Julian Assange interviews Hezbollah leader on talk show premiere

Julian Assange made his debut as talk show host Tuesday as the first episode of "The World Tomorrow" aired on Russian TV channel RT. Assange's first guest was a bit of a "get": Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbollah militia. The leader of the Syrian-backed group, which is classified as a terrorist organization in the U.S. and Europe, rarely gives interviews outside of the Lebanese Al-Manar TV channel, which is closely affiliated with Hezbollah.

U.S. Withdrawal a Blessing and a Curse for Afghans

"They don’t want more fighting and for that reason they will
accept any puppet government the U.S. will impose on them"

Though the United States’ announcement to pull its troops from Afghanistan by 2014 was celebrated by most Afghans as the imminent end of a protracted and controversial foreign occupation, there are lingering questions about the outcome of such a withdrawal.

Specifically, experts and lay people alike are asking whether it will make the country safer for democracy or more vulnerable than ever to violence and extremism. Others are sceptical that the country will ever be free of U.S. presence in a geographically strategic country, close to Iran, Pakistan and Central Asia. 

Iranian officials claim Israeli-backed terrorism team busted

Bombs, machine guns, military communications
gear and other equipament were reportedly seized.

Iranian state media reported Tuesday that a team of terrorist "devils" backed by Israel had been identified and arrested by Iranian security forces.

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry claimed it had busted "a major network of terrorism and sabotage," saying the group was planning attacks on Iranian targets, PressTV reported.

Tunisia's Youth and Their Fight for Freedom of Expression

After the fall of the Tunisian dictator, the debate
about censorship on the Internet resurfaced.

In Tunisia, a new debate is taking shape. Long suppressed by the authoritarian regime of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's free expression movement for many years existed on the fringe, comprised of bloggers, software developers, media aficionados and expats whose frustration at Tunisia's Internet censorship and surveillance regime – in place for over a decade – fomented their activism.

Drone Technology Takes Off

Wars in the fourth dimension.

The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) held its conference this month in Israel for the first time. Do future wars by land, sea and air belong to robots? The modern battlefield pushes troops to their limit. Infantrymen haul heavy loads on their backs which hinders their combat performance. 

What if...Hamas controlled Gaza had human rights?

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Freeing Childhood From Prisons

98% were subjected to physical
or psychological violence...

Hamza has memories no 17-year-old should. "I was desperate. I didn't talk to anyone. I didn't want to go outside the house. I was very nervous. I'd be irritated with the simplest matters." Last year, Hamza was arrested in the middle of the night on suspicion that he threw stones at Israeli settlers near his school in the West Bank. He tells IPS that he was handcuffed and blindfolded, and beaten on the way to interrogation.