The tale of a Russian cyberwarrior who wanted to know how much damage he could create on the Georgian side.
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How to defy the regional bully
To understand the true signifinance of Israel’s loss to Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon war, this recent speech by the group’s leader Sayyid Hassan Nassrallah is essential reading: A lesson has to be internalized from the fact that a 33-day war launched by the most aggressive army in the world and backed by international support…
Together we stand
This is the only kind of solidarity against web censorship that can pressure governments to re-consider their authoritarian ways: Turkish bloggers are closing their websites to protest against courts banning dozens of mainstream sites for carrying content deemed “immoral” or insulting to Turkey’s founding father. A grassroots “censuring the censors” movement has formed over the…
Just what the US needs
Joseph Biden is Barack Obama’s Vice-Presidential pick. Hold the excitement. Biden will supposedly provide foreign policy “experience” and gravitas to Obama’s youthful exuberance (or so the mainstream media likes to call it, in typically meaningless bluster.) Counterpunch’s Alexander Cockburn tells it like it is: His [Biden’s] “experience” in foreign affairs consists in absolute fidelity to…
To hijab or not to hijab
Egypt, women’s rights and male responsibility. Why is this still even an issue?
Welcome to Gaza
The siege of Gaza is (temporarily) broken. Proof that solidarity with the Palestinian people, suffering because they dared to vote for Hamas in free and fair elections, will never end until Israel’s malignant influence is over.
This is what empire means
According to the Pentagon’s 2008 “Base Structure Report,” its annual unclassified inventory of the real estate it owns or leases around the world, the United States maintains 761 active military “sites” in foreign countries. (That’s the Defense Department’s preferred term, rather than “bases,” although bases are what they are.) Counting domestic military bases and those…
The war on terror is a broken record
From the clandestine battle in Laos in the 1970s to the outsourcing of terror in Iraq during the current war, the US has a long and sordid history of fighting “terror.”
Highlighting Israeli brutality
With news that two ships have finally left Cyprus headed to Gaza to break the international blockade of the Palestinian territory, it’s probably unlikely that the Israelis will allow them access. If nothing else, this proves that Gaza is still an occupied territory, despite the rhetoric from the Jewish state and its courtiers the world…