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Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning

The US President and other misguided Democrats are hell bent on preventing the bemedaled Petraeus, a likely Republican candidate for President in 2012, from painting them soft on terrorism. Letting Petraeus run the policy, while avoiding any critical intelligence analysis, is Obama’s safe — and cowardly — way out, says Ray McGovern...

Britain's Iraq War Inquiry

Martin Gilbert should understand why the British public should be worried that an active supporter of Israel on the Iraq Inquiry might not be impartial or rigorous in scrutinizing the conduct of those who launched the aggression against Iraq at the behest of pro-Israel activists like himself, notes Nureddin Sabir...

Remembering Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a true American progressive whose life, teachings, and writings will continue to inspire generations. On matters of war and peace, he was absolute. When he spoke of war, he knew what he was talking about, notes Elizabeth DiNovella...

Saudi Arabia vs. The Houthis

The senseless war in Saada waged by the Saudi government was thus meant to send an unmistakable warning to any in the Kingdom who might espouse similar beliefs or demands as the Houthis: do so at your own peril, notes Rannie Amiri...

The Supreme Court's Partisanship

Over the past several decades, the American Right has assembled such an array of political weaponry – ranging from a vast propaganda apparatus that defines 'reality' for tens of millions of Americans to specialized attack groups that can target troublesome figures in the press or academia – that it’s hard to envision how this powerful grip on US democracy can now be broken, notes Robert Parry...

What's Wrong with US Intel Agencies

Previous CIA failures regarding the unanticipated decline and fall of the Soviet Union, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the run-up to the Iraq War demonstrate a $75 billion intelligence enterprise that can provide neither strategic nor tactical warning to policymakers and is reluctant to provide uncomfortable truth to power, notes Melvin A. Goodman...

It’s Not a New Turkey, It’s The Right Time

Turkey will find a very receptive audience among Arabs and Muslims all over the world who are desperate for a powerful and sensible leadership to defend and champion their causes. Needless to say, for the besieged Palestinians in Gaza, Erdogan is becoming a household name, a folk hero, notes Ramzy Baroud...

Obama’s Secret Prisons

This process has become even more feared and hated in Afghanistan than coalition airstrikes. The night raids and detentions, little known or understood outside of these Pashtun villages, are slowly turning Afghans against the very forces they greeted as liberators just a few years ago, notes Anand Gopal...

Haiti's Finest Hour

The usual self-congratulatory reporting about American generosity and the importance of American troops (they secured the airport!) went on in a situation in which aid was visibly not getting through, in which people were not being saved. The real story was the remarkable patience and altruistic willingness of Haitians to support each other and organize each other in a situation where there was almost nothing to share...

Iran and Latin America: The Media States Its Case

Why is the media most concerned by Iran’s ‘suspicious’ behavior in Latin America, despite the fact that its presence is welcomed by various countries in the hemisphere, while Israel - whose bloody involvement has wrought much chaos to South America - is simply unquestioned? Israel’s own history in Latin America seems to inspire little commentary by the ever-vigilant ‘many analysts’...

Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster

Why were so many people in Haiti hungry before the earthquake? Why do we have a planet that produces enough food for all and a distribution system that ensures more than a billion of us don’t have a decent share of that bounty? We need compassion for the sufferers in Haiti and media that tell the truth about them...

Hiding War Horrors from Americans

Loss of objectivity could be seen in the wave of patriotism that swept through media coverage, Pulaski wrote. FAIR found that only 10 percent of news sources interviewed were opposed to the war and that criticism of military planning was rare...

The Haiti Haters

There’s something that annoys about Haiti -- especially among those who know little about the country. The Haitian tragedy has opened up a whole new industry for what could be called the genteel racist point of view...

Sudan Needs International Action

The West has tended to back the southerners, while China has armed and backed the Khartoum government. That is why a United States-China entente may be the only way to prevent Sudan collapsing once more into a war, which neither side can win, notes Patrick Seale...

Beware of the BBC

People are complaining bitterly to the BBC about its pro-Israel stance when reporting on the situation in the Holy Land. The BBC nowadays is careless with the truth when handling news from the Palestinian territories illegally occupied by Israel - the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, notes Stuart Littlewood...

One Deluded Man Does Not Make an Extremists’ Hotbed

We should have a pause, before we give al Qaeda cause to chuckle in their caves,..

Yemen – The New Enemy

Already, the direct costs of the last attacks on the Yemenis’ mud or rough stone houses have cost the Saudis and US millions of pounds. We will also take counter-..

Blowback Effect

Our two wars have been sucking us dry in two countries where state-owned Chinese companies have just scored significant economic victories...

For Israel, was 2009 Just the Calm before the Storm?

Israeli society takes comfort in military dominance,..

Reagan’s Ghost: Starwars Stops START

The proliferation of nuclear states since 1960s merely reinforces this mutual assured destruction logic...