This news item from The Voice of Russia late this week may be misleading: Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden is planning to take a job in Russia in the near future, lawyer and head of a Public Chamber commission Anatoly Kucherena said on Thursday. He did not specify the field

  Author and journalist Max Blumenthal’s second book came out on October 1. Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel recounts Blumenthal’s four-year quest to fully cover, document and chronicle Israel’s inexorable tilt to a country so far to the right, so authoritarian, so overtly racist, so defiant of international standards,

Last Friday an incident occurred at the site of the Bedouin village of Khirbet Al-Makhul, in the occupied West Bank area of Palestine. In violation of Geneva Convention protocols for conduct by occupying forces, an Israeli court ruled early last week that the village should be demolished, as nobody living there

When I first heard this story start on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, I thought it was fair to incoming Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’, regarding his “Happy New Year!” tweet to the global Jewish community. Here is what the foreign minister initially tweeted: Happy Rosh Hashanah Happy Rosh

On Guy Fawkes Day, 2005, I was politely approached by three un-uniformed members of the British secret service. One asked me if he could ask questions regarding my two-week-plus stay in London. My wife and I had checked in, checked our baggage, and were headed on a restaurant hunt in

If only. However, the Obama administration is in a dilemma over what to do about the scheduled September Moscow meeting between the leaders of the United States and Russia: The White House is deliberately leaving it vague as to whether President Barack Obama will attend talks in Moscow with Russian

Venezuela, the country that opened its door yesterday (Friday, July 5th) to American whistleblower and fugitive, Edward Snowden, possesses what many regard as the finest musical education infrastructure in the world.  More than any other aspect of Venezuela’s international goodwill gestures, young musicians participating in what has become known as

RT News and other – mostly Latin American – sources are reporting that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has offered Edward Snowden political asylum in his country.  Reuters now has a story up in English: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday he had decided to offer asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor

As Bolivian President Evo Morales sits marooned in a Vienna airport on the dawn of July 3rd, 2013, having possibly avoided aerial interception over the Atlantic Ocean by U.S. fighters or missiles, it might be fitting to think about the fate of Iran Ar Flight 655, 25 years ago today (emphases

I’m beginning an attempt at a live blog here of Sunday’s demonstrations in Egypt in protest of government and administration policies. There have been rumors and articles predicting a severe clampdown on social media output from the country. Here’s the most recent Reuters synopsis: CAIRO (Reuters) – Rival protesters in