Highway of Death: 22 Years Later (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 19, 2013 Persons taking no active part in hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors ...

Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2013 Soon after the joint U.S.-British bombing campaign "Operation Desert Fox" devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lob ...

Obama’s Expanding Kill List | Paul Craig Roberts

Feb. 11, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ...

Bulldozers and More Talks: Paving the Road for a New Status Quo | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2013 Despite much saber-rattling by Israel and the U.S. administration and hyped-up expectations by the Palestinian leadership, the recognition of Palestine a ...

No Security Firms for African Refugees | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2013 The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognized as the world’s biggest security ...

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 17, 2013 If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of “unity” talks have become, they might cease their enthusiastic declarations to w ...

‘The Iranians Are Coming': The Imagined, ‘Sinister’ Iranian Threat in Latin America | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 2, 2013 Reading the text of a bill that was recently signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama would instill fear in the hearts of ordinary Americans. Appar ...

Nakba Revisited: Tragedy of Syria’s Palestinians and Centrality of Right of Return | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 26, 2012 It must have been 2007, although I cannot remember the exact date. I do recall getting lost in what seemed like a futile search for the headquarters of ...

Mali: West Africa’s Gate to Convenient Chaos, Intervention | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 19, 2012 France is insisting on "rapid" military intervention in Mali. Its unmanned drones have reportedly been scouring the desert of the troubled West African ...

Understanding Hamas at 25: Beyond the Tired Language | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2012 “In a moment of high theatre he dropped to his knees, placed his lips on the ground and kissed the land he has commanded by proxy.” This is how Robert T ...

Palestine’s New Status: A History Rerun or a New Palestinian Strategy | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Palestine has become a “non-member state” at the United Nations as of Nov. 29, 2012. The draft of the UN resolution beckoning what many perceive as a historic moment ...