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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:50:44 |
Analysis
Will the Corporate Supremes now dance on democracy’s corpse?
By Harvey Wasserman
The Four Courtsmen of the Apocalypse are poised
to finally bury American democracy in corporate money. The most powerful
institution in human history -- the global corporation -- may soon take
definitive possession of our electoral process.
Sep 16, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
The ‘Axis of Evil’ and the ‘Great Satan’
By Deepak Tripathi
Spoken two decades apart, these words sum up the
troubled history of the relationship between Iran and the United States. The
German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, once said, “There are no facts, only
interpretations.” His observation holds true about the manner in which Tehran
and Washington remain preoccupied with each other.
Sep 11, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
A fresh approach in Afghanistan: An end to war?
By Ramzy Baroud
Left out of the options under consideration in “Obama’s
war” is the only one with any chance of success.
Sep 11, 2009, 00:13
Analysis
Taking down a nation: Money, murder and national sovereignty
By Nikki Alexander
If you wanted to destroy the infrastructure that
holds our constitutional republic in place, how would you go about that? As
with a controlled demolition you would need to dislodge the foundation from the
bedrock where it is anchored and weaken the framework that holds the structure
together. In practice, you would demolish the laws that support the legal and
financial structure. Our constitutional republic would then collapse into its
own footprint, meeting no resistance.
Sep 7, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
US audacity of hope falters: Settlement freeze no longer required
By Ramzy Baroud
The US has decided to be ‘flexible’ regarding
its once touted call for a total Israeli freeze on the expansion of its
occupied territories’ settlements, all illegal under international law.
Sep 4, 2009, 00:19
Analysis
There is no such thing as liberal fascism
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
Recent letters to the Duluth News-Tribune
editor have accused earlier letter writers of not knowing their
history. The letter writer of August 19 also alluded to a book
entitled Liberal Fascism, which
is one of the recent American right-wing Rovian/Limbaughesque efforts to
distract attention from the legitimate, obvious and overwhelming
similarities between the far right-wing politics of the current Republican
Party and the far right-wing politics of World II-era Italy and
Germany (and Japan, for that matter). That letter-writer needs to go
back to the history books himself and learn about the history of European
fascism -- which is very good advice for the rest of us as well.
Sep 2, 2009, 00:24
Analysis
Rome falls while the sun shines
By Andrew McKillop
In the 20th century, world population nearly
quadrupled from around 1.55 billion to about 6 billion. Nobody in their right
mind today claims it could quadruple this century, to about 24 billion.
Population boomers are however still at work, most recently the newly
victorious Democratic Party of Japan, insisting that restoring or strengthening
population growth is vital for the nation and good for everybody. Above all,
population growth is claimed as good for ‘classic’ economic growth.
Sep 2, 2009, 00:22
Analysis
Why not crippling sanctions for Israel and the US?
By Paul Craig Roberts
In Israel, a country stolen from the
Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for “crippling sanctions” against
Iran.
Sep 1, 2009, 00:13
Analysis
Zionism: An ‘abnormal’ nationalism
By M.
Shahid Alam
Zionism is best described as an abnormal
nationalism. This singular fact has engendered a history of deepening conflicts
between Israel -- leading an alliance of Western states -- and the Islamicate
more generally.
Aug 31, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
Peak oil and climate change -- drowning in rhetoric
By Andrew McKillop
These are both long-running or even stalwart
themes of the late great consumer society. They only stretch back a decade or
so to some people, but a whole lot further when you drill down a little -- looking
for the right ice cores or pockets of remaining oil and gas. Today they provide
the base, or in finance jargon the underlying security for an endless
road show and conference business that stretches right around the world. Not
only thousands of Web sites, TV shows, press reporters and publishing houses
extract value from dwindling oil and changing climate, but big business and big
government have also adopted and absorbed these themes. Both big business and
big government now get plenty of traction from what some call the two Great
Causes of Our Times.
Aug 25, 2009, 00:44
Analysis
Reflecting on Iran’s presidential election
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
US and European corporate media, political
pundits and “Iran
experts” have spent countless hours discussing the June presidential election
in Iran.
Yet, they have utterly failed to ask a number of central questions that beg to
be asked.
Aug 24, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
The US and NATO seek to balkanize the Caucasus
By Eric Walberg
War clouds refuse to disperse a year after
Georgia waged war against Russia. On the anniversary of Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili’s ill-fated invasion of South Ossetia 8 August, Russian
President Dmitri Medvedev warned: “Georgia does not stop threatening to restore
its ‘territorial integrity’ by force. Armed forces are concentrated at the
borders near Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and provocations are committed,”
including renewed Georgian shelling of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali.
Aug 19, 2009, 00:27
Analysis
Fatah: A new beginning or an imminent end?
By Ramzy Baroud
This is hardly the rational order of things. An
overpowering military occupation was meant to be resisted by an equally
determined, focused and unyielding national movement, hell-bent on liberation
at any cost and by any means. This is the unwritten law that has governed and
shielded successful national liberation projects throughout history.
Aug 17, 2009, 00:15
Analysis
9/11 mind swell
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
As we approach the eighth anniversary of 9/11
consider this paradox. In the post 9-11 years, the scientific evidence for
disbelieving the official government story has mounted incredibly. And the
number of highly respected and credentialed professionals challenging the
official story has similarly expanded.
Aug 14, 2009, 00:24
Analysis
Why is the West wooing Damascus?
By Linda S. Heard
For a while there it looked as though the old
adage “All roads lead to Damascus” had become obsolete. The international
community turned its back on Syria during the post-2003 Bush era, when it was
variously perceived as a rogue state or even a low-hanging fruit, ripe for
invasion.
Aug 13, 2009, 00:14
Analysis
Spinning the economic news
By Paul Craig Roberts
Last Friday, a Bloomberg.com headline read: “U.S. Stocks Gain, Treasuries Drop as
Unemployment Rate Declines.”
Aug 13, 2009, 00:12
Analysis
The expiring economy
By Paul Craig Roberts
Tent
cities springing up all over America are filling with the homeless
unemployed from the worst economy since the 1930s. While Americans live in
tents, the Obama government has embarked on a $1 billion crash program to build a
mega-embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, to rival the one the Bush government built in Baghdad, Iraq.
Aug 7, 2009, 00:18
Analysis
The Obama opiate -- crisis deepens, crowds cheer
By Larry Chin
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack
Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up
the murderous imperial
agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived
by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.
Aug 3, 2009, 00:46
Analysis
Nothing in sight to replace the US dollar as an international reserve currency
By Rodrigue
Tremblay
Presently,
there is a vacuum in international affairs stemming from the decline in the
moral and economic stature of the United States.
Aug 3, 2009, 00:44
Analysis
The Israeli conundrum: How to deal with Iran
By Ramzy Baroud
Israeli officials are facing a conundrum that
may take more than military muscle flexing to resolve. The problem is ‘how to
deal with Iran’. The solution to this dilemma will require no less than sheer
political genius.
Aug 3, 2009, 00:42
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