International

EDITORIAL: Blackwater and privatization

September 21, 2007

The impact of the privatization of U.S. military forces bubbled to the surface, again, when the Iraqi government announced it was revoking Blackwater USA’s operating license following an incident where eight Iraqi citizens were killed. Of...

Zones of conflict: challenge to African unity

September 21, 2007 By Libero Della Piana

There is a new danger plaguing Africa: zones of conflict are expanding into regional wars that take an ever-increasing human toll. In the recent past, Africa was wracked by wars for liberation from colonial rule, coups...

When a terrorist is our terrorist

September 14, 2007 By Walter Tillow And Greg Godels

Recently, a 20-year-old American, Din Dona Thin, took an American Airlines flight from Miami to La Paz, Bolivia. She declared to Bolivian customs officials that she was bringing “cheese” into the country, but a search of...

Is Bush planning war on Iran?

September 7, 2007

News Analysis The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. Last week, Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security...

A look behind the housing crisis

August 31, 2007

Close to a million families lost their homes last year. This year, it will likely be 2 million. There were 25,000 layoffs in the mortgage industry in the first three weeks of August. Building supply and...