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An 8-year war built on lies: But when did the lying begin?

We will soon see the eighth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.  That anniversary should remind us that the Iraq war has claimed many lives and permanently damaged many…

A Government Shut-down Imperils the Power of Congress

Congress should think twice before forcing a government shutdown as the consequences could be the loss of the power of Congress to control spending through authorization and appropriation bills. Congress…

Twitterers of the World Revolution: The Digital New-New Left

An enlightening article by Tony Cartalucci,[1] entitled “Google’s Revolution Factory – Alliance of Youth Movements: Color Revolution 2.0,” has been published by Global Research.[2] Here Cartalucci focuses on the Alliance…

Southern Sudanese Independence

Voters in the January referendum in Southern Sudan overwhelmingly endorsed secession for that region with the new state scheduled to come into existence on July 9th this year.  The vote,…

Barak, ‘Bullahs,’ Blackwater, Bounties & the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)

BEIRUT — When the US marines were in and out of Lebanon in 1983-1984 some of those I met, when visiting their barracks with American journalist Janet Stevens, to discuss…

It’s Well Past Time to Start Taking Peak Oil Seriously

Michael Lind writes a top-9 list of “most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy” under the headline “So Long, Chicken Little” in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, with…

Monetization: An Impractical Policy

Very few images are more disturbing than the wide-eyed child, covered with flies and belly swollen from malnutrition. This is as it should be. The United Nations estimates that a…

Mainstreaming R2P in the Middle East: Opportunities and Challenges

Summary Institutionalizing Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the bureaucratic structure of Middle Eastern states faces two major, intertwined problems: first, the ‘state’ in the context of Middle East, not withstanding…

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