Pre-election overview from Kosovo, 2010
Dec. 10 — About 1,6 million Kosovo citizens are being called to turn out for snap parliamentary elections on December 12 2010, which will be a huge test for the…
Afghanistan: A Chaotic Cannibalistic State
Abstract Given the history of tribal peoples in the modern nation state of Afghanistan, regional tribal diasporas and the dynamic nature of their world-views, regional political analysis is complex to…
Human Rights Day & U.S. Hypocrisy
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” – André Gide “WikiLeaks has shown there is an America in civics…
WikiLeaks: Advancing an Israeli Agenda?
Like 9/11, WikiLeaks has been singularly good for Israel. Asked on the night of September 11, 2001 what the terrorist attacks meant for U.S.-Israel relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, the then former…
So Who Exactly is Sowing Strife in Lebanon?
BEIRUT — On October 24, 1970, during its 25th session, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Declaration of Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation…
Stating the Obvious: WikiLeaks Indicts and Vindicates U.S. Diplomats
The WikiLeaks vs. the US government saga started in July, when 77,000 secret US documents directly relating to Afghanistan were made available to major media organizations. Many of us shook…
Outdated Methods and Low-Expectations in Language Learning and Teaching
My entire Vietnamese course consists of a single textbook — the textbook for Saigon — two teachers, and a whiteboard. There is nothing else. There are no videos, no significant…
Dissolving the Union
For those who think the U.S. is broke, think again. It’s far more serious than that. To renew Bush-era tax cuts for our most well-to-do 2% would reduce U.S. government…
Unvarnished Truths About US and Israel: From the pages of Time, Jan 7 1952
Was there ever a time when a leading organ of the US media could speak the unvarnished truth about the links between the United States and Israel? Consider this quote…
Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values
“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally…
Bellemare’s STL ‘Procedural’ Problems: Indict, Quit and Blame the System!
BEIRUT — It is unlikely, but not impossible, that Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare ever met U.S. Senator Wayne Lyman Morse (Dem. Oregon), one of three Senators to…
AfPak: Talks as a way out
That Pakistan is ‘hedging’ is now official. It has been resisting both pressures and incentives to ‘do more’ in the war on terror. Observers with empathy realize it has little…
Some questions to ask our quaint little Teaparty friends
The Teaparty folks never tire of calling for “smaller government”. How sweet. Most other Republicans repeat the same mantra ad nauseam as well, as do many liberals (not to be…
“Will that be naked pictures, or being fondled, with your flight ticket, miss?”
We’ve all heard about it of course, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) x-raying under people’s clothes or groping them like on a clumsy second date. Maybe the new security procedures…
If the house where Julian Assange of Wikileaks is staying is destroyed by a Predator drone, and the United States denies any involvement … Well, I’ll believe them.
One of the most common threads running through the Wikileaks papers is Washington’s manic obsession with Iran. In country after country the United States exerts unceasing pressure on the government…
Obama’s Israel Policy: Speak softly and carry a very big carrot
Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration’s extraordinary offer to Netanyahu. In exchange for a paltry…
Challenges facing Burma with the release of Aung San Suu Kyi
In Charlie Chaplin’s satirical look at World War 2, The Great Dictator, the comic genius lampoons Adolf Hitler in his memorable role as Adenoid Hynkel, leader of the Double Cross.…
Lebanon at Stake: Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards
The timing of the Turkish Prime Minister’s two-day visit to Lebanon could not be more judicious. Lebanon’s enemies have been banging the drums of war louder than ever before. All…
A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies
The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our “modern” world, which in fact is a throwback…
Who precisely is attacking the world?
The stuck pigs are squealing. To shift the onus from the US State Department, Hillary Clinton paints Wikileaks’ release of the “diplomatic cables” as an “attack on the international community.” …
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