US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law

A bill passed Monday in the US Congress and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration—to participate in many forms of protest associated with…

The Washington Post: One state for Palestinians and Israelis

For decades the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has eluded well-intentioned peacemakers. Diplomats have talked, shaken hands, snapped photos — and returned home from summits with strikingly little to show for their efforts.  Meanwhile,…

Russia’s National Interests and Foreign Policy

On February 27, with Russia’s presidential poll already in sight, Moskovskie Novostidaily featured an international politics opinion piece by Vladimir Putin, which came as the seventh in a series of programmatic papers by the Russian…

Clinton: Al Qaeda, U.S., Helping Syrian Rebels

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has admitted that Al-Qaeda and other groups on the State Department’s terror list are on the same side as the United States in Syria and that they are aiding opposition…

Syria: One Country, Two Stories

The battle that has been raging in the southern Syrian city of Homs and that now seems to have been resolved with a ‘win’ for the government, though it would seem at a terrible cost…

Threats Against Iran are Criminal Under International Law

Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Reprimands Ban Ki-moon Last week, Brazil’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Antonio Patriota, reminded Ban Ki-moon regarding his role as UN Secretary General. it referred to the issue of criminal actions in derogation…