By John Williams A watershed vote last week by members of Sinn Fein, the Irish political party long associated with the Irish Republican Army (IRA), may change the face of Irish politics. On Jan. 28, party leaders gathered in Dublin and voted overwhelmingly to cooperate with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), a move [...]

By Mena Abedi As the health officials who were convicted for allegedly infecting over 400 children with HIV at Al-Fateh Children’s Hospital in Benghazi, Libya, await their sentencing, a Facebook group has been created to raise awareness among the online community in hopes of helping current efforts to free the prisoners by raising awareness. The [...]

By John Williams SAN FRANCISCO—Politicians, movie stars, students and many more around the nation spoke their minds on Saturday in response to the president’s plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq. In San Francisco, between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered in protest, including a number from Santa Cruz. The crowd carried signs and [...]

By Jono Kinkade Melanie Phillips knows controversy. The British journalist, who was voted 2005′s “Most Islamaphobic Media Personality” by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, came to UCSC on Jan. 23 to speak about her book Londonistan: How Britain Created a Terror State From Within. Speaking at the Merrill Multicultural Center to a diverse mixture of [...]

By Jono Kinkade Dahr Jamail, one of few independent, unembedded journalists on the ground in the Middle East, recently spoke at UCSC about his eight months in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. He is currently reporting for the Inter Press Service, and has been published in The Asia Times, The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, [...]

By Jono Kinkade A taste of history, a touch of politics and a twist of controversy were all part of a presentation given by Juan Cole during his Jan. 17 lecture, "Iraq’s Crisis as an American Crisis" at College 9/10. President Bush’s calls for a troop "surge" and the supposed looming threat of Iran were [...]

By John Williams With upcoming talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, UC Santa Cruz students and visiting experts are presenting a range of viewpoints on the Israel-Palestine debate. The current peace talks are big news for the variety of groups on the UCSC campus that are [...]