Since the U.S. “Debt Crisis” has been a big international story for the last few weeks, it is worth clarifying what is real and what is not. First, the U.S. government does not have a…
Category: Global Issues
The political elite and its stenographic media don’t classify types of terrorists. If they did we would get the good, the bad and the crazy. Since no one is perfect, the virtuous purveyors of death…
The White House is promoting the bobo-revolution in Egypt. It honoured the memory of a young Egyptian entrepreneur who died for denouncing police corruption so as to better support the military dictatorship. What matters is…
Since when and under what international laws is a children’s school a legitimate target? Since when and under what international law is it allowed to purposefully precision-bomb a family home and murder children? Since when…
Global Research Editor’s Note The following text recounts how the Gaza siege was almost broken by a lone humanitarian ship. What the Spirit of Rachel Corrie achieved, its crew and passengers, constitutes an outstanding act of courage…
“All war is based on deception.” — Sun Tzu, in The Art of War The decade-old Afghan war, which was built entirely on lies, has claimed innumerable lives and caused destruction too huge to be…
The school year has started for the largest U.S. Army War College class to date. The Class of 2012 boasts 368 students, including 67 International Fellows, who are senior military officers from countries friendly to…
In my recent article, “Creating Evidence Where There Is None,” about the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden by a commando team of US Seals in Abbottabad, Pakistan, I provided a link to a Pakistani…
We have seen lies, fraud, bogus statistics and Mickey Mouse bookkeeping. For good measure the powers behind government have thrown in the gutting of America’s industrial base by outsourcing and offshoring. As an extra temporary measure the Fed has bailed out the financial sectors in the US and Europe and continues to bail out the US Treasury. Who cares about currency debasement because it’s a cost of doing business.
As Ramadan kicks off, NATO’s millitary operation in Libya is sinking into total confusion, has observed Alexis Crow. This Chatham House analyst, specializing in the study of the Atlantic Alliance, is one of the first…