Opinion

That Which Cannot Be Spoken

That Which Cannot Be Spoken »

American officials rarely even make the attempt to explain why. And American journalists rarely press them to explain why; certainly not like Helen Thomas does....

February 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Haiti, Aristide, and Ideology

Haiti, Aristide, and Ideology »

The last/only Haitian leader strongly committed to putting the welfare of the Haitian people before that of the domestic and international financial mafia was President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. ...

February 7 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »
From Gaza to Lebanon: Beware the Iron Wall, the Coming War

From Gaza to Lebanon: Beware the Iron Wall, the Coming War »

There will be a new confrontation. New strategies will be employed. Israel will raise the stakes, and will try to draw Syria in, and push for a regional war....

February 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Haiti and its Canadian media presentation – historical amnesia

Haiti and its Canadian media presentation – historical amnesia »

It is time to step up and help the country establish the freedom it deserves without the underlying fear of a free black nation that seems to have underlain most of its historical relations with...

February 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Carleton’s War Portfolio: Students Demand Divestment from Apartheid

Carleton’s War Portfolio: Students Demand Divestment from Apartheid »

Notorious war profiteers, environmental destroyers, and human rights violators. Morally and ethically, these are not the types of firms with which one would expect Carleton University to have any sort of affiliation....

February 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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Analysis

Ukraine’s Future: The Precarious Alternatives to an EU Membership Perspective »

Ukraine’s Future: The Precarious Alternatives to an EU Membership Perspective

While the EU cannot directly influence relations between Russia and Ukraine, any more than it can solve her problems, its Eastern policies do nonetheless...

Feb 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Markets Fail When Humans Are Unregulated »

Markets Fail When Humans Are Unregulated

When free market economists talk about markets deciding this or that, they are reifying a social institution and ascribing to it decision-making power. Socialists...

Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Economy: The Crisis Is Not Over »

Economy: The Crisis Is Not Over

The short answer is that the financial crisis is not over, the recovery is not real, and the U.S. faces a far worse crisis...

Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Finding the American Dream – in China »

Finding the American Dream – in China

As the reality of China’s prowess continues to worry some and impress all, we may have to embrace China as a centripetal force in...

Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Rogue State: Israeli Violations of U.N. Security Council Resolutions »

Rogue State: Israeli Violations of U.N. Security Council Resolutions

Following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter,...

Jan 27 2010 / 6 comments / Read More »

Chile’s Leap Of Faith Towards The ‘New Right’ »

Chile’s Leap Of Faith Towards The ‘New Right’

A billionaire tycoon who made his fortune in bringing credit cards to Chile during the Pinochet years now has the chance to bring his...

Jan 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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Burma: An Interview with Zoya Phan »

Burma: An Interview with Zoya Phan

The people in Burma will continue until we have human rights, democracy and freedom in the country. If we don't resist, our whole race could be destroyed. ...

Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Afghanistan: Karzai Reappoints Dostum as Chief of Army Staff »

Afghanistan: Karzai Reappoints Dostum as Chief of Army Staff

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reappointed Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum as his chief of army staff....

Jan 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections »

Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections

In today's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court ruled that corporations should be treated the same as "natural persons", i.e. humans. Well, in that case, expect the Supreme Court to next rule that Wal-Mart can run for President....

Jan 23 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

The Gaza Freedom March »

The Gaza Freedom March

It was meant to be a historic non-violent protest in Gaza against Israel’s blockade. But forces are often quick to converge in the Middle East against those who work for peace....

Jan 21 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Arts & Culture

Remedying Omissions: A People’s History of the United States »

Remedying Omissions: A People’s History of the United StatesA People's History and his other writings can be seen as an attempt to make up for the omissions and under-emphases of America's dark side...

Feb 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Source of the Economic Crisis: A Chicago State of Mind »

The Source of the Economic Crisis: A Chicago State of MindGates, a former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (1980-87), identifies the source of the current economic crisis as a “shared mindset” into...

Feb 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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Economy

Markets Fail When Humans Are Unregulated

Markets Fail When Humans Are Unregulated

When free market economists talk about markets deciding this or that, they are reifying a social institution and ascribing to it decision-making power. Socialists make the same mistake when they blame markets for...

Feb 5, 2010 / More »

United States

That Which Cannot Be Spoken

That Which Cannot Be Spoken

American officials rarely even make the attempt to explain why. And American journalists rarely press them to explain why; certainly not like Helen Thomas does....

Feb 7, 2010 / More »

Israel / Palestine

My Father was a Freedom Fighter: A Book Review

My Father was a Freedom Fighter: A Book Review

Ramzy Baroud’s “My Father Was A Freedom Fighter” is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of...

Feb 5, 2010 / More »

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Karzai Reappoints Dostum as Chief of Army Staff

Afghanistan: Karzai Reappoints Dostum as Chief of Army Staff

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reappointed Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum as his chief of army staff....

Jan 26, 2010 / More »

Pakistan

Peshawar Press Club Attacked Tuesday Morning, 3 Killed

Peshawar Press Club Attacked Tuesday Morning, 3 Killed

A suicide bomber Tuesday morning attempted to attack the Peshawar Press Club, facing the Frontier Governor’s House. He was intercepted by a security guard, who was killed along with one...

Dec 24, 2009 / More »

Iran

Iran and Latin America: The Media States Its Case

Iran and Latin America: The Media States Its Case

Western media is indeed rife with all sorts of unfounded accusations, baseless speculations and superfluous insinuations....

Jan 23, 2010 / More »

Iraq

Upcoming Iraq Election Seen as Key to Promote Investments in Oil Sector

Upcoming Iraq Election Seen as Key to Promote Investments in Oil Sector

With a general election in Iraq scheduled for January 2010, the U.S. is encouraging the Iraqi legislature to pass the requisite election law, while international oil corporations continue to compete for contracts to...

Oct 21, 2009 / More »

Burma

Burma: An Interview with Zoya Phan

Burma: An Interview with Zoya Phan

The people in Burma will continue until we have human rights, democracy and freedom in the country. If we don't resist, our whole race could be destroyed. ...

Feb 5, 2010 / More »
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