Recent headline stories about Syria have reported that the CIA is deeply involved in the arms flows and that the rebel groups are setting up an alternative government.

The World Social Forum — a global gathering of activists and analysts — has just gotten under way in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab uprisings.

Cyprus is in effect a victim of the ‘finance curse’ in that its economy was so dependent on the financial sector.

Prisoners at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantanamo are entering their seventh week of a hunger strike and may die soon.

Despite comparative quiet in Jordan, the same socio-economic discontent that drove protests in 2011 remains a fact of life in the Hashemite Kingdom.

Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly suggesting that Medicare be means-tested and Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation.

Cindy and Craig are parent of Rachel Corrie; there have been a series of events the last several days commemorating her killing ten years ago by Israeli troops in Gaza.

The VA now estimates that 22 veterans per day are committing suicide. Only half of this generation of veterans are even registered with the VA.

US special forces veteran links General Petraeus to torture in Iraq – video trailer Reuters reports: “A dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore into Shi’ite districts in Baghdad and south of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.” MAGGIE…