Team Agonist Editor in Chief: Michael Collins
Editorial Team
nymole, Raja, Numerian, Lex, Actor212, Graham, steeleweed
Contributing Authors
Brian Downing, Jillian, Cliff Schecter, Nat Wilson Turner, Don Henry Ford, Jr., Jack Cluth,
Rook
Editor Emeritus:
Sean Paul Kelley
In Memoriam: Rick Harrison, 1952-2008
Thoughtful, Global, Timely
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By Raja, on May 18th, 2013 Review by Organisation of American States on illicit drugs ‘could mark beginning of the end’ of prohibition
The Observer, By Jamie Doward, May 18
European governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a “gamechanging” report on global drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for [...]
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By Tina, on May 17th, 2013 (AFP)- French President Francois Hollande will sign a gay marriage and adoption bill into law Saturday, after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition.
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By Raja, on May 14th, 2013 Obama administration took records in apparent effort to track down source who disclosed alleged Yemen terrorist plot story
The Guardian, By Ewen MacAskill, May 13
Washington – The Obama administration has opened up a new front in its battle against media freedom by seizing phone records from the offices of the Associated Press news agency [...]
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By Raja, on May 12th, 2013 BBC, May 12
Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican – a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480.
They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after refusing to convert to Islam.
Their names are [...]
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By Raja, on May 8th, 2013 Washington Post, By Karen Tumulty, May 7
Mount Pleasant, SC — The conservative electorate of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District voted Tuesday to resurrect the political career of disgraced former governor Mark Sanford (R) by returning him to his former House seat.
Sanford’s special-election race against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, 58, a businesswoman and first-time [...]
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By Raja, on May 4th, 2013 The Guardian, By Glenn Greenwald, May 4
The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI [...]
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By Tina, on May 4th, 2013 (Foreign Policy Magazine) – The foiled arrest that explains America’s failure in Afghanistan.
Buried in the recent New York Times revelation that the CIA has been delivering bags of cash to Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a nugget of information that tells the whole story about just how self-defeating U.S. Afghanistan policy has been. [...]
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By Tina, on May 4th, 2013 (BBC) – Seven soldiers serving with Nato’s force in Afghanistan have been killed in two attacks, the alliance says.
An Afghan soldier turned his weapon on coalition troops in the country’s west, killing two in the latest so-called insider attack.
Earlier, a roadside bomb killed five US soldiers in the southern Kandahar province.
The deaths [...]
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By Raja, on May 3rd, 2013 Los Angeles Times, By Kate Mather, Catherine Saillant & Christine Mai-Duc, May 3
The Springs fire has scorched at least 18,000 acres between Pacific Coast Highway and the 101 Freeway, damage worsened by a harrowing about-face shift in winds that sent the fire roaring back to the north.
The latest estimate from the Ventura [...]
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By Tina, on May 3rd, 2013 (McClatchy) – Since the United States first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, a signature goal of the war has been to increase Afghan national security forces and give their members the skills to vanquish domestic terrorist groups and other security threats on their own.
But as the Obama administration prepares to pull 34,000 U.S. [...]
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By Tina, on May 3rd, 2013 (NYT) — An American tanker airplane used for midair refueling over Afghanistan crashed soon after departure on Friday from the Manas airport in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan, according to an American official and local media reports.
A crew of five people were flying the airplane, a KC-135 Stratotanker, according to AKI Press, [...]
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By Tina, on May 3rd, 2013 (AFP) – Around 100 miners are estimated to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region and nine rescuers trying to free them are now trapped, a miner said on Friday.
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By Tina, on May 2nd, 2013 (CSM) – After decades of population loss to cities, rural areas in Spain – and across Europe – have been gaining allure as havens from the ongoing recession.
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By Tina, on May 2nd, 2013 (McClatchy) – One month after a 65-year-old ExxonMobil pipeline burst without warning and dumped Canadian tar sands oil in the town of Mayflower, Ark., government investigators and residents are still looking for answers to basic questions about the spill.
When did the pipeline begin leaking? When and how did the oil company find out about [...]
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By Tina, on May 1st, 2013 (AFP) – President Evo Morales announced the expulsion of USAID from Bolivia, accusing the US development agency of meddling in the country’s internal affairs.
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