By Ramzy Baroud In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, “Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria.” [...]
From DemocracyNow – Senate Hearing and Comments from Jeremy Scahill. Telling is the enthusiasm of Lindsey Graham for perpetual war, and Senator Angus King’s (I Maine) horror at what he is hearing. A Pentagon official predicted Thursday the war against al-Qaeda and its affiliates could last up to 20 more years. The comment came during [...]
Review by Gary Corseri. A review of “America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy” by William Blum (Zed Books, London/New York, 2013.) [Graphic from Iran Review] In activist-author-publisher William Blum’s new book, America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy, he tells the story of how he got his 15 minutes of fame back in 2006. Osama bin Laden had released an [...]
By Dave Johnson. Originally published at Campaign: America’s Future Blog. What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American corporation? An article in the Wall Street Journal the other day should trigger questions like these. WSJ: Domestic-Based Multinationals Hiring Overseas, “Multinational companies based in the U.S. boosted their [...]
By Ellen Brown. Originally published at Web of Debt. Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, [...]
By Arun Shrivastava. Originally published at Global Research. Vile and crafty King Sisyphus, so the Greek myth goes, thought he was as smart as God. Zeus being smarter punished him to roll a boulder up the hill only to repentantly watch it roll down the other side. Since Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh and his [...]
By Beth Copeland. Republished from FPIF “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” -Shakespeare What do the howling hounds hear that we can’t? The moon sharpens its sword on the Earth’s stone. Palm trees on the shores of the Tigris stand sentinel, silently releasing sweet dioxide into nightscope green air. In the mountains [...]
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