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The Right Gets Itself 'Wired'

Americans are drenched in right-wing messaging, which stresses that the enemy is Big Government, not Big Business. The anti-government propaganda seeks to make sure that no meaningful restrictions will be placed on the power of corporations to hold sway over the lives of average citizens, notes Robert Parry...

Gaza and Lebanon: Beware the Iron Wall, the Coming War

Will it be Gaza or Lebanon first? Israel is sending mixed messages, and deliberately so. Hamas, Hezbollah and their supporters understand well the Israeli tactic and must be preparing for the various possibilities. They know Israel cannot live without its iron walls, and are determined to prevent any more from being built at their expense, notes Ramzy Baroud...

The Divisive Role of the 'Resistance Bloc'

The rhetoric of Hamas, Hezbollah is reminiscent of the 1970s PLO and is repeated within another mini-state that is not taking Lebanese interests much into consideration, says Bechara Nassar Charbel...

British Media Portrayals of Yemen

Until very recently, only Mauritania among the Arab countries attracted less attention in the British media than Yemen. Not any more: since 25 December 2009, Yemen is mentioned more than any other Arab country except Iraq, with the subsequent month seeing greater media interest than the entire previous year, notes Guy Gabriel...

When Scholars Join the Slaughter

Anthropology has been referred to throughout history as the 'handmaiden of colonialism', thus putting anthropologists (today), at least those with a moral conscience, on guard against anything that smells like exploitation or oppression of their subjects. But US HTS anthropologists have thrown ethical guidelines out the window in Iraq and Afghanistan, notes Dahr Jamail...

What Do Iraqis Want?

Instead of curtailing Iraqi independent action and constantly interfering and dictating Iraqi politics, the Obama administration must respect the Iraqis’ quest for liberty and freedom, says Abbas J. Ali...

The Litmus Test for the Legality of Iraq War

The future generation of Iraqis may see that the British population have a heart, not just the millions who marched against the war, but the vast majority disagree with this arrogant and heartless war criminal, and they have tried to do some justice, says Yamin Zakaria...

A Bad Spell of Big Power Behavior

The worst moment of the week was the sight of the snake-like Tony Blair once again showing us how otherwise intelligent, articulate leaders can also comfortably splash around in the underbrush of human deceit and political arrogance, notes Rami G. Khouri...

The Iraqi Oil Conundrum

Almost seven years later, it will come as little surprise that things turned out to cost a bit more than expected in Iraq and didn’t work out exactly as imagined. As with so much else, when it comes to Iraqi oil, the American war has generated so many problems and catastrophes -- and so few answers, notes Michael Schwartz...

With Blair-Bush Lies, Muslims Died

From the Native Americans, North and South, to Africans, Arabs, Muslims, Asians, and the Aborigines of Australia and New Zealand, their lives, history, religion, culture and language were fodder for extinction to satisfy the economic greed of western powers, notes Mohamed Khodr...

British Citizen vs. IDF Guard

One would expect the Foreign Secretary to care primarily about British citizens (in Somalia) rather than foreign (Israeli) soldiers who maintain an illegal occupation and the starvation of millions (of Palestinians), notes Gilad Atzmon...

The Currency Issue

The present currency crisis provides a natural environment for a new formula to conduct financial transactions that could deal with the status of globalisation without subjecting this globalisation to one country’s economic or currency status. Allowing one currency to dominate global transactions means subjecting world economies to the status of that currency, says Yousuf Baadarani...

America's Sorry History with Haiti

There is another kind of aid that the people of Haiti need that isn’t being talked about. They need us to understand their real history, their culture and their potential. They need us to stop patronizing them and interfering with their progress so they can realize the freedom they are still seeking two centuries after officially casting off the shackles of slavery, notes Lisa Pease...

Blair Survives Iraq Inquiry

Blair today is seen for what he really is. Instead of showing contrition and apologizing for the countless dead, maimed and homeless resulting from his reckless beliefs and lack of 'due diligence', he continues on the war path. Who is he working for now? Certainly not Britain’s best interests, notes Stuart Littlewood...

Talking to the Taliban

The new Afghan strategy marks a fresh start but great obstacles to a peaceful settlement - and no doubt a lot more fighting - still lie ahead, says Patrick Seale...

Arab Society and Men with Guns

Why it is that every time civil society and NGO activists launch a new initiative or organization, they must first get permission to do so from the men with guns who hold power in our region? Asks Rami G. Khouri...

How the Pentagon Counts Coups in Washington

The US president’s team estimates savings of $250 billion over 10 years. On the other hand, the National Priorities Project has done some sober figuring, based on projections from the Office of Management and Budget, and finds that, over the same decade, the total increase in the Pentagon budget should come to $522 billion, notes Tom Engelhardt...

America's Sad History with Haiti

Had America let Aristide run his country, without interfering, the suffering in Haiti would have been greatly lessened. If Washington had let them have their loans for health care, infrastructure, and clean water, there might not be the degree of suffering that we are witnessing in Haiti today, notes Lisa Pease...

The Merchants of Fear

In order to exploit that resource to the full, Israel needed the likes of Chertoff, Lieberman, Schumer and Specter to hype the concept of 'homeland security' in the United States. Americans, however, should have been asking a couple of pertinent questions. Which homeland? And whose security? Asks Maidhc O Cathail..

Howard Zinn's 'War on Terror' Critique

The historian pointed out that even if the US experienced few battle casualties in its invasion of Iraq, casualties would mount afterwards in the occupying army from sickness and trauma. In the 10 years after the Gulf War, 8,000 veterans died and 200,000 veterans filed complaints about illnesses incurred 'from the weapons our government used in the war', notes Sherwood Ross...