Saddam Hussein’s cousin and aide Chemical Ali has been executed.
For some months the world has seen a steady escalation of US military involvement in Yemen, a dismally poor land adjacent to Saudi Arabia on its north, the Red Sea on its west, the Gulf of Aden on its south, opening to the Arabian Sea, overlooking another desolate land that has been in the headlines of late, Somalia.
Debate is raging over the fate of 215 terrorism suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay, further illustrating the devisive nature of terrorism.
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five al-Qaida suspects would be brought to the US to stand trial in New York, igniting bitter reactions from mostly Republican lawmakers.
Cuba is one of the countries that actively contributed to Namibia’s independence from apartheid South Africa. Apart from providing the much needed ideological and logistical support to Namibia during the west African country’s arduous struggle for independence, Cuba sent an estimated 371,000 troops to fight alongside South West African People’s Organisation combatants in Angola over a period of 15 years and provided refuge to Namibians displaced by the war. When the crimson curtain closed on that brutal conflict, Namibia managed to free itself from the shackles of coloninal dominance. Cuba is many things to many people and is seen differently in different parts of the world. Here is one such perspective from Bill Simpich, an antiwar activist in the San Francisco Bay Area.