Paul Mutter

Major media outlets once again sit on a big story at an administration’s request.

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir detains “elbow lickers” in “ghost houses.”

The Obama administration gave Israel the go-ahead to escalate in Gaza.

Thanks to the crackdown, Bahrain is increasingly riven by sectarianism, with a more energized Sunni minority and a discredited Shia parliamentary bloc.

Whither Libya after the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi?

Researcher David Hawk explains how people escape North Korea — and what happens to those who don’t.

Defectors are leaking from the Assad regime as if it were a sieve.

North’s Korea’s gulag revealed in its all its horror and immensity.

Kadima and Likud part ways over the military draft in Israel.

The PA has total control over neither its own funds nor its security forces.

Islamist militias have defeated Tuaregs struggling to establish a homeland in Mali.

To paraphrase Leon Trotsky, “You may not be interested in the Occupation, but the Occupation is interested you.”

The U.S. is trying to pressure Russia to put pressure on Syrian President Assad.

Arrests and demonstrations in Sudan will coincide with the anniversary of the coup that brought Omar al-Bashir to power.

Conflict over oil fields is ongoing between Sudan and South Sudan.

Russia has solicited the help of ExxonMobil and Norway’s Statoil to develop a field of oil shale in Siberia.

Tripoli International Airport was seized by an National Transition Council-aligned militia to protest the kidnapping of its commander.

Drone strikes in southern Yemen are radicalizing the population.

Still, it remains an extremely destabilizing choice.

This month the United States lifted restrictions on a host of sales to the moderate Crown Prince of Bahrain in hopes of increasing his influence in the government.