Sami Jamil Jadallah – America does not get it!

Friday, March 12th, 2010

In the last few days I have been following the visits of both Vice President Joe Biden and Senator George Mitchell to the Middle East and the different and competing messages coming out of Washington, Ramallah, Tel-Aviv and Cairo the seat of the Arab League. Vice President Joe Biden is a ...

Brenda Heard – The Complex Business of Assassination

Friday, March 12th, 2010

WRITTEN BY BRENDA HEARD   Antonio Cassese, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), recently presented the First Annual Report on the operation and activities of the Tribunal during the period from 1 March 2009 to 28 February 2010.  With its remit to investigate the 14 February 2005 Beirut bombing ...

Zahir Ebrahim – Anatomy of Conspiracy Theory

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

WRITTEN BY ZAHIR EBRAHIM     Some may rationally ponder that how is it, that such a long running global conspiracy for world government as outlined in Project Humanbeingsfirst's report "The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy for World Government", can be kept alive across centuries and across geographies. This brief paper examines that question. Noam ...

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

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Despite a nearly endless barrage of reporting on Iran's nuclear energy program, the US government's push for a new round of sanctions, and on-going efforts to foment regime change in the Islamic Republic, all had been relatively quiet on the Ahmadinejad front in the Western press for some time. Until now. The ...

Antoine Raffoul – Full-Circle of The Waiting Game: Total Boycott Against Total Occupation

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Reading Rifat Kassis's Opinion: Moment of truth (e.i. 4 March 2010) we are inspired now to put a halt to the arguments that call for a selective boycott of Israel, and to those voices which warn us Palestinians (and many internationalists, for that matter) who criticise Israel for fear of ...

Khalil Nakhleh – How Must We Explain Our Century-old Struggle to a Foreign Audience?

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Personal reflections on my forthcoming lecture  Since the date for my new lecture became fixed, a few months back, at my alma mater university in the State of Minnesota, USA, where I received my first 4 years of higher education, and earned my Bachelor’s degree, I was in a quandary.  Certainly, ...

Qais Nawwaf – Roberts Owes Iraqi People an Apology

Friday, March 5th, 2010

From Dissident Voice As an Iraqi, I took serious offense to Paul Craig Roberts’ patronizing article, “Muslim Disunity: A Religion Divided Among Itself,” in Counterpunch, March 2, 2010. Roberts audaciously states that the “reason Americans are still in Iraq is because the Iraqis hate each other more than they hate the ...

Israel, Yemen, the Gold Watch and Everything!

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

WRITTEN BY Keith Johnson The fingerprints of Israel’s meddling are all over the place in Yemen. And you better believe that we’ll be hearing a lot more about Yemeni connections to all manner of atrocities committed in the name of “Allah” against the United States. Israel will make darn sure of ...

Hail to the Prince: Obama, the paradigmatic Machiavellian Leader

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Prince Obama by Edna Spennato A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. Nicolò Machiavelli Obama, before he actually “did” anything, had a reputation. And, indeed, reputation – what others think you are, and not what you actually are – is a crucial factor in a public figure. A political leader, ...

Hail to the Prince: Obama, the paradigmatic Machiavellian Leader

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Prince Obama by Edna Spennato A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. Nicolò Machiavelli Obama, before he actually “did” anything, had a reputation. And, indeed, reputation – what others think you are, and not what you actually are – is a crucial factor in a public figure. A political leader, ...