The security situation in northern Nigeria continues to deteriorate as Boko Haram steps up its attacks. Boko Haram is a militant, Islamist group calling for the imposition of Shariah law. The name, Boko Haram, translates into "Western education is a sin." The name...

Decorated CIA operative with extensive contacts in the Middle East, Robert Baer, declares: There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] ... and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also...

Glenn Greenwald yet again dismantles the lies and smears that were used against Bradley Manning by Adrian Lamo and Wired magazine. This must read piece really questions the journalistic integrity of Wired as well as the honesty of Lamo, both of which are being used to...

A new expose from the Nation by Jeremy Scahill detailing the CIA's same, old dirty tricks is certainly troubling. Candidate Obama assured the American public that extrajudicial actions by the CIA and Defense Department were a thing of the past. Transparency, much like...

Lebanon and Israel are becoming even more hostile to one another in disputes over natural gas deposits in the Mediterranean. The recent hostilities are due to maritime borders that were approved by Israel's cabinet and sent to the United Nations for approval. This...

Ideally, all members of the France-based Flytilla would have been allowed entry into Israel and Palestine. Because of Israel's policy of forbidding vocal and prominent opponents of Zionism and the Israeli state, such as Noam Chomsky and Norman Finklestein, most of the...

After the derailment of the commemorative Flotilla, French activists are taking to the skies in order to shed light on the suffering of Palestinians. Some members of the "Welcome to Palestine" movement are already facing difficulties in obtaining entry to the state of...

In an article on news aggregator "The Drudge Report," a story titled "Iran Ridicules July 4th: America is Not Independent" from Israel National News spoke of The left-wing anti-war.com site was sourced as writing that Israel "conducts the most aggressive espionage...

In a must read piece for Al Jazeera, journalist Paul Rosenberg examines the transition of Obama from a figure of revolutionary hope and change to just another run-of-the-mill politician: Things did turn out that way in exactly one case: the repeal of the military's...

The young and still maturing Iraqi military and intelligence agencies have "launched a military crackdown on smuggling gangs, al Qaeda militants and Shi'ite militias responsible for recent attacks U.S. forces." June was the deadliest month in Iraq for American...