London Vigil For Shaker Aamer The Last British Resident In Guantánamo – OpEd
This Saturday, December 10, which is UN Human Rights Day, I’ll be attending a vigil for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, outside Downing Street. The event, arranged by the Save...
View ArticleObama Raises The Military Stakes – OpEd
After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and failing to buttress long-standing clients in Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia and witnessing the...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Devastating Price Of Government Dependency – OpEd
The devastating price of government dependency. I witnessed it up close and personal in the late 50s when I was a child. Both of my mom’s sisters had five kids each by various men who simply deposited...
View ArticleCorrupt Corzine’s Fall From Liberal Grace? – OpEd
Just months ago Jon Corzine, a Democrat Party powerhouse, was being touted as a likely successor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Now with the MF Global scandal that includes about a billion...
View ArticlePro-Business Vs. Pro-Market: What’s The Difference? – OpEd
Many people confuse a “pro-market” orientation with a “pro-business” one. Recent events abroad highlight the stark difference between the two outlooks. Business interests lobbying the U.S. government...
View ArticleYemen’s Imperialist Transition – OpEd
By James Gundun An ongoing international crime spree is being committed in Yemen, where casualties mount into the thousands, and millions of pro-democracy protesters have no one to turn to other than...
View ArticleAbu-Jamal Should Be Leaving Death Row Hell – OpEd
On the 30th anniversary of a fateful shooting incident, the decision has finally been announced: There will be no execution of African-American journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who in 1982 was convicted and...
View ArticlePack Up The Moon And Dismantle The Sun – OpEd
They left me clutching islands of farewells. – Agha Shahid Ali, The Country Without a Post Office, 1997. My friend was like an imp – mischief drew his smile, as did Beauty. Poetry was his métier, not...
View ArticleCindy Sheehan: Close To Finishing Project, ‘Revolution, A Love Story’– OpEd
As some of you may remember, or not, Revolution, A Love Story began as a documentary project after I traveled to Venezuela in February-March of 2010 to interview President Hugo Chávez for Cindy...
View ArticleBrazil: Lagarde Meets With Rousseff And Mantega To Negotiate Lending To IMF
By Gustavo Palhares For many years, Brazil was a constant borrower of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but this time the country has been formally requested to lend funds to the IMF, which shows...
View ArticleDemocrats Blame Bush For Operation Fast And Furious With Fabrications – OpEd
When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was questioned by Congress about Operation Fast and Furious, an ATF operation that ended up a political fiasco, the Democrat Party sent out its operatives armed...
View ArticlePatrick Buchanan: Marco Rubio Vs. Rand Paul – OpEd
In August 2008, as the world’s leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness. It began with a stunning...
View ArticleBarclays Risk Assessment: Chance Of Iran Attack Tripled In 2011 – OpEd
Reuters is reporting that Barclays Bank’s geopolitical risk analyst says that the chances of an attack on Iran have risen threefold in the past year. Though they rate the chances right now at 25-30%,...
View ArticleThe Fearmongers: Netanyahu And His Kippah – OpEd
On the anniversary of David Ben-Gurion’s death, the usual memorial meeting was held at his graveside in Sdeh Boker, the Negev desert village where he lived in his retirement. There is no cemetery, just...
View ArticleWhere’s My Friend? – OpEd
By Sam Bahour My friend is Walid Abu Rass. He is the Finance and Administration Manager for the Health Work Committees (HWC, at www.hwc-pal.org), one of the largest community health service providers...
View ArticleFootball In Burin – OpEd
By Ben Lorber On the 7th of December, a windy Wednesday morning behind the boys’ school in the Palestinian village of Burin, 15 teenagers, dressed in red uniform, took to the football field under the...
View ArticleThe Postmodern Theatre: Russia, The Elections And Putin – OpEd
The protest pedigree of the Putin-generation Russian is a small one. With a police state mentality well and truly in position, taking to the streets is bound to land the individual a period of true,...
View ArticleMendacity At The University Of Montana – OpEd
‘We all need to remember is that what we are constructing is a public relations story, not a scientific analysis. We need to be straight with the facts but tilt the story towards our perspective. Small...
View ArticleThe Euro: That Procrustean Bed – OpEd
By Adrian Salbuchi Efforts by European leaders to shoe-horn a range of diverse countries into a rigid financial cage are doomed to fail. But that’s all part of a long-term plan for a global...
View ArticleWhen Americans Struggle To Close Plausibility Gap With Iran – OpEd
After Iranian television broadcast film of a captured CIA RQ-170 stealth drone that landed in Iran a few days ago, the BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, wrote: If, as was originally thought,...
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