I won't comment on the content of Angela Davis' speech at "Occupy Philadelphia": I just want to note the bizarre practice at these gatherings of repeating back the words of the speakers. The echo chamber effect is like something out of a horror movie, perhaps a remake...
The Nation's Robert Dreyfuss with one take on the potential for a US-Israeli attack on Iran: Needless to say, an Israeli attack on Iran would unleash catastrophic consequences, completely apart from whether or not Israel could actually do the job effectively. Whereas...
Antiwar.com columnist David Henderson will be speaking Saturday, November 5 at UC Berkeley: The Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy 3:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. East Pauley Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Building, sponsored by the Students...
The psycho dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, became notorious for boiling his detainees alive after torturing them brutally. Well, no it seems he's gone in the other direction. And just in time, too, for the Obama administration to fully embrace them with aid and...
Back in May I wrote about the coordinated US campaign of cyber-terrorism, commercial sabotage, targeted assassinations, and proxy wars against the Iranian regime. In other words, the list of acts of international aggression the US has more or less openly unleashed...
This Politico piece made me chuckle yesterday. After years of calling Iran the top supporter of terrorism around, the Ayatollah swung back saying "he had 100 'undeniable' documents connecting the US to terror acts in Iran and the Middle East." He then called the the...
Back in September I wrote about a State Department cable released by WikiLeaks in which a meeting with Israeli officials revealed that one of the primary reasons the Israeli government wants to block Palestinian statehood is to keep the occupied territories outside...
The Obama administration still denies is has anything to do with Kenya's violent invasion of Somalia, although it is known that US drone strikes have been pounding southern Somalia, which is of course assisting the Kenyans. Some believe them, but others are skeptical,...
I wrote recently about five Colombian soldiers accused of murdering two farmers, in the latest case of “false positive” killings, in which the US-supported Colombian army kill civilians and report them as combatants. One officer, two sub-officers, and two soldiers of...
This Reuters headline is "Libya's NTC struggles to stay the "good guys." The selection by the NTC of little known academic Abdurrahim El-Keib as interim prime minister on Monday also highlighted how mysterious the internal workings of the new ruling group can be to...
