military and law enforcement

After more than five months of negotiations, Deputy Leader of the Islamic Dawa Party Nouri Al-Maliki was named as the new Iraqi Prime Minister last month, immediatedly promising to end the insurgency

We reproduce an excerpt from Memoirs of a Revolutionary, (1945) by Victor Serge on the Kronstadt rebellion against the Bolshevik autocracy, its…

An examination of the holding centres for illegal immigrants in and around Greece in so-called Fortress Europe.

A Japanese town council has decided to introduce new rules allowing the jailing of householders who don’t paint their homes a chosen colour for up to a year.

Our exposure to Depleted Uranium is posing a danger that is being wilfully downplayed and ignored. John Couzin investigates

Arms trade. Government sweeteners. Tax havens. Dodgy corporations making a killing. Directors paying…

Historian Howard Zinn on the opposition to the Vietnam War by American soldiers. For a fuller…

Jordan Flaherty and Tamika Middleton report on the fate of prisoners in New Orleans prisons since Hurricane Katrina.

On Sunday, while the media was focused on the protests at the Danish embassy, another protest involving the Somali community in London was occurring, ignored by almost all media sources.

On the eighth day of the Belfast postal workers' wildcat strike police have been called to picket lines which were blocking the entries to the Mallusk sorting office.

As up to 5,000 more British troops are sent to fight in Afghanistan, Paul Rogers from Open Democracy examines the changing situation in the volatile country and looks at what will face the soldiers on their arrival.