As urban Malaysia has grown and prospered, the rural hinterlands have generally declined. Back in the 1980s approximately 70% of Malaysia’s population was considered rurally domiciled, where today 72% of Malaysia is urbanized with a…
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Arab Oil Cash to Kill Democracy in Egypt In order to determine whether the turmoil in Egypt is in the best interests of the mass of ordinary Egyptians, we should use the trusted maxim – follow the money. Within hours of the military’s arrest last week of now-deposed President Mohamed Morsi, the Persian Gulf Arab monarchies were offering their congratulations to defense minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the new interim president, Adli Mansour. With Morsi still under arrest, incommunicado, and his whereabouts as yet unknown, the Persian Gulf oil kingdoms this week have swiftly moved, in the words of the Financial Times, “to prop up” the new rulers of Egypt with USD 12 billion in cash grants, central bank deposits and oil deals. That capital transfusion is seen as critical to bailing out the sinking Egyptian economy and ensuring the viability of the military-led interim administration.
Anyone Who Says the Government Only Spies On Potential Bad Guys Is Sadly Uninformed Even now – after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers – spying apologists say that…
Legislator Yahia Mousa, a political leader of the Hamas movement, stated that the Hamas movement and the Gaza Strip will pay a heavy price for interfering in internal Egyptian affairs, and called on his movement…
“The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution,” wrote Eric Walberg, a Middle East political expert and author, shortly after the Egyptian military overthrew the country’s democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi on July 3. But…
Last week, USA celebrated its Independence Day. Last week Edward Snowden spent another day not knowing if he would continue being free. Last week Julian Assange spent another day holed up in the…
One consumes U.S. corporate media at the risk of one’s sanity. Schizophrenia, for example, appears to be the permanent mental state at the New York Times, which cannot figure out which global reality is operative on…
The Eyal terminal at the city of Qalqiliya is one of forty fixed checkpoints located along the boundary between the occupied West Bank and Israel. The terminals are part of an elaborate system of physical and administrative…
The economic war by the opposition private sector against Venezuela continues apace. It actually began years ago as one of the prongs of Washington’s pitchfork for the overthrow of the constitutionally and democratically…
The first thing to know about the danger from the radioactive mass remaining on site in the three reactors that melted down at Fukushima is that nobody knows how much radioactive material there is, nobody…