Resurrecting Insurrection

By William Hathaway Endless war … endless despair. The USA finally elects a leader who pledges to bring peace, and he morphs before our incredulous eyes into a war president. We’re still killing thousands of people, manipulating other nations, developing new nuclear bombs, forcing our financial will around the world, and jailing dissenters at home. [...]

A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs

By Ramzy Baroud A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a political or economic sense– it is, in fact, shifting the very self-definition of what it means to be Arab, both individually and collectively.

All-American Decline in a New World

By Tom Englehardt. Republished from FPIF. This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91. For those with longer memories, perhaps 1968 might come to mind, that abortive moment when, in the United States, France, Germany, [...]

U.S. Human Rights Policy is Self-serving and Duplicitous: George Katsiaficas

Interview by Kourosh Ziabari George Katsiaficas is a renowned university professor, sociologist, author and activist. He is a visiting American Professor of Humanities and Sociology at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea where he teaches and does research on the 1980s and 1990s East Asian uprisings.

‘From the Gulf to the Ocean’: The Middle East is Changing

By Ramzy Baroud  Now that the Egyptian people have finally wrestled their freedom from the hands of a very stubborn regime, accolades to the revolution are pouring in from all directions. Even those who initially sided with Hosni Mubarak’s regime, or favored a neutral position, have now changed their tune. “Arabs celebrate from the Gulf [...]

Divide, Supress, and Rule

By Gui Rochat  With Patrice Greanville As usual, the reality of events in the Middle East is not what the mainstream media may be presenting. What has not been sufficiently recognized about the Egyptian and other uprisings is that the US government will exercise any effort openly or stealthily (its preferred mode) against any revolt [...]

Hurriya is Arabic for Freedom: Just Listen to Egypt Roar

By Ramzy Baroud cross-posted from The Palestine Chronicle. ‘Just listen to that roar,’ urged a CNN correspondent in Egypt, as thousands of Egyptian protesters charged, fists pumped, against hundreds of armed Egyptian security forces. What a roar it was, indeed. The protests have shown the world that Arabs are capable of much more than merely [...]

The fear of “Nile fever” in China

By John Chan. Cross-posted with the World Socialist Web Site.  The scenes of mass protests of Egyptian workers and youth in Cairo demanding democratic rights and decent living standards have obviously been a chilling reminder to the Chinese regime of the events two decades ago in Tiananmen Square. Fearful that the revolutionary disease might spread [...]

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