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.
Contributing Writers
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William
Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of
becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what
the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the
founders and editors of the Washington Free Press. Mr. Blum has been a
freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America and
was one of the recipients of Project Censored's awards for "exemplary
journalism" in 1999. He is the author of numerous books, including:
Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire, Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII,
and Rogue State:
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.
Mr. Blum writes a free monthly newsletter, the Anti-Empire Report, which
you may subscribe to by contacting him at
bblum6@aol.com. Visit
his website at www.killinghope.org.
David
Calleja graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science and Master of Social
Science from RMIT University in his home city of Melbourne, Australia.
He has taught English in China, Thailand, South Korea and Cambodia,
where he worked for a local NGO, Sorya, based in Tropang Sdok village.
In addition he has also volunteered as a kindergarten English teacher,
tutor and a football coach to male orphan students in Loi Tailang, Shan
State. He has narrated and produced a video biography of Cambodian
students learning English entitled I Like My English Grilled. His video
depicting an insight into Stung Meanchey, "A Garbage Life", can be
viewed online. David is also a contributor to
Hackwriters. You can contact him at
davidcalleja1973@yahoo.com.au.
Antonio Graceffo is the
former assistant head of Private Wealth Management for one of the
largest private banks in the United States. He is now an adventure and martial arts author,
and has lived in Asia for many years, publishing four books and
several hundred articles in magazines and websites around the world. He
has worked as a consultant and writer for shows on the History and
Discovery channels and appears on camera in "Digging for the Truth" and
"Human Weapon". Antonio is host of the web TV show, "Martial Arts
Odyssey." He was embedded with the Shan State rebel army in Burma,
documenting human rights abuses, and doing a film and print project to
raise awareness of the Shan people. To see all of his videos about
martial arts, Burma and other countries,
click here. Check
out his books
here. Visit his website at
www.speakingadventure.com.
Email him at
antonio@speakingadventure.com.
Jeremy R. Hammond is the editor of
Foreign Policy Journal, a website dedicated to
providing news, critical analysis, and opinion commentary on U.S. foreign
policy from outside of the standard framework offered by government
officials and the mainstream corporate media, particularly with regard
to the "war on terrorism" and events in the Middle East. He has also
written for numerous other online publications. You can contact him at
jeremy@foreignpolicyjournal.com.
Shahid R. Siddiqi
Shahid R. Siddiqi began his career in
the Pakistan Air Force. He later joined the corporate sector with
which he remained associated until recently in a senior management
position. Alongside, he worked as a broadcaster with Radio Pakistan
for over 11 years where, among other programs, he compered a daily
English program 'Pakistan Calling'. He also remained the Islamabad
bureau chief of an English weekly magazine, "Pakistan & Gulf
Economist". After immigrating to the U.S. in 1989 he co-founded the
Asian American Republican Club in Maryland to encourage
the participation of Asian Americans in the mainstream political
process. He currently lives in Lahore (Pakistan) and works as a freelance journalist. He can be reached at: shahidrsiddiqi@gmail.com.
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. Visit him on
the web at www.mickeyz.net. You can
contact him at info@mickeyz.net.