Egypt

Esam Al-Amin on Egypt and Morsi.

Gaza

Seumas Milne on Gaza and Israel's attack.

Europe and Israel/Palestine

Europe's complicity in Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Free speech on campus

Free speech is restricted on US campuses.

H-Joon chang

Ha-Joon Chang on socialism for the rich and markets for the poor.

Bacon Colombia

David Bacon on Colombia trade unionist and the free trade agreement.

NYT on Spain

NYT article on how people in Spain are forced to find food in dumpsters.

Germany workers

NYT on how German workers have been made more flexible over the last decade.

Engler Quebec

Yves Engler on the many positive effects of the Quebec protests.

David Bacon Colombia

David Bacon on Colombia and free trade.

Ha-Joon Change on riots

Ha-Joon Chang on riots in Europe against austerity.

Iraq oil

Update on Iraq oil with a link to a book on the subject.

Colombia labor

In Colombia, workers for a GM plant have sewn their mouths shut as part of a hunger strike. They protest their awful working conditions, claiming GM fires them when they get injured on the job.

Media Ireland

Vincent Browne on Denis O'Brien and interference in editorial matters.

Quebec

Very good article on the Quebec students' strike movement.

Mexico mining

David Bacon on Canadian mining corporations in Mexico displacing communities.

Austerity

Ha-Joon Chang: austerity has never worked.

Bank profits drug trade

A new study from Colombia shows that most bank profits from the drug trade are reaped by western countries, especially by than banking system.

David Bacon on immigrants and the 1986 Act and a follow up article. And another one is here.

Achcar on the left in the Arab Spring.

Afghanistan drugs

Cites a CRS report on total counternarcotics spending in Afghanistan 2002-2010: $4.7 bn.

Documentaries

Films on social justice.

Syria

Gilbert Achcar on Syria.

Greece military spending

Very good article on military spending in Greece and the economic crisis.

Russia drugs

Article on Russia's drug policies.

Mexico unions

David Bacon on unions in Mexico.

China

John Bellamy Foster on China and the economic crisis.

Afghanistan bases

Nick Turse on military bases construction in Afghanistan.

Syria Arab Spring

Seumas Milne on the Arab Spring in Syria.

Achcar Arab Spring

Gilbert Achcar on the Arab Spring.

Mexico drug war

A few good facts from this article on the war on drugs in Mexico:

A high-ranking Mexican official told The Washington Times that “strategic law enforcement and intelligence collaboration — bilateral, regional and global — between the U.S. and Mexico has advanced at an unprecedented rate since Calderon took office.”

“A lot of policymakers in Washington would be concerned to see that evaporate,” regardless of who wins the upcoming election, the Mexican official said.

The U.S. support, however, represents a fraction of the estimated $45 billion Mexico has spent on the war under Mr. Calderon, whose administration bankrolled a top-secret $100 million underground bunker and has deployed 45,000 army troops across 18 Mexican states since taking office in 2006.

The crackdown appears to have helped stem the flow of U.S.-bound cocaine. Total cocaine seizures in the U.S. dropped from 201 metric tons in 2005 to 109 metric tons in 2009, suggesting that “the availability of cocaine in the United States has stabilized at a reduced level,” according to the United Nations’ 2011 World Drug Report.

While the same period saw violence soar in Mexico, the report cited a drop in Mexican cocaine seizures from 48 metric tons in 2007 to 22 metric tons in 2009.

Arab spring

Esam Al-Amin on Tunisia and Egypt one year on. Arab Spring.

Iran

A number of liberal hawks are opposed to war on Iran.

LBO crisis

Doug Henwood of LBO on the crisis.

Iran oil EU

Articles on the EU's oil embargo on Iran here and here.

Keller Iran

NYT's Keller on the bomb Iran views.

Apple

Article about innovation and outsourcing by Apple and Steve Jobs.

China economic crisis

Seumas Milne on how China deals with the economic crisis.

Arab Spring

Gilbert Achcar surveys the Arab Spring so far.

Cocaine

The Wall Street Journal on cocaine, Colombia, Bolivia, etc. and the war on drugs.

Jundallah

Article about Jundallah, saying that it was the Israeli Mossad that was behind their support, passing themselves as US and CIA agents.

Guantanamo

Excellent article on Guantanamo and how the US came to occupy it.

David Bacon Mexico Migration NAFTA

Excellent article on NAFTA, Mexican migration to the US and lax environmental standards in Mexico that allow US companies to set foot there with fewer constraints.

Glenn Greenwald on Arab Spring

Glenn Greenwald on the Arab Spring and why the US is opposed to democracy in the Middle East.

Health care

Weisbrot on Obama's health care reforms.