Dawn revealed an extraordinary sight in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte on the morning of 20 October 2011 – “extraordinary” that is if you disregard the fact that nothing could have been ordinary in a once beautiful city that now lay in ruins after weeks of continuous bombing and... » read this article

Editor's Note: Is the corporate media's (CBS Money Watch) motive for publishing this article to expose the rottenness of the capitalist system, jailing poor people because they can't pay their bills? Or is it meant to improve collections by the corporations and instill fear in anyone who does not pay... » read this article

Former Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson speaks with the WSWS 23 April 2012 Jennifer Robinson spoke with the World Socialist Web Site last Friday in Sydney. The human rights lawyer and Australian citizen, who had assisted Julian Assange in his British legal challenges to being extradited to Sweden on concocted sexual... » read this article

Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known. This video demonstrates that the United States is not a... » read this article

2 April 2012 On May 19, 2011, 39-year-old Christy Schwundeck was shot and killed by a female police officer in an employment centre in the Gallus city quarter of Frankfurt am Main. Christy Schwundeck came from Nigeria. She was the wife of Peter Schwundeck and mother of a 12-year-old daughter... » read this article

2 April 2012 Editor's Comment Tom Jackson, a right-wing reactionary and self-proclaimed "Northumberland's premier blogger" has a motto on his blog that says, "The truth is the truth whether whispered or shouted." He comments on the police murder of Mark Duggan: The streets of Tottenham saw the worst civil unrest... » read this article

Next time the Regime identifies a group of people as “domestic terrorists,” the result might be summary execution, or imprisonment in military custody, rather than a trial. This is one very plausible result of the dismissal of “seditious conspiracy” charges against members of Michigan’s Hutaree militia.  Thanks to the legal... » read this article

Editor's Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don't See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on YouTube.com for a brief windows of time and before it was censored, taken off YouTube permanently. The film has always been banned in the United... » read this article

Editor's Note: With these new revelations it looks like there was much more to these murders of children than a "Lone Wolf Muslim" who hates Jewish people and went off to kill their children. The author places this attack in the context of an alleged killer working for French intelligence... » read this article

Yesterday we reported that U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales now has a legal team to defend him in the United States against widely published charges that he alone killed the 16 Afghan civilians including 9 children and 3 women in their sleep on March 11, 2012. Later last night we received... » read this article

Three weeks ago, 17-year old Trayvon Martin was gunned down by self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Despite Zimmerman admitting to following, confronting, and killing Trayvon, he has yet to be arrested or charged with any crime.1 Just minutes before Trayvon was killed, Zimmerman had called police stating that Trayvon... » read this article

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The Afghan Army Chief of Staff says the slaughter of 16 civilians, including nine children, in Kandahar province was a premeditated assassination carried out by a number of servicemen, RIA Novosti reports, citing Afghan media. Lt. General Sher Mohammad Karimi’s harsh condemnation of the March 11 mass murder flies in... » read this article

"Farewell, my library! Farewell, the house of wisdom, the abode of philosophers, a house and witness for literature! How many sleepless nights I spent there, reading and writing, the night is silent and the people asleep… goodbye, my books!... I know not what has become of you after we left:... » read this article

Update: On November 5 we published the video below of William Adams, a Texas Judge, cursing, berating and beating his daughter who has a disability for using the internet in 2004. She secretly recorded the beating and the video recently surfaced, receiving national attention. The report stated that Judge Adams "is unlikely... » read this article

15 November 2011 Throughout the United States, city administrations are moving to break up encampments of the Occupy protests, trampling underfoot the constitutionally protected right of assembly. Police cleared out the Occupy camp in Oakland, California in a predawn raid on Monday, resulting in 32 arrests. This followed the shutting... » read this article

I get terribly affected by the kind of things that are happening today, and confess to not being able to be dispassionate. But some important facts we should keep in view if we want to remain sane and work out a saving response to European and American criminal aggression against... » read this article

Editor's Note: For an intriguing background on this important case of the US government's illegal attack on a US citizen who happens to be a leader in the Muslim community, see: Jeffrey Auerhahn v. Tarek Mehanna: Suborning Perjury and Official Secrets Read more details in a summary of his case and... » read this article

Editor's Note: We thank our friends at the Free Tarek Mehanna Support Committee in Boston for writing and submitting this report on the arrest and imprisonment of Tarek Mehanna. Tarek was first arrested by the FBI in the fall of 2008 and then again in October 2009. Read how Asst... » read this article

The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki a U.S citizen in Yemen by a CIA drone missile on September 30 has been publicized by the mass media, President Obama and the usual experts on al-Qaeda as “a major blow to the jihadist network founded by Osama bin Laden” US officials called Awlaki... » read this article