Hello, this is John Robles. I’m speaking with Mr. William Blum, he is an American author, a historian and a long-standing critic of US foreign policy. Robles: Hello, William, how are you this evening? Blum: Fine, thank…
Category: Global Issues
The War on Corruption or the Building of a Pax Americana? (I) The Extraterritoriality of American Laws In the article”The Dollar Racket” I wrote about the passage of a large number of laws in…
If Saudi rulers had more brains, they might be formidably dangerous. Even with lackluster intelligence assets, they are already causing enough havoc and bloodshed across the Middle East and North Africa regions, pouring millions-of-dollars-worth of…
Brutality Is “In My Veins,” Says Former Israeli Soldier Noam Chayut is the author of a memoir titled The Girl Who Stole my Holocaust, the English-language version of which has recently been published. Chayut served five…
Founder of service reportedly used by Edward Snowden said he would not be complicit in ‘crimes against the American people’ ‘The first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in…
The second-in-command of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says that the toppling of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria is the largest threat to United States national security and may help al-Qaeda acquire chemical…
America’s Mambo with Mubarak Dancing Between Dictatorship and Democracy America’s ruling elites – and those of the Western world more generally – are comfortable dealing with ruthless tyrants and dictators all over the world, partly…
How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of…
[Editor’s note: The following note on the Shanghai Daily report is from Prof. Long Xinming who is one of The 4th Media’s frequent contributors.] It appears that Japan has been suppressing information about the…
Author’s note: Please don’t get offended by being called an idiot…I derived the word ‘idiot’ from Greek word, idiotes, which refers to ‘a private person’ …as distinguished from the public person like bureaucrat, congressman, or President. An idiot follows the rules and orders that…