WASHINGTON — Most nations, including many close allies of the United States, require up to a week’s notice before American warplanes are allowed to cross their territory. Not Egypt, which offers near-automatic approval for military overflights, to resupply the war effort in Afghanistan or to carry out counterterrorism operations in the Middle East, Southwest Asia or the Horn of Africa.
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Head of secret court says court’s ability to police US spying program is limited
The leader of the secret court that is supposed to provide critical oversight of the government’s vast spying programs said that its ability to do so is limited and that it must trust the government to report when it improperly spies on Americans.
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Hundreds die as Egyptian forces attack Islamist protestors
CAIRO — Egyptian security officers stormed two encampments packed with supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, on Wednesday in a scorched-earth assault that killed hundreds, set off a violent backlash across Egypt and underscored the new government’s determination to crush the Islamists who dominated two years of free elections.
Trade with developing countries just got more expensive, thanks to Tom Coburn
The United States has a few ways to help out poor countries. It can just give them money, in the form of direct aid. It can give them stuff — such as food, technology and weapons. Or it can simply stop taxing the goods they sell us, allowing their industries to grow and elevate the country on its own
Without our land we cease to be a people: Defending indigenous territory and resources in Honduras
Miriam Miranda is a leader of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH), which works with the 46 communities of the Afro-indigenous Garífuna of Honduras, to defend their territories, natural resources, identity, and rights. Miriam’s narrative below is from an interview with Beverly Bell in Washington, D.C.
We don’t have life without land: Holding ground in Honduras
For the next three articles, we will pause to linger on Honduras. On vivid display there is the search for solutions to the problems addressed in this Harvesting Justice series: the piracy of land, indigenous territories, agriculture, food systems, and the global commons.
The Workers Defense Project, a union in spirit
LIKE most construction workers who come to see Patricia Zavala, the two dozen men who crowded into her office in Austin, Tex., one afternoon in March had a complaint.
Why is the U.S.’s 1 percent so much richer than everywhere else?
It’s been nearly two years since Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, and the academic establishment is still chewing through questions it raised about how to understand the 1 percent in America. In particular, how did they get so darn rich? And what would happen if we took some of their money away?
Backing Egypt’s generals, Saudi Arabia promises financial support
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of Michael W. Hanna’s foundation. It is the Century Foundation. An earlier version also incorrectly included Syria among nations racing to arm rival factions of the rebel fighters battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is Saudi Arabia, along with Qatar and Turkey, that has armed rebels. This version has been updated.
