Of the many unanswered questions about the attacks of September 11, one of the most important is: Why were none of the four planes intercepted? A rough answer is that…
Background Information In Oceania, the islands of Bougainville and Buka (together making the Autonomous Region of Bougainville) are geographically and linguistically a member of the Solomon Islands, east of Papua…
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article misstated the population of Kurds in Iraq. The error has been corrected in the text below. Introduction Kurds are the largest stateless…
“When the history of Russian justice is written fifty years from now, two landmark court cases will stand out: The death sentence of Nikolai Bukharin in his Moscow show trial…
I. Introduction The illicit opiate market is a flexible one that is capable of avoiding any limitation on its profitability. This makes it difficult to tailor an effective policy response. …
“…he is a good-for-nothing-man [who] simply betrayed his people…” When the news media touts an individual as a great human being, one should immediately become cynical. When Hollywood touts an…
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then Illinois Senator Barrack Obama told an audience at a roundtable discussion at Purdue University in Indiana, “We are constantly fighting the last war. Responding…
Crisis scenarios are the means by which dictators justify control. The most often cited example is Hitler’s “Enabling Act” in the wake of the Reichstag Fire. Another example is the…
During October 19-22, 2010, Charles Rivkin, US Ambassador to France, invited a 29-member delegation from the Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) to a conference in France, the stated purpose…
Read Part I This paper will review the evidence for informed, or insider, trading in the days and hours before the 9/11 attacks. From the very first, the phenomenon appeared…
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…
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…
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…
“Most participants argued for privatization and a strong private sector economy.” That is a statement culled from a report of a panel discussion entitled “Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Prospect and The…
“Revolutions are often seen as spontaneous. It looks like people just went into the street. But it’s the result of months or years of preparation. It is very boring until…
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at the very least informed in May 2003 by the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, that…
Earlier this year a popular uprising forced Tunisian President Zine El Abadine Ben Ali into exile. Not long after, former President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier (“Baby Doc”) returned to his…
It has been four years since the leaders of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua joined Hugo Chavez in forming a socialist bloc, intended to transform the life of the common man…
In his important 2006 book, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic, the third and concluding part of a trilogy, the late Chalmers Johnson, who was an expert on…
“It could not be called cooperation. It’s not even a marriage of convenience. It’s like living separately in different apartments, with different entrances and addresses.”[1] The NATO-Russia Council’s (NRC) initiation…
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