Mike Hanna is the project manager for a trucking company called Afghan American Army Services. The company, which still operates in Afghanistan, had been trucking for the United States for years but lost out in the Host Nation Trucking contract...

INTRODUCTION Since the disillusionment with Party orthodoxy and the resultant ’crisis of faith’ in the late seventies, Chinese society seems to have been trying to reinvent itself in ways different than those that existed earlier. The most striking feature of this...

SOCIAL-JUSTICE SHARES: AHMADINEJAD’S INITIATIVE The Ahmadinejad government that came to power in summer 2005, calling itself the “justice-driven administration” under the banner of mehrvarzi (compassion) represents in fact populism of the right rivaling Mussavi’s compassionate socialism of the left. The scheme,...

By Jean Shaoul World Socialist Web Site, 02/05/09 Five military investigations into war crimes committed by Israeli Defence Force soldiers during Operation Cast Lead, the attack on Gaza in December-January, have ended in a whitewash. ...

By Mahmoud Abbas Wall Street Journal, 19/09/08 (Mr. Abbas is chairman of the executive committee of the PLO and president of the Palestinian National Authority) This month marks 15 painful years since the Arafat-Rabin handshake on the White House lawn. Palestinian children who...