US Policy Fueling Violence and Oppression in Egypt
US policy towards Egypt is helping to fuel the violence, oppression, and social upheaval that could spiral even more dangerously out of control.
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U.S. Policy Is To Prolong the Violence in Syria
U.S. policy is to prolong the conflict and escalate the violence by backing the rebels enough to eventually coerce Assad into agreeing to step down, but not enough to assist them in actually overthrowing the government.
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As With Iraq, New York Times Propagates Demonstrable Lies About Syrian WMD
Once again, it is evident that America’s “newspaper of record” is serving as a mouthpiece for the U.S. government.
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Syria and Lessons Unlearned from the U.S./NATO Bombing of Kosovo
The case of the U.S./NATO bombing of Kosovo is indeed a useful model for Syria, if the right lesson is drawn from it.
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The Path to Peace Lies In Rejecting the ‘Peace Process’
The Palestinian leadership must stop choosing that the Palestinians live as oppressed peoples. That will be the next step towards peace.
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Denying Fed’s Role in Housing Bubble, Paul Krugman Exposes His Intellectual Dishonesty
In his latest column, Krugman asks, “Why have we been having so many bubbles?” His answer is instructive.
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Joe Nocera’s Epic Fail: Lamenting Deregulation of the Airline Industry
Joe Nocera in his New York Times column last week railed against deregulation of the airline industry that occurred in 1978, pointing to its long-term consequences as an example of the alleged evils of the free market, but in his effort managed only to produce self-contradictory nonsense revealing extraordinary cognitive dissonance stemming from his ideological myopia.
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The Egyptian Military’s Massacres and the U.S. Government’s High ‘Threshold’ for Violence
U.S. policy virtually guaranteed that the military would follow through on its threat by sending the clear message to the generals that if they did engage in yet another murderous crackdown on protestors, the $1.5 billion expropriated from U.S. taxpayers to be given annually to the Egyptian military would continue unabated, despite it being in violation of the U.S.’s own law, which prohibits the U.S. government from financing any regime that has gained power through a coup.
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The U.S.’s Policy of Supporting Israel’s Illegal Colonization of Palestinian Land
US policy toward Israel’s illegal colonization of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is rhetorically of mild opposition but in deed of strong support.
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How the U.S. Supports Democracy in Egypt
When the Obama administration announced on July 25 that it was free to violate U.S. law by continuing to finance the Egyptian military to the tune of $1.5 billion annually, the message was understood loud and clear in Cairo.
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