By Daniel Ellsberg

I just learned that my friend Howard Zinn died today.  Earlier this morning, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the release in Boston in February of  a documentary in which he is featured prominently.  The interviewer asked me who my own heroes were, and I had no hesitation in answering, first, “Howard Zinn.” 

THE BUSINESS is registered in the name of Binyamin Netanyahu. But the reality is different.

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IDF is saving the world

Canada's supreme court has ruled that the government is infringing the rights of a Canadian imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, but is not obliged to ask the US to repatriate him.

Beijing has suspended military exchanges with the US over Washington's plan to sell arms to Taiwan, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

At least nine people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials say.

Dr Ashraf Ghani, the former finance minister of Afghanistan, said that reconciliation talks with the Taliban are under way.

Four Afghan soldiers have been killed and another six wounded after Nato troops clashed with them and called in air attacks, Afghan provincial officials say.

Iran's key opposition figures have implicitly called for a public demonstration on February 11, the anniversary of the nation's Islamic revolution.