The beginning of March saw the opening of the first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Barcelona. The question referred to by the Organising Committee in the first session of the RTP was...

Countries bordering the Caspian sea need to sign supply contracts this year for Europe's long-planned Nabucco gas pipeline if the project is to go ahead, with a ‘big push' expected from the European Commission and...

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." The words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after the 1942 defeat...

The tie-up between Arab entertainment giant Rotana and pro-Israel media mogul Rupert Murdoch is viewed in Egypt not only with suspicion but as signalling the decline of Arab film and art heritage. In a country...

Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other natural disasters shed light on social cracks and fissures invisible in everyday life. These disasters provoke social crises that states tend to resolve with militarization, which in turn shows the...

The global financial crisis has not deterred some of the world's developed and developing nations from bolstering their military arsenals with expensive new weapons systems, including sophisticated fighter planes, combat helicopters, submarines, armored vehicles and...

Israel declared two Palestinian villages "closed military zones" in an attempt to ban foreign activists. Israel army on Monday declared two Palestinian villages "closed military zones" in an attempt to halt foreign activists who join...

One day after being sworn into office, President Barack Obama instructed federal agencies to ensure government transparency by complying with the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act law. "All agencies should adopt a presumption...

16 March 2010 European Union finance ministers are holding a two-day meeting in Brussels March 15-16 to discuss a bailout package for Greece under conditions where growing divisions are emerging between European partners on how...

16 March 2010 A long-time US military official used Pentagon funding to establish a private intelligence and assassination network in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a report Monday in the New York Times. The network...