By Stephen Lendman Despite genuine popular Middle East/North Africa uprisings, Washington’s dirty hands orchestrated regime change plans in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria as part of its “New Middle East” project. Share on Facebook
By Gaither Stewart (ROME) Standard dictionary definitions of the word of ancient Greek origin, mimesis, relate the word to imitation, representation, mimicry, similarity, the act of resembling and of expression. Today, mimesis has more to do with literary and societal functions. Share on Facebook
By Ramzy Baroud The brutality of Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi, and his refusal to concede power, is costing Libya much more than innocent lives. The country is now also facing a possible loss of future independence and sovereignty. From its early days, the Libyan revolt seemed to take a difference course than those of other [...]
By Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed police state terror in Bahrain, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/police-state-terror-in-bahrain.html Saying sporadic protests began last summer, major ones began for regime change on February 14, the tenth anniversary of the public referendum on the Bahrain National Action Charter – a monarchy reform initiative to end years of [...]
By Stephen Lendman In her book titled “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” Michelle Alexander cites Martin Luther King in 1968 highlighting the need to shift from civil to human rights advocacy, saying initiatives for it just began. In fact, it’s truer now than then with Blacks and Hispanics comprising [...]
By Phil Rockstroh Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure’s exterior often possesses little correlation to its interior function, media age journalistic and political style exhibits a similar disparity between facade and content: The political content aired by mass media institutions and the cant of the governmental class are the political [...]
By Stephen Lendman Several April 20 Haaretz reports explain efforts for Palestinian independence, including dozens of Israeli intellectuals and public figures endorsing it. On April 21 at 2PM, they’ll read a statement in front of Tel Aviv’s Independence Hall (where Ben-Gurion) declared Israel’s statehood in May 1948) headlined: “ISRAELI INTELLECTUALS WELCOME AND ENDORSE AN INDEPENDENT [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… As the United States morphs into a failed state, one unwilling and soon perhaps, unable, to provide for the common good even as it hands over trillions of dollars to a gang of financial brigands engorged like parasitic ticks on the wealth of others, keeping the lid on is more [...]
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