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TSA Gestapo Empire

It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 told USA Today 16 days…

The Stench of American Hypocrisy, Part 2

In a recent column, “The Stench of American Hypocrisy,” I noted that US public officials and media are on their high horse about the rule of law in Burma while…

The Cost of Humiliation

Never underestimate the cost of humiliation. For in war victory is never clean, because it empowers the vanquished, or their successors, to struggle in the future. Recent wars in Iraq,…

Al-Qaeda’s Christian Massacre — Aiding and Abetting the Occupation of Palestine

Couldn’t the Baghdad church massacre also be seen as an attempt to “subvert and fragment” Palestinian unity? With “brothers” like al-Qaeda, who needs enemies?…

A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint

While the introduction to my “Education and Youth” essay was clichéd and I may not have known what many of the terms actually meant, its overriding sentiment remains as true…

The Stench of American Hypocrisy

Ten years of rule by the Bush and Obama regimes have seen the collapse of the rule of law in the United States. …

On Foreign Affairs – Remaking the Middle East

The U.S. has been trying to remake the Middle East for quite a few decades now as it gradually took over the role of the British and French as the…

The Russian Extreme Right and Its Researchers

The Russian Extreme Right and Its Researchers

Over the last 20 years, the small community of researchers of post-Soviet Russian ultra-nationalism has repeatedly become the target of verbal and non-verbal attacks, by their objects of research --…

Another Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Are Already at Home

Every group of Iraqis has faced terrible devastation as a result of this war, the magnitude of which is only now beginning to be discovered.…

America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship

The Justice Department argued in Federal Court on November 8 that the US government, if approved by the president, could murder anyone it wishes, citizens or noncitizens, at will. …

Canada Stands By Israel…

Harper’s comments express an ignorance and conceit -- and dishonesty -- placing him alongside the best hubris and rhetoric offered by his U.S. and Israeli compatriots. …

The Parcel Bomb Plot – Al-Qaeda’s Latest Christmas Gift to Israel

While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it’s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to…

Big Lies, Little Lies

The American working class has been destroyed. The American middle class is in its final stages of destruction. Soon the bottom rungs of the rich themselves will be destroyed.…

Conned by Democracy: The Middle East’s Stagnant ‘Change’

Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by…

The Impotence of Elections

In his historical novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa writes that things have to change in order to remain the same.  That is what happened in the US congressional elections…

The United States’ Annual Self-Imposed Humiliation

The United States’ Annual Self-Imposed Humiliation

Each fall, however, the UN vote is a welcome reminder that the world has not completely lost its senses and that the American empire does not completely control the opinion…

Anti-Communism 101: Hijacking History

It is remarkable the number of people who make fun of conspiracy theories but who accept without question the existence of an International Communist Conspiracy.…

Might Is Right

To the rest of the world the message is: the US is a morally bankrupt, self-righteous country that believes that might is right. The American claim to world leadership is…

Who Has The Crystal Ball?

Who Has The Crystal Ball?

Whose crystal ball read the future and had the PATRIOT Act drafted in advance? Whose crystal ball foresaw the underwear bomber and had the full body scanners ready to be…

Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim that the resumption of peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have thus far yielded nothing of value, at least…