HURSDAY 26, APRIL 2012 Afghanistan, Pakistan and the post 9/11 war economy Dear all, The post 9/11 world has created a vibrant and highly profitable war economy. Countless corporations in the West and beyond saw a unique opportunity to support American designs in the “war on terror”. This has created [...]
Three Books to Stimulate Thought By Paul Craig Roberts http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=17405 January 11 was the tenth anniversary of amerika’s Guantanamo torture prison. National Public Radio commemorated the anniversary by airing critics and defenders of Washington’s violation of US statutory law, the Geneva Conventions, and the US Constitution. Listening to the former [...]
Tides of Darkness by Nebojsa Malic, January 07, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum January 6, 2012More War in 2012 Last year was supposed to be the one of shattered illusions. From “victories” in Iraq and Afghanistan to the springtime for jihad – not democracy – in the Arab world, the Empire consistently failed to [...]
New critics of Israel: Roger Cohen, left, of New York Times; Paul Pillar of the CIA. (Credit: Reuters/AP) TOPICS:ISRAEL, AIPAC The media consensus on Israel is collapsing Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common BY JORDAN MICHAEL SMITH With Hamas and Fatah meeting this week in Cairo, reconciliation between the rival Palestinian political parties is likely only [...]
AP / Keystone / Peter Schneider By Robert Scheer Few journalists have greater influence on U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East, than New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. But his tortured obit of a column this week on the official end of the neocolonialist disaster that has been the Iraq occupation reminds one that [...]
It’s now clear that the Republican frontrunner in the race for the White House is Israeli Prime MinisterNetanyahu. Officially the two Republican frontrunners are Newt “the Palestinians are an invented people” Gingrich andMitt ”Obama has pushed Israel under a bus” Romney. Both are political whores locked in a competition of their own as well as with President Obama for Zionist lobby organized campaign funds and [...]
Imran Khan: Pakistan‘s next leader? The cricketer-turned-politician discusses the fight against corruption and violence in Pakistan. video interview at http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/frostovertheworld/2011/12/20111210942346106.html For years his political ambitions have been overshadowed by his cricket career. Now, his popularity as a politician has suddenly increased massively and his message to get rid of corruption and to [...]
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
