February 1, 2011
With the rise of a Hezbollah-backed government in Lebanon, hand-wringing seems to be the order of the day in the American and Israeli governments.
Read on.Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Reagan's Bargain, Charlie Wilson's War
By Peter W. Dickson
February 1, 2011
February 1, 2011
What’s left out of a movie about history often interests only a few experts in the field. However, the release of one that chronicles the successful sub rosa American effort to bleed the Soviet Army in Afghanistan in the 1980s may prove to be an exception.
US-Israeli Strategy Crashes in Egypt
By Gareth Porter
February 1, 2011
February 1, 2011
The death throes of the Mubarak regime in Egypt signal a new level of crisis for a U.S. Middle East strategy that has shown itself over and over again in recent years to be based on nothing more than the illusion of power.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Assailing Assange on '60 Minutes'
By David Swanson
January 31, 2011
January 31, 2011
The reason people in Tunisia, Egypt, and other parts of the world have been influenced to some extent by the work of WikiLeaks is that they have read or heard about the material that WikiLeaks has helped to make public.
The Unpredictability of Uprisings
By Lawrence Davidson
January 31, 2011
January 31, 2011
If the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt tell us anything, it is that predicting the beginning of mass unrest is very difficult. Indeed, it is probably easier to predict the stock market.
Read on.Sunday, January 30, 2011
How Food Prices Feed Egyptian Revolt
By Danny Schechter
January 30, 2011
January 30, 2011
This is an upstairs/downstairs story that takes us from the peak of a Western mountaintop for the wealthy to spreading mass despair in the valleys of the Third World poor.
Read on.Saturday, January 29, 2011
US Cynicism Explodes in Egypt
By Jeff Cohen
January 29, 2011
January 29, 2011
In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. questioned U.S. military interventions against progressive movements in the Third World by invoking a JFK quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Reagan's 'Tear Down This Wall' Myth
By Robert Parry
January 29, 2011
January 29, 2011
As the United States celebrates Ronald Reagan’s centennial birthday, the defining proof of his greatness as president will be represented by two sequential film clips – Reagan in Berlin ordering Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” followed by scenes of the Berlin Wall coming down.
America's History of Intolerance
By Robert Higgs
January 29, 2011
January 29, 2011
“Live and let live” would appear to be a simple, sensible guide to social life, but obviously many Americans reject this creed with a vengeance.
Read on.Friday, January 28, 2011
Reagan-Bush Legacy of Political Abuse
By Michael Winship
January 28, 2011
January 28, 2011
The Detroit Tigers are retiring the great baseball manager Sparky Anderson's number 11 this season. "It's a wonderful gesture," Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg wrote. "I just wish Sparky could see it."
Read on.Ronald Reagan's 30-Year Time Bombs
By Robert Parry
January 28, 2011
The time element of “30 years” keeps slipping into American official reports and news stories about the origins of crises – the latest in “The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report” – but rarely is the relevance of the three-decade span explained, and there is a reason.
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January 28, 2011
The time element of “30 years” keeps slipping into American official reports and news stories about the origins of crises – the latest in “The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report” – but rarely is the relevance of the three-decade span explained, and there is a reason.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
New Hope in Russian Nuke Proposals
By Ivan Eland
January 27, 2011
January 27, 2011
U.S.-Russian relations are on the upswing – with the new treaty reducing deployed long-range strategic missiles (New START), an agreement on nuclear cooperation, and an arrangement to transport supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan through Russia. But there is much more to be done.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
More Republican Misconduct Ignored
By Don Monkerud
January 26, 2011
January 26, 2011
Tea Partiers, Republicans, and protectors of public morality are right about corruption in government.
One-State Solution to Israel/Palestine?
By Lawrence Davidson
January 26, 2011
January 26, 2011
When Yasir Arafat took over the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969, he changed it from a tool of the Egyptian government to a dynamic united front seeking national liberation for the Palestinian people.
Read on.Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Chas Freeman's Defeat, a Neocon Win
By David Swanson
January 25, 2011
January 25, 2011
Whistleblowing takes many forms but almost always involves the disillusionment of an insider with the nature of what he or she is inside.
Read on.WPost Still Talks Tough on Iran
By Robert Parry
January 25, 2011
Just as some Republicans view tax cuts as the answer to all domestic problems, the Washington Post’s neoconservative editors see “regime change” in hostile Muslim nations as the only acceptable option, ignoring the slippage in U.S. influence in the Middle East that has resulted from following that approach in Iraq and elsewhere.
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January 25, 2011
Just as some Republicans view tax cuts as the answer to all domestic problems, the Washington Post’s neoconservative editors see “regime change” in hostile Muslim nations as the only acceptable option, ignoring the slippage in U.S. influence in the Middle East that has resulted from following that approach in Iraq and elsewhere.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Excusing Torture at 'Justice'
By Ray McGovern
January 24, 2011
January 24, 2011
On Sunday, I attended an informal talk given in a parish hall by the Justice Department’s Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. His topic: “The way his work for justice is defined by his faith.”
Letting the Wall St. Banksters Walk
By Danny Schechter
January 24, 2011
January 24, 2011
All over Europe and in much of the rest of the world, a new fictional hero has engaged the fascination of millions of readers. His name is Mikael Blomkvist, and he’s the protagonist of the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.
Read on.Ted Koppel's Timid Take on Iran-gate
By Robert Parry
January 24, 2011
January 24, 2011
Ted Koppel, whose broadcasting career got a big boost from the Iranian-hostage crisis in 1980, doesn’t seem aware that the long-running cover-up of how Republicans sabotaged President Jimmy Carter’s negotiations has collapsed – or Koppel may simply prefer to stick with the safer version of the story.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Ukraine's Assault on a Free Press
By David Marks
January 23, 2011
January 23, 2011
In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi -- known for its independent investigative style -- is under intense legal pressure, with its owner not part of Ukraine's power circles.
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