance sheet of the West’s war in Afghanistan–and finds nothing

By Aslak Sira Myhre – The Guardian Norwegian Aslak Sira Myhre says we need to use the atrocity in his country to strike a blow

By Mehdi Hasan – The Guardian As the belief has grown that dissent by politically active Muslims has not just been stigmatised, but criminalised, many

By Laura King – Los Angeles Times US-NATO knows the game is up in Afghanistan and all that’s left to play for is to find

Amira Hass – Haaretz Israel’s occupation effectively steals $6.9bn a year from the West Bank and Gaza — 85% of the Palestinian economy — by

By Yifat Susskin – CommonDreams.org If you look only at Afghan "culture" to explain the lack of women’s rights in Afghanistan, you miss the fact

By Lindsey German – Stop the War Coalition If we were to believe the stories coming out of the Bonn conference on Afghanistan, the occupying