Opinion Commentary
What if Israel Was the Victim?
January 6, 2009
What if the roles of Israel, Gaza, and members of the international community in the ongoing conflict were reversed? How would Americans and their government respond? Try this thought experiment and draw your own conclusions.
Opinion Commentary
Bill Richardson - Kissinger-American
January 6, 2009
In New Mexico the issue of uncounted votes is more than skin deep. Lots of Mexican-American votes don’t tally, but Citibank-American votes never get lost. Kissinger American votes always count.
News Analysis: India / Pakistan: Mumbai Attacks
The CIA-ISI axis - India should have no illusions of US support
January 6, 2009
While India seeks to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage to book, there should be no illusions about the degree to which other nations will whole-heartedly support the Indian expectation from Islamabad.
Israel / Palestine
Top 5 Lies About Israel’s Assault on Gaza
January 3, 2009
There are numerous lies being propagated by the Western corporate media about the nature of the present violence being perpetrated against the people of the Gaza Strip by the state of Israel.
Opinion Commentary
January 3, 2009
"The Anti-Empire Report" by William Blum, on Afghanistan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Barack Obama, Cuba, and the Cold War.
Opinion
What Would Swayze Do?
November 11, 2008
In the
classic 1989 film, Roadhouse, thespian Patrick Swayze inhabits
the role of James Dalton, head bouncer at a seedy establishment called
the Double Deuce Club. Dalton is armed with a PhD in philosophy from New
York University and his three rules of bouncing:
1. Never underestimate your opponent
2. Take it outside
3. Be nice until it's time to not be nice
Note to those striving for enduring social
change: It's time to not be nice.
Being nice got us a nation that pats itself on the back for its freedom and democracy while relegating most of its citizenry to a life of debt, a life without sufficient health insurance, a life of wiretapping and color-coded terror warnings, a life of undrinkable water, polluted air, and inedible food (sic), etc.
Being nice means the US constitutes less than 5% of the world’s human population but is home to 25% of the world’s prison population. Being nice means US women are paid 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. Being nice got us believing that coal is clean, nukes are green, and we must vote for Barack ‘cause the Republicans are mean.
Yeah, being nice resulted in the Legend of Barack Obama™—the most remarkable example of programming and conditioning since the yellow ribbon sticker—while those who refused to guzzle the Obama Kool Aid™ are shoved off to the far corners of Left World.
But, rest assured, as Swayze promises: “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.”
Mickey Z. is a self-educated writer,
personal trainer, martial artist, and vegan who lectures on US foreign
policy at MIT in his spare time. He has appeared in martial arts films
and was known as the Underground Poet for hanging his poetry in the NYC
subway. He is the author of
numerous books,
including, most recently, "CPR for Dummies" and "No Innocent
Bystanders". He lives with his wife Michele in New York City. You can contact him
here. Visit him on
the web at Mickeyz.net.
