Israel’s infamous West Bank Wall funded by … http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64460.shtml One of the wiser political observations I’ve read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National: “the debate about the two-state solution has become an…
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Reporting on the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, on foreign policy, The Wall Street Journal observed that “the only country mentioned more (than Israel) was Iran, which is seen by most nations in the Middle…
Every culture has a Story of the People to give meaning to the world. Part conscious and part unconscious, it consists of a matrix of agreements, narratives, and symbols that tell us why we are…
Recently, some foreign media claim that China has become increasingly “aggressive” in the South China Sea. They even falsely declare that China has taken “provocative actions” to escalate the tensions in the sea and blame…
Some four years after the 2008 financial crisis, public trust in banks is as low as ever. Sophisticated investors describe big banks as “black boxes” that may still be concealing enormous risks—the sort that could…
In the early hours of January 1, 2013, by Bolivian Time, I began a frantic search for an item that had been published roughly at the same time, but by Israeli Time. Due to the…
At least 60,000 people have died in Syria’s conflict, UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay says. How does Navi Pillay knows this? The UN does not have any presence in Syria. At least 60,000 people…
Recent events in the Central African Republic provides a test-case for the future of the continent and the role of imperialist governments in their ongoing interventions into the internal affairs of various nation-states. Threatened with…
A Renaissance in the East In the world’s oldest university, a cradle of the European Renaissance, one is reminded of a great Italian who lived at the onset of that Renaissance half a millennium ago…
You may already have seen more recent indications of this, but contrary to published reports of China’s growing inequality, leading to imminent political instability, here is an article from the Atlantic stating the World Bank…