Washington’s Singular Accomplishment In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face…
Category: Global Issues
What triggered Buckingham Palace to precipitate the parliamentary firestorm was the MI-5 surveillance program’s finding News of the World was reopening their investigation of who, exactly, ordered the assassination of the Princess of Wales, nee Diana Spencer.
Is Turkey’s new regional assertiveness yet another case of “the tail wagging the dog” Turkey’s foreign policy has changed dramatically since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the unrivalled ascendance of the US, Turkey’s…
Al Nasser University, Tripoli “When I grow up, I want to be just like you guys,” this increasingly flaccid middle-aged American visitor joked to his teenage to early 30’s Libyan interlocutors, as we parted…
Britain’s elite monopoly control of the media rests not on Murdoch, but on the Mail, the Guardian and the BBC… In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment…
As economist Dean Baker recently pointed out in his article at Huffington Post, we are still in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. And it might get far worse….
John Robles’ Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and a contributing writer to Global Research., Montreal. Canada. I want to ask you some questions about the transfer of command in Afghanistan from…
The UN Security Council is “examining whether a green helmet force should intervene in conflicts caused by rising seas levels and shrinking resources” [1] and climate change in general. This, coupled with UN Secretary-General Ban…
Maleficent’s First Job Was Sitting On A Death Panel! Deny! Deny! Deny! No Care Unless It Is Cheap Care! I sat on a REAL death panel, even though it was never called that. The death…
For the last twenty years, Somalia has been entangled in a “civil war” amidst the destruction of both its rural and urban economies. The country is now facing widespread famine. According to reports, tens of…