In more than one respect, the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme is similar to the North Korean nuclear dispute. The United States has labelled North Korea and Iran as rogue states and the labelling certainly serves Washington's global interests and agenda. The neocon-scripted document titled Project for the New American Century, which some critics have slammed as Washington's Mein Kampf, …

More than 30 privacy and civil liberties organisations have filed a formal petition with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), urging the federal agency to shut down the use of 'full body scanners' (FBS) at the nation's airports.  At a press conference, Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), one of the signatories to the petition, said, …

Malaysia must not allow this mass murderer to be immune from justice.  IT IS distressing to note that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been invited to Malaysia as an honoured guest of an NGO when he stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by many learned and independent scholars of international law. The case against him looks …

Peace be with you. To all of those who were injured or lost loved ones during the July 2007 Baghdad shootings depicted in the “Collateral Murder” Wikileaks video: We write to you, your family, and your community with awareness that our words and actions can never restore your losses. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. …

The troubles in Kyrgyzstan appear to be far from over, although an opposition-led government is firmly in the saddle and the president has fled to neighbouring Kazakhstan last night. A tense situation prevailed in the country till president Kurmanbek Bakiye resigned yesterday. His resignation and departure came as the provisional government led by the country’s opposition called for his resignation …

Every so often, a convergence occurs between a few ostensibly unrelated events in the endless swirl of news stories, polemics and propaganda, spin and advertising that make up the media sphere today. Like the noonday sun, they pierce a hole through the fog of information that normally obscures the core dynamics behind the larger political-economic system’s smooth functioning. But unlike …