Archive | March, 2011

PHILIP GIRALDI :Neocon Foreign Policy

PHILIP GIRALDI :Neocon Foreign Policy

Prominent Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz demonstrates, the sole immutable principle of neocon foreign policy is that it should benefit Israel. by Philip Giraldi / Antiwar.com One of the enduring mysteries is why neoconservative foreign policy continues to dominate the Republican Party and also large parts of the Democratic Party even though that policy has [...]

Swiss President announces plans to break Gaza siege

Swiss President announces plans to break Gaza siege

Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey has announced Plans to Open all crossings to Gaza strip GAZA, (PIC)– Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey has announced her country is developing a project to open up all crossings to the Gaza Strip, which has been suffocating for the last five years from an Israeli blockade. She also said if Egypt [...]

Post Mubarak change in Egypt

Post Mubarak change in Egypt

Egypt Air deletes Israel from its destination list Egyptian airline no longer features the Zionist state among its flight destinations. Egypt Air – the official Egyptian airline – has deleted Israel from its travel destinations. The airline’s website no longer features the Zionist state among its flight options. According to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, [...]

SAMI JADALLAH: Israel and Facilitating Palestinian “terrorism”

SAMI JADALLAH: Israel and Facilitating Palestinian “terrorism”

Too bad the US and the West only condemn the killing and murder of Israelis killed at the hands of Palestinians but never condemn the cold blooded murder of Palestinians committed by Israel, its army and its armed thugs the settlers. by Sami Jamil Jadallah / Veterans Today One has to ask and wonder why [...]

Libya: What next?

Libya: What next?

One week after the United Nations Security Council authorized the use of military force in Libya, a solution to the country’s crisis appears nowhere in sight. By Mohamed Hussein / BBC Monitoring The Gaddafi regime remains entrenched in the west and the “rebels” continue to control the east, from Libya’s second city of Benghazi to [...]

STEPHEN WALT : THE MYTHICAL POWER OF ‘THE ARAB LOBBY’

STEPHEN WALT : THE MYTHICAL POWER OF ‘THE ARAB LOBBY’

Steve Walt a great satirist… Let’s look at the vast influence that the “Arab lobby” has wielded in recent years. by Stephen M. Walt / Dec.9, 2010 Keeping up with Jeffrey Goldberg’s errors is like trying to dam the Gulf Stream, and responding to his repeated smears is a mug’s game. I suppose I could [...]

JAMES PETRAS : The Super-Rich in the US — Greatest Living Parasites

JAMES PETRAS : The Super-Rich in the US — Greatest Living Parasites

What is striking about the recovery, growth, and expansion  of the world’s billionaires is how dependent their accumulation of wealth is based on pillage of state resources; The sources of billionaire wealth are , at best,only  partially due to ‘entrepreneurial innovations’. by James Petras Introduction The bailouts of banks, speculators and manufacturers served their real [...]

SINKING USS LIBERTY — New Findings

SINKING USS LIBERTY — New Findings

It’s time to open the windows and introduce a breath of fresh air. Lyndon B. Johnson is gone and so is his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, both of whom left the USS Liberty to its fate. But there are many survivors who are still looking for answers. It is time to provide what they [...]