On Friday morning, the AKP government of Turkey´s Prime Minister R. Tayyip Erdogan ordered Turkey´s police to begin a crackdown on Turkey´s opposition, resulting in numerous arrests of prominent opposition members and journalists. Roadblocks have been…
Category: Asia
For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances. Since 9/11 however, constitutional American government has been overshadowed by a series of emergency measures to fight terrorism. The latter have mushroomed in size and budget, while traditional government has been shrunk. As a result we have today what the journalist Dana Priest has called
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…
While the frequent, dastardly lies of President Obama, CIA Chief John Brennan, and their media acolytes about the demise of al-Qaeda and its allies unravel, Obama, Susan Rice, John Kerry, John McCain, and…
I arrived in Baghdad believing that Iraqis were simple people in need of having civilization thrust upon them, and that we were the enlightened civil ones who would show them the right way to live….
At least 14 suspected al-Qaeda militants have been killed in Yemen in three drone strikes presumed carried out by the US. Since July 27, the US has murdered 34 people, according to an Associated Press…
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…
Microsoft, who has denied being involved with Prism since the program was first divulged, released a statement this week saying it did not provide the NSA with a backdoor to access personal Outlook.com e-mails and…
Red flag: China unnerved by Japan’s bid to reclaim imperial past Less than a year after Japan nationalized the disputed Diaoyutai (Diaoyu or Senkaku) islands in the East China Sea, the country’s leadership…
It was five years ago that the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvilli, who was installed in power by the Washington supported “Rose Revolution,” launched a military invasion of South Ossetia, a break-away province under its…