Catholic Workers and friends gathered yesterday morning at the Prudential Building in Chicago — home to President Obama’s campaign headquarters — to say “No to NATO; Yes to Community.” “We are here today,” said Chantal de Alacuaz from Chicago, “to boldly proclaim our desire to live in a world where we say no to NATO [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called African asylum-seekers “infiltrators” who are a “concrete threat to the Jewish and democratic character of the country”. Speaking to IRIN, Ministry of Interior spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said most of the country’s “infiltrators” are work migrants who do not meet the definition of a refugee. The country’s laws define [...]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The judge in Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial on Thursday indefinitely delayed the presentation of evidence due to “errors” by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defense lawyers — a ruling that throws the future of the trial into question. … Mladic, the 70-year-old former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, [...]

Supporters of a longtime California activist, Carlos Montes, rallied outside a courthouse in Los Angeles Tuesday calling on authorities to drop his prosecution. Montes faces four charges, including one for firearms possession that dates back to the 1960s. A longtime leader in the Chicano, immigrant rights and antiwar movements, Montes’ arrest in a May 2011 [...]

By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism. Signed by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve, the 565-page NDAA contains [...]

Libya was supposed to be different. The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan had been learned, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy insisted last year. This would be a real humanitarian intervention. Unlike Iraq, there would be no boots on the ground. Unlike in Afghanistan, NATO air power would be used to support a fight for freedom [...]

Holding of Palestinians in Israeli prisons without charge or trial was the originating grievance of the latest protests by Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem The issue that sparked the mass hunger strike among Palestinian prisoners was that of imprisonment without charge or trial, a practice Israel calls “administrative detention”. There are 308 Palestinians in administrative detention [...]

(AP) WASHINGTON – A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA’s three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded in secrecy because it is a draft, not a finished product. The CIA characterized the volume in court papers as “a polemic of recriminations against CIA [...]

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — The head of the U.N. refugee agency says deepening humanitarian crises across the Middle East and North Africa combined with persistent global economic woes have created a “nightmare scenario.” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said the formation of a broad crisis area across Africa encompassing Libya, Nigeria, Mauritania and Somalia [...]

JERUSALEM: The World Health Organisation on Friday urged Israel to give quick and suitable health care to Palestinian hunger-strikers, including their transfer to civilian hospitals. via Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – WHO urges Israel to act on Palestinian hunger-strikers.