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How the ‘war on terror’ came home

Matt Kennard September 19, 2013 Matt Kennard

The story of Aaron Alexis is still obscure. But effects of an over-taxed US military are painfully visible among 2 million veterans.

While details are gradually emerging, there is much we don’t know about the navy yard shooter Aaron Alexis. Yet, the shooting rampage of the navy veteran who retained a contractor’s pass to the navy yard in Washington DC has a context: a stressed and over-extended US military, exhausted by more than a decade of “war on terror” tours of duty, and a huge population of veterans who bear the mental and physical scars of their service and often struggle to reintegrate. read more

Anti-Fascist Struggle and Race in the Face of Golden Dawn: A Greek Anarchist Responds

Joshua Stephens September 18, 2013 Joshua Stephens

Today, the world learned of the stabbing death of Greek antifascist hiphop artist Pavlos Fissas, who performed under the name MC Killah P, at the hands of thugs affiliated with the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. His death is just the most recent since the party’s rise in recent years, but may have tipped a country teetering on the brink of civil war into incredibly volatile territory; antifascists have already clashed with police across the country, and Golden Dawn offices have been attacked.

The Startling Size of US Military Operations in Africa

Nick Turse September 12, 2013 Nick Turse

Source: Tom Dispatch

They’re involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that’s just the ABCs of the situation. Skip to the end of the alphabet and the story remains the same: Senegal and the Seychelles, Togo and Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia. From north to south, east to west, the Horn of Africa to the Sahel, the heart of the continent to the islands off its coasts, the US military is at work. Base construction, security cooperation engagements, training exercises, advisory deployments, special operations missions, and a growing logistics network, all undeniable evidence of expansion—except at US Africa Command. read more

The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention

Walden Bello September 9, 2013 Walden Bello

Supporters of an impending U.S. strike on Syria claim that it is necessary to punish the Assad regime for using chemical weapons on its citizens and to prevent it from further employing them. The situation, says Washington, calls for “humanitarian intervention.”

“They Fear Us Because We’re Fearless”: Reclaiming Indigenous Land in Honduras

Beverly Bell and Tory Field September 3, 2013 Beverly Bell and Tory Field

"Honduras has been known for two things only: being a military base for the [contra] attacks on the Nicaraguan revolution, and Hurricane Mitch." - Berta Caceres, co-founder and general coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.

The Low Pay Behind America’s Fast Food: Strike Puts Fast-Food Workers’ Struggle in Spotlight

Jeff Nall August 29, 2013 Jeff Nall

Recently fast-food workers have forced the issue of their low-paying jobs into the public spotlight with what has been called the largest strike by fast-food workers in US history. In the process of making demands for livable wages, fast-food strikers are challenging customers to consider the lives of the human beings behind the counters.