No Secret Why CIA is Now Romanticizing ‘Harsh Interrogation’ Techniques by Robert Crawford “The dark side — that’s what we do.” José Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, used these words in a “60 Minutes” interview last Sunday to defend the use of water-boarding and other “harsh interrogation” techniques on suspected terrorists. His self-assurance [...]
Click image to see more: Palestinians attend a mass near Beit Jala to mark Nakba day May 11, 2012 (MaanImages/Jenny Baboun) By Jenny Baboun BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Christians held a mass Friday on the lands of the Cremisan monastery near Bethlehem, which is threatened by construction of Israel‘s separation barrier. Rev. Ibrahim Shomali, the Roman [...]
Supporters have erected solidarity tents for hunger-striking prisoners across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. JENIN (Ma’an) — Hunger-striker Bilal Diab has sent a will to his family in the northern West Bank on his 75th day without food, relatives said on Saturday. Diab, 27, has refused food since Feb. 29 to protest his detention [...]
Creating a New Economy for the Poor, Starting With Women in the Third World Friday, 11 May 2012 10:12By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Video In many ways, despite advances in technology, the exploitation of the poor by the haves has not changed much over the past few centuries – nor has [...]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock/mostafa fawzy How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education Student research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards. May 11, 2012 | Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. “When I approached professors [...]
Permaculture Visionary: “We Don’t Need to Wait for Permission” to Transform Our Societies Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:00By Brianne Goodspeed, Truthout | Interview Four years ago, a British educator and permaculturist named Rob Hopkins initiated what has since become one of the most rapidly evolving and far-reaching social experiments of our [...]
(Photo: Mona Caron)In case after case around the world, water is being turned into a good for sale and for profit. Driven by a different vision and by economic necessity, a global counter-trend is growing to assure that household water be free or cheap, accessible, and safe, and that the earth’s water be kept pure [...]
Shock Doctrine Opponents Revolt: The Austerity Backlash Across Europe The truth is that the real world has paid the high priests of austerity an unwelcome visit by Owen Jones When I first read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine a few years ago, I had no idea how prescient the book was. It was a polemic about “disaster capitalism”, [...]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. It’s hard to be boobs. Sure, breasts are cherished as givers of milk and the pinnacle of sex appeal, but the modern world hasn’t been good to mammaries. As Florence [...]
Illustrations: Francesco Bongiorni for the Guardian. Click on image for full illustration. Nobody likes to queue. It’s long been known that, in fancy restaurants, a handsome tip to the maître d’ can shorten the wait on a busy night. Such tips are quasi-bribes and handled discreetly. No sign in the window announces immediate seating for [...]
‘Yo Bex! It’s Dave. Da PM’ So what was actually said in those texts between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks? The conversation might have gone like this … ‘It’s me, babes. DC xx’ Photograph: Andrew Parsons “Yo Bex! Luvved the headlines today. U R a stunna. xx” “Who’s this?” “It’s me, babes. DC [...]
JP Morgan’s London office. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images JP Morgan trader ‘London Whale’ blows $13bn hole in bank’s value Shockwaves spread across markets after $2bn trading loss at US bank, which had campaigned to water down regulations The City trader at the centre of a $2bn trading loss at JP Morgan Chase had returned to his home in Paris on [...]
