| Latest News |
 | US, Russia to sign military pact
The United States and Russia will sign a military cooperation agreement when US President Barack Obama visits in July, Moscow's top military commander said Friday after meeting his US counterpart.
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| Nation |
 | Texas financier pleads not guilty in $7b fraud
R. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of swindling investors in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, pleaded not guilty to fraud and was returned to jail after being unable to immediately post bail yesterday.
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| World |
 | Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in US
At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras on June 28 were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing graduates linked to torture, death squads and other human rights abuses.
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| Afghanistan/Pakistan War |
 | Bagram detainees treated 'worse than animals'
An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs.
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| Iraq War |
 | CIA crucified captive in Abu Ghraib prison
The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.
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| US Military Affairs |
 | US policies criticized by UN rights watchdog
The United Nations' top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try them in a court of law, and said officials who authorized the use of "torture" must be held accountable.
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| Palestine/Israel |
 | Gaza residents 'live in despair'
The International Committee of the Red Cross has described the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza as people "trapped in despair".
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| Labor |
 | Obama moves against workers on $106 bilion war bill
President Obama signed the $106 billion war-spending bill into law Friday, but not without taking a page from his predecessor and ignoring a few elements in the legislation.
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| Environment |
 | Observatory: Hybrid species can be disastrous for natives
The ecological effects of invasive species are often well known, particularly their impact on native plants or animals. But the invaders sometimes make love as well as war: they mate with related local species, producing hybrids. And the effects of such hybridization have not been the subject of much study.
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| LGBT |
 | 500,000 march for gay pride in NYC
Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.
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| Media Watch |
 | Army bans embedded Stripes reporter in Iraq
The US Army has barred a reporter for the Stars and Stripes newspaper from covering an Iraqi-based unit operating in the still-violent Mosul region because he "refused to highlight" positive news during an earlier visit, the independent newspaper reported Tuesday.
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| Health |
 | Faulty database overcharges patients billions
Congressional investigators said Wednesday that two-thirds of the nation's health insurance industry used a faulty database that overcharged patients for seeing doctors outside their insurance network, costing them billions of dollars in inflated bills.
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| Culture |
 | Beyond Beyond Orwell
In 1946, George Orwell wrote: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it."
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| Analysis |
Misreading the protests in Tehran
After 30 years of enmity that closed off most lines of communication, the recent crisis in Iran has suddenly engendered a boom of U.S. interest in the Islamic Republic.
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| Commentary |
 | COHA responds to the UN drug report
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its 306-page annual World Drug Report on Wednesday, providing a mix of statistical findings and normative policy recommendations which hold implications for U.S. and international trade, security, and drug policy. While COHA applauds the report's praise for rehabilitation over incarceration, the conclusions being drawn from the report and the policy recommendations included in it ought to be modified in light of historical precedent as drug-related experiences from which much can be learned.
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