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The Wolf Who Cried Wolf

The Wolf Who Cried Wolf: Charging Anti-Semitism and Extending the Iron Wall, by M. Junaid Alam CounterPunch http://www.counterpunch.org/jalam1026.html Junaid Alam is a student at Northeastern University. In this article written for CounterPunch magazine, Alam exposes the tactics of the pro-Israeli lobby who he says are

Dignity is earned, not given - By Reem Mohammed Al-Faisal

I have been silent for a few months, tired of returning to the same old issues in my articles and despairing of ever finding any echoes of hope. It is very debilitating mentally when you see that everything we say or do in the Arab and Muslim world comes to

Iraq is not the Real Target - courtesy Al-Ahram

Bush says Iraq is a threat. Arab leaders warn of chaos in the region in the event of a strike against the Gulf country. Heikal says something else altogether. Amira Howeidy listened in. Despite US President George W Bush’s attempts, including his speech on Monday, to convince the American

The Social Wars (courtesy Le Monde Diplomatique)

Ignacio Ramonet is Editor of the prestigious French publication, “Le Monde Diplomatique.” In this op-ed piece for LeMonde, Ramonet debunks conventional wisdom that since 9/11, a new kind of violence is sweeping the planet. The French writer claims that compared to the last 25 years “almost all the radical

Islam attracts Rwanda survivors (courtesy MSNBC)

RUHENGERI, Rwanda, Sept. 23 – The villagers with their forest green head wraps and forest green Korans arrived at the mosque on a rainy Sunday afternoon for a lecture for new converts. There was one main topic: jihad. THEY FOUND their seats and flipped to the right page. Hands flew in

Bush: U.S. strikes first from now on (courtesy MSNBC.com)

Defining a sad turn in World History, the US government has spelled out what we have feared for so long. Read on — WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 – Discarding fundamental principles that dominated U.S. foreign policy for more than half a century, President Bush declared a new military doctrine Friday that shifts

Waiting for the barbarians (Morris Berman courtesy The Guardian)

A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America — Saturday October 6, 2001 –The Guardian When I wrote my recent book, The Twilight of American Culture, my focus was on what might be called “inner” barbarism, the structural factors endemic

Foreign Investors Turning Cautious on Spending in U.S.

Foreign investors, who once joined with confident Americans in a wave of spectacular acquisitions and business spending that helped power the 1990’s economic boom, are now turning cautious about the United States economy. That is compounding the current weakness and making it harder to achieve a robust recovery from

S. Africa Buries Remains of 'Sarah'

With a solemn burial ceremony Friday, South Africa sought to restore dignity to an indigenous woman who had been displayed like a circus freak in Europe two centuries ago. Saartjie Baartman, an indigenous Khoisan, known as Sarah, died in 1816, was treated as a circus animal by the English, Dutch

U.S. Ties Military Aid to Peacekeepers' Immunity

The Bush administration, making use of a provision of the new antiterrorism law, warned foreign diplomats this week that their nations could lose all American military assistance if they became members of the International Criminal Court without pledging to protect Americans serving in their countries from its reach. The threat

No moral equivalence - the failure of words

**How dare the boy be angry! – courtesy AP — **War is not war. Occupation is not occupation. Terrorizing millions of civilians for political objectives is not terrorism. When words are hijacked, brutalized, twisted and bent into strange shapes, they will come back to fall on those that erect them. There is

April 20, 2002 - March on Ottawa

20 April 2002 – March on Ottawa -11 a.m. – Parliament Hill More than 200 anti-war organizations in the U.S. are going to march on Washington April 20th. Canadians have more at stake. Our very identity and values are at stake as our government blindly follows a belligerent power with

MS Windows, the FBI and Open Source

MSNBC – Nov. 20, 2001 The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect’s machine and obtaining encryption keys, a source familiar with the project told MSNBC.com. The software, known as "Magic Lantern," enables agents to read data that had been scrambled,

Israeli Army Chief to Punish Conscientious Objectors

Israel’s army chief indicated tough action would be taken against a group of reserve soldiers and officers who refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, saying Friday that their refusal is an incitement to rebellion. Last week, 52 reservists from front-line combat units published a petition

The many US definition of war

There is a war on “terrorism” going on. The US congress has not declared war! And when those whom the US attacks defend themselves, they are “unlawful combatants.” If the US arrests them, they are not prisoners of war. What is this Orwellian nightmare?

Picket Outside The Waldorf , Barbara Garson

The WEF (World Economic Forum is meeting at the Waldorf in New York from Jan 31 to Feb 5. Barbara Garson adds some perspective on why some decisions made there will force other people to drink unhealthy water. I own shares in a few companies that are members of the

Hampshire College Condemns War

Hampshire College Condemns War in All-Community Vote: Amherst, MA – The students, faculty, and staff of Hampshire College have voted to condemn the “War on Terrorism” and propose alternative solutions. The vote, which was won by a margin of 693-121 (with 11 abstaining or ambiguous votes), is believed to the first

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Nothing Happened -- Parry

America says “Nothing Happened” Richard Parry The village where nothing happened is reached by a steep climb at the end of a rattling three-hour drive along a stony road. Until nothing happened here, early on the morning of Saturday and again the following day, it was a large village with

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Federal Bureau of Intimidation

Federal Bureau of Intimidation by Howard Zinn I thought it would be good to talk about the FBI because they talk about us. They don’t like to be talked about. They don’t even like the fact that you’re listening to them being talked about. They are very

Clash of un-Civilizations

This is not a parody of Prof. Samuel P. Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations” , however, there is a certain reason for naming this article as such. And it becomes obvious to the reader as he goes through the following lines. Readers are also encouraged to draw their own conclusions.

Shameful Secret - Review

Subject: Body of Secrets / James Bamford ‘THE USS LIBERTY:’ AMERICA’S MOST SHAMEFUL SECRET On the fourth day of the 1967 Arab Israeli War, the intelligence ship ‘USS Liberty’ was steaming slowly in international waters, 14 miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli armored forces were racing deep into Sinai in

Bin Laden's statement (English translation)

In the interest of free speech, this is the English translation of bin Laden’s statement which was released by Al-Jazeera network on the 27th of December, 2001, but never reported by the mainstream media. Care has been taken to preserve the original meaning while not translating Arabic idiom word-for-word.

Did the US go to war for oil? Yes and No, Eric Margolis

Did the US go to war with Afghanistan for Central Asian oil and gas? That’s what many readers keep asking me. They clearly distrust the White Houses jingoistic bombast about defending freedom and western values from evil Islamists. The answer: no and yes. The US attacked Afghanistan to exact

The Holy Alliance its Danger

At the reception desk of the War-Against-Terror Coalition, there lies an application form for new partners. After stating his name, country and function (king / president / emir / dictator / tyrant), the applicant is invited to answer the question: “Do you have local opponents that you wish to have branded as terrorists and