“Derogatory, disrespectful and inflammatory,” were the words used to describe this exercise of free expression. These words were not used to describe the Innocence of Muslims movie, but were uttered by Judge Jane Goodwin in…
Category: The Korea-US Specials
I have been reviewing the US-government produced ‘Human Rights Report’ on China for 2012, and am astonished at the overwhelming extent of arrogance, duplicity, disingenuousness and propaganda contained therein. I am almost speechless….
In 2012 and even more so after last months land slide election victory of the LPD and prime Minister Abe, Japan has embarked on a militant nationalist path that causes Japan´s neighbors as well as…
According to an unnamed Russian military diplomat some of the allies behind the “Syrian Opposition” are in the planning stages of a false flag operation which has been designed for the purpose of discrediting the reputation of Russia as an honest broker in the Syrian crisis. On Friday, 11 January 2012 the Russian military diplomat stated that the involved parties are in the process of recruiting Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian mercenaries who are supposed to take part in the operation. The mercenaries would then be deployed to locations in Turkey and Jordan where large-scale scenes, supposed to represent destroyed Syrian villages have long been built for training purposes.
A cri de coeur from a Syrian Student at Damascus University: “Mr. Obama, Tear Down These Sanctions!”
This observer has learned from time in this region that if one wants to learn what is happening on the ground politically and socially it is fine to speak with government officials, journalists, long tenured…
Oliver Stone’s Showtime series, Untold History of the United States, is the most radical mainstream television I have ever watched. Eye-opening scenes, shocking speech by our presidents, splendid narration by Stone, all make for…
It’s not all about Iran’s nuclear program. Since Iranians removed from power the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who carried the accolade of the closest ally of the White House in the Persian Gulf…
Many think the events in Syria are nearing the climax. The West and Israel are openly talking about the «endgame» soon to come. Any peace initiatives put forward by Bashar Assad are flatly…
2013: What is the United Nations Organization For? The United Nations Organization was founded in 1945 to stop conflicts and provide a forum for debate, discussion and dialogue for crisis management. It costs…
Learning to Love Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s deeply…