Middle East
Chomsky on the Arab Revolutions
Chomsky teaches Paxman a thing or two: Watch video
The wider view
Middle East
Lebanon Defence Minister ‘offered invasion advice to Israel’
Elias Murr advised U.S. diplomats on how Israel could ‘clean out’ Hezbollah from southern Lebanon by Haaretz Lebanon’s Defense Minister offered advice on how Israel could defeat Hezbollah if a new war erupted on Israel’s […]
Middle East
The deadly lie of democracy in Iraq
In 1963, the CIA-backed coup that deposed the populist, left-leaning government of Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qassim, and eventually brought Saddam’s Baath party to power, seems like it just happened yesterday. During the bloody hijack, […]
War and Imperialism
Threatening World Order: US & Israel Quietly Announce Plans to Reconstitute Their Nuclear Stockpiles
Anthony DiMaggio 10 July 2010 The world looks like it’s about to become a more dangerous place. A recent report from Israel’s newspaper Haaretz finds that the United States is moving forward with plans to […]
War and Imperialism
Endgame for NATO invasion of Afghanistan?
The latest NATO debacle over Afghanistan takes place against the whole background of brute military failure, proving how intractable the crisis really is… The recent interview in Rolling Stone magazine with General McChrystal and his […]
The Nazi Genocide
Auschwitz survivor: ‘Israel acts like Nazis’
By Graeme Murray and Chris Watt in the Sunday Herald24 Jan 2010 One of the last remaining Auschwitz survivors has launched a blistering attack on Israel over its occupation of Palestine as he began a […]
The wider view
Four Pillars of Struggle
Who said nearly 50 years ago that Israel was an Apartheid State? by Ronnie Kasrils, Tuesday, March 17, 2009 With that moral advantage, on the basis of a just liberation struggle, we learnt the secret […]
War and Imperialism
“I was from a poor, white family from the south …recruiters started phoning me when I was 16”
US soldier refuses to serve in ‘illegal Iraq war’Karin Zeitvogel Fri May 16 WASHINGTON (AFP) In the hours following his announcement, Chiroux received some 300 emails of support, he told AFP. “I’ve been offered places […]
War and Imperialism
“The Americans thought that Vietnam was a war. We knew that Vietnam was our country.”
Basra: Echoes of Vietnam Conn Hallinan in Foreign Policy in Focus Rather than as an assault on “criminal militias,” virtually every independent observer saw the attack as an effort by Maliki and the Americans to […]
Middle East
How Hezbollah Defeated Israel, Part 3, Alastair Crooke & Mark Perry on Winning the Political War
“First, the Hezbollah victory has shown that Israel – and any modern and technologically sophisticated Western military force – can be defeated in open battle, if the proper military tactics are employed and if […]