In Re Barak, “Bullahs,” Blackwater, Bounties & the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) FRANKLIN LAMB /  Al Manar When the US marines were in and out of Lebanon in 1983-1984 some of those I met, when visiting their barracks with American journalist Janet Stevens, to discuss Israel’s use of American cluster bombs against civilians had [...]

As Israel carries out their illegal US funded attacks on civilian populations in Gaza, we look back at the origin of Israel, which is rooted in violence and racism; and the video, Who Were the First Terrorists in the Middle East? By Tim King — Salem-News Oregon When Gilad Atzmon sent this video across from [...]

In the 1933 Paramount motion picture Tillie and Gus, W.C. Fields said: “There comes a time in the affairs of men, when we must take the bull by the tail, and face the situation.” By Rand Clifford / Dissident Voice The term “motion pictures” is rather archaic nowadays, but there’s nothing archaic about W.C.’s insightful [...]

Let us fervently hope that the mysteries of the digital age will somehow summon the creative energy to manage the transition to sustainable and substantive democracy as brilliantly as it earlier staged the revolutionary uprisings. By Richard Falk Early in the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings it seemed that winning was understood by the massed demonstrators [...]

War would be the greatest evil on earth even if it cost no money, used up no resources, left no environmental damage, expanded rather than curtailed the rights of citizens back home, and even if it accomplished something worthwhile. Of course, none of those conditions are possible. By David Swanson The idea that wars are [...]

Change is forthcoming. Whose interests will it serve? Those of Washington and Brussels or those of the grassroots movements in North Africa and Southwest Asia? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya / Global Research.ca The same group of Egyptian generals running Cairo presently also formed the backbone of the Mubarak regime. There has been no real change in government. The military [...]

MARCH TO GAZA ON MARCH 4TH 2011 “Whereever you oppress people…wherever you deny them their basic human rights… people will eventually rise up.” – Ken O’ Keefe Building on the momentum of the Egyptian revolution and the growing push for freedom and democracy by citizens throughout the region, a coalition of organizations and individuals from [...]

NO HECKLER AT CLINTON’S SPEECH VETERANS TODAY EDITORS’ NOTE :  On February 15, 2011,  Ray McGovern, U.S. Army veteran and former senior CIA analyst whose duties included preparing the President’s Daily Brief and chairing National Intelligence Estimates, was beaten, handcuffed, violently dragged out and arrested by ‘two goons’ (in his own words) after he stood [...]