Opinion

An Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder

An Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder »

The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assassins in the supposed safety of a sovereign country....

March 11 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
Paraguay, Honduras and Barack Obama

Paraguay, Honduras and Barack Obama »

During his campaign for the presidency of Paraguay, former bishop Fernando Lugo promised to bring health care to the millions unable to afford it....

March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word … like “bribery”

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word … like “bribery” »

Seven members of the House of Representatives steered hundreds of millions of dollars in largely no-bid contracts to clients of a lobbying firm, PMA Group. In fiscal year 2008 alone, the seven lawmakers sponsored $112...

March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Informed Consent

Informed Consent »

You will likely be sent to a battlefield where you will be expected to do your best to terminate the lives of whole, separate, unique, living human beings you know nothing about and who have...

March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
The Washington Post on ‘lunatic’ 9/11 ‘conspiracy theorists’

The Washington Post on ‘lunatic’ 9/11 ‘conspiracy theorists’ »

Surely, that proper credible investigations into the events of 9/11 should occur -- indeed, should have occurred long ago -- should also be non-controversial, no matter which conspiracy theory one believes, whether it comes from...

March 9 2010 / 28 comments / Read More »

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Analysis

Néjàd Vu, All Over Again: The Media, ‘Pretext’, Context, & 9/11 »

Néjàd Vu, All Over Again: The Media, ‘Pretext’, Context, & 9/11

By misrepresenting the country of Iran, its people, its system of government, its culture, its religion, its elected and unelected leaders, the Western press...

Mar 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Is The Recovery Real? »

Is The Recovery Real?

If the Federal Reserve has to monetize the federal deficit, the world will turn its back on a rapidly depreciating dollar....

Mar 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Rationale for Keeping U.S. Forces in Iraq »

The Rationale for Keeping U.S. Forces in Iraq

With the deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of next year creeping nearer, the U.S. has to find...

Feb 25 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »

Re-charting U.S.-Russia Relations »

Re-charting U.S.-Russia Relations

The reset in U.S.-Russia relations has been launched, but its likelihood of success will depend on a mutual understanding of each other’s motives....

Feb 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »

USA and USSR: Accidental Parallels? »

USA and USSR: Accidental Parallels?

Over the past decade, China has continued to make economic gains in Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, Syria and Afghanistan, while the United States occupies, sanctions...

Feb 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Social Security Will Fall To Obama Before The Taliban Do »

Social Security Will Fall To Obama Before The Taliban Do

Today Social Security revenues are being used to fund trillion dollar bailouts for Wall Street and to fund the Bush/Obama wars of aggression against...

Feb 22 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
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News

Yemen in focus »

Yemen in focus

Though the only republic in a monarchist Arabian peninsula, Yemen has never seen proper functioning of democratic institutions and has always faced foreign interference that lead to civil strife and collapse of a viable economy....

Mar 6 2010 / 9 comments / Read More »

The My Lai Massacre – Vietnam’s Holocaust »

The My Lai Massacre – Vietnam’s Holocaust

On March 16, 1968, 504 village civilians were slaughtered by members of the U.S. Army’s Charlie Company, because of alleged sympathies with the Viet Cong (VC)....

Feb 24 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

America’s First Suicide Bomber »

America’s First Suicide Bomber

Joseph Stack, frustrated American, flew his airplane into an Austin, Texas, office building. He was one of the 79 percent of Americans who have given up on “their” government....

Feb 23 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Hate 2.0 »

Hate 2.0

False stories and hateful opinions about Muslims abound on the Internet and have begun to appear prominently in the mainstream discourse, say American Muslims and groups that monitor the media....

Feb 22 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Arts & Culture

Book Review: Golden Leaf – A Khmer Rouge Genocide Survivor »

Book Review: Golden Leaf – A Khmer Rouge Genocide SurvivorGolden Leaf wonderfully depicts the struggles and subsequent victories of a remarkable human being, and will inspire readers because it reaches deep into our souls....

Feb 17 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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 »
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Economy

Is The Recovery Real?

Is The Recovery Real?

If the Federal Reserve has to monetize the federal deficit, the world will turn its back on a rapidly depreciating dollar....

Mar 3, 2010 / More »

United States

Paraguay, Honduras and Barack Obama

Paraguay, Honduras and Barack Obama

During his campaign for the presidency of Paraguay, former bishop Fernando Lugo promised to bring health care to the millions unable to afford it....

Mar 10, 2010 / More »

Israel / Palestine

An Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder

An Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder

The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assassins in the supposed safety of a sovereign country....

Mar 11, 2010 / More »

Afghanistan

Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: And the Agony Grinds On

Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: And the Agony Grinds On

Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan....

Mar 4, 2010 / More »

Pakistan

India-Pakistan Dialogue: The Way Forward

India-Pakistan Dialogue: The Way Forward

A terrorist bombing of a bakery in Pune resulting in 14 dead greeted the announcement that the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan are to meet at New Delhi on 25 February 2010....

Feb 22, 2010 / More »

Iran

Néjàd Vu, All Over Again: The Media, ‘Pretext’, Context, & 9/11

Néjàd Vu, All Over Again: The Media, ‘Pretext’, Context, & 9/11

By misrepresenting the country of Iran, its people, its system of government, its culture, its religion, its elected and unelected leaders, the Western press has already set the stage for an attack on...

Mar 11, 2010 / More »

Iraq

The Rationale for Keeping U.S. Forces in Iraq

The Rationale for Keeping U.S. Forces in Iraq

With the deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of next year creeping nearer, the U.S. has to find some way to convince the Iraqi government to allow...

Feb 25, 2010 / More »

Burma

American Sentenced to Three Years by Burma’s Military Junta

American Sentenced to Three Years by Burma’s Military Junta

A Burmese court sentenced American democracy activist Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also know as Nyi Nyi Aung, to three years imprisonment in Rangoon on February 10....

Feb 17, 2010 / More »
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