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Last Updated: Oct 30th, 2006 - 02:18:15 |
Analysis
Bush confesses to war crimes
By Nicolas J S Davies
George W. Bush's speech on September 6 amounted
to a public confession to criminal violations of the 1996 War Crimes Act. He
implicitly admitted authorizing disappearances, extrajudicial imprisonment,
torture, transporting prisoners between countries and denying the International
Committee of the Red Cross access to prisoners.
Sep 11, 2006, 00:31
Analysis
Day of reckoning; America�s economic meltdown
By Mike Whitney
There�s growing
concern among economists and market-savvy pundits that the global financial
system is hanging by a few well-worn threads that could snap at any time.
Sep 11, 2006, 00:25
Analysis
9/11/2006: Bush's project for a Greater Middle East is in shambles
By Luciana Bohne
In Lebanon, Fouad
Siniora scorns as propaganda Olmert's claims that Siniora refuses to meet with
him.
Sep 7, 2006, 00:39
Analysis
This summer's failed peace initiative
By Anthony Newkirk
The State of Israel is in the midst of what the
Israeli press is calling a "two-front war" that began in Lebanon on
July 12 and, less noticeably to Western eyes, in Gaza two weeks earlier. This
war is not over in either country,
even though the UN Security Council unanimously voted for a kind of cease-fire
in Lebanon on August 12 and talks continue among Palestinian factions in Gaza.
Sep 5, 2006, 00:48
Analysis
Fear of terrorism is a moral panic
By
Jeffrey S. Victor, Ph.D.
The
terrorism scare is another moral panic, similar to many that have occurred in
the past. Social scientists call these society-wide scares, �moral panics,�
because they are founded upon fear of threats to society from immoral evildoers
of the worst kind.
Sep 5, 2006, 00:45
Analysis
Delusional democracy breeds delusional prosperity
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Contrary to popular
thinking, many revolutions have not occurred because of a widespread desire for
freedom or democracy. They have been driven by mass hatred and rejection of
economic inequality. The poor have revolted against the rich for eons. For much
of human history the lack of freedom was linked to economic inequality.
Sep 5, 2006, 00:41
Analysis
The day after: A reading into the post-Lebanon war
By
Ramzy Baroud
If it is true that the 33-day war on Lebanon was the
culmination of regional developments and that it can hardly be fathomed
separate from the brutal Israeli war on Gaza or the faltering American imperial
project in Iraq, then it is hardly inconsistent to ponder the implications of
the war�s outcome on the region as a whole, notwithstanding Lebanon.
Sep 1, 2006, 00:51
Analysis
Baluchistan and the coming war on Iran
By Luciana Bohne
Akhbar Khan, a
nationalist/independence leader in Baluchistan has recently been killed by the
Pakistani military, in a massive operation that is seriously destabilizing
military dictator Pervez Musharraf's regime [1].
Aug 31, 2006, 01:08
Analysis
In Lebanon, France converging to pre-mandate policy
By Nicola Nasser
In a pattern that
reminds of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement [1], France seems converging to a
role that belongs to its previous colonial era in Lebanon and Syria, in harmony
with, but under the regional hegemony of the United States� involvement in
other countries of the Arab Levant, in a stark departure from Charles de
Gaulle�s post-Algeria legacy.
Aug 31, 2006, 00:58
Analysis
The myth of Manifest Destiny, Take Two
By Rodrigue Tremblay
In March 1885, John Fiske wrote an essay for the
magazine Harper�s, called "Manifest Destiny," in which he contended
that the so-called "English race" was destined to dominate the entire
world during the coming 20th Century. Then, according to this hubristic theory,
there would be a millennium of peace and prosperity. However, it is the
expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined the famous
expression when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the
continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly
multiplying millions."
Aug 29, 2006, 01:23
Analysis
The unintended results of the New World Order
By Luciana Bohne
"It is a big idea: a new world order . . . only
the United States has both the moral standing and the means to back it
up," said George Bush the First on 29 January 1991.
Aug 28, 2006, 00:32
Analysis
AIPAC, the Religious Right and American foreign policy
By Rodrigue Tremblay
Nobody can understand what's going on politically in
the United States without being aware that a political coalition of major
pro-Likud groups, pro-Israel neoconservative intellectuals and Christian
Zionists is exerting a tremendously powerful influence on the American
government and its policies.
Aug 24, 2006, 00:39
Analysis
�Fear! Fear!,� Part Two -- New war unleashed from old plans: the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
By Brian Bogart
On ABC�s Nightline, Monday, August 14, former hostage
Jill Carroll recounted how the Iraqi insurgency was �like a family affair� what
are you gonna do, arrest them all, kill them all?�
Aug 22, 2006, 00:34
Analysis
Lebanon: A critical battle for the new Middle East
By Ramzy Baroud
Using the July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers --
whose unit had apparently crossed the Israeli border into Lebanon -- as a
pretext, the Bush administration quickly sprung into action: imagining yet a
new Middle East, where democracy and freedom reigns over militancy and
oppression.
Aug 21, 2006, 00:49
Analysis
Mad dog on a leash
By Sheila Samples
I have been stunned by many things on the US political
scene since I was jerked violently awake on Nov. 22, 1963. However, one thing
that simply flew under the cuckoo's nest of my awareness was the total
influence on our Congress; the control of our media, our courts, our
universities, our entire society -- even our religion -- by the state of
Israel. I had no idea.
Aug 16, 2006, 01:09
Analysis
Remembrance of terrors past
By Luciana Bohne
I am sure that we
will be reading illuminating detective work on the Heathrow liquid-bombs plot
very soon, exposing the holes in the official version -- detective work by journalistic
investigators with better resources and more expertise than I can muster.
However, in preparation for the revelations to come, I am going to focus on a
crash review of the relations between the paladins of the so-called "war
on terror," Britain and the US, with Pakistan and the Pakistani
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Aug 15, 2006, 01:12
Analysis
War crimes and responsibility of the Bush administration
By Rodrique Tremblay
Can a democracy turn fascist and militaristic? It sure
can, and that is the most severe threat a democracy can ever face.
Aug 9, 2006, 00:57
Analysis
The US's need to possess some context on Castro and Cuba
By Mickey Z.
One
day after the 24-gun battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana Bay, killing 268
U.S. sailors, the February 16, 1898, headline on William Randolph Hearst's New
York Journal blared: THE WARSHIP MAINE WAS SPLIT IN TWO BY AN ENEMY'S SECRET
INFERNAL MACHINE. The "enemy" was Spain-occupier of Cuba, Puerto
Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
Aug 9, 2006, 00:47
Analysis
Israel, oil and the "planned demolition" of Lebanon
By Mike Whitney
By bombing the highways and main bridges into Beirut,
Israel has cut off the capital from the outside world and put the entire nation
under siege. Israel can now execute its plan to pummel Lebanon into rubble
without the threat of foreign intervention.
Aug 8, 2006, 01:20
Analysis
Case of Iranian on death row raises reasonable doubt about U.S. justice -- part 4 of a 4-part series
By Bill Conroy
I
got hooked into this story by yet another twist in this mystery.
Aug 8, 2006, 00:53
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