A Peace Process That Makes Peace Impossible
by Nicola Nasser
Palestinian – Israeli peace-making can only deliver if Palestinians are united, but the current Annapolis “peace process” was launched first of all as a blueprint for…
Jewish ‘refugee’ lobby seeks to eclipse Palestinian losses
by Jonathan Cook
A broad coalition of Jewish lobby groups has made a series of breakthroughs this year in its campaign to link the question of justice for millions of Palestinian refugees with…
Bolivia: The struggle for change
by Bolivia Rising
Having captured the imagination of progressives across the globe with scenes of indigenous uprisings confronting right-wing governments and multinationals, Bolivia has become a…
For the GOP, the Economic Meltdown May Have Happened Just a Wee Bit Early
by Bernard Weiner
Most likely, we’ll never find out what really happened inside the CheneyBush Administration until after January 20, when ethically-motivated insiders feel they can spill some…
TH*NK*NG (the DOW)
by Fred Cederholm
I’ve been thinking about the DOW. Actually I’ve been thinking about our current problems, the market indexes, calendar 2008/ last week, the Dow Industrial 30 components, 1968, and…
Mumbai Attack: The British are behind it
by Roland Michel Tremblay
The new terrorist attacks in Mumbai have opened new conspiracy theories, one of them that MI6 might be behind those attacks. It would not be hard to convince me it is…
Tomgram: Robert Dreyfuss, Is Iran Policy Still Up for Grabs?
by Tom Engelhardt
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…
After all, that massive U.S. air attack on Iran that anti-imperial critics long expected to arrive, that Seymour…
Act Two: The Struggle Continues
by Ernest Partridge
Barack Obama is President-Elect, the Democrats have significantly increased their majorities in Congress, the Supreme Court drift to the right has been halted and may soon be…
Sucker bait or the politics of smoke and mirrors
by William Bowles
To say that I’m amazed at all those liberal/lefties who claim that somehow Barack Obama has ‘deserted’ them is somewhat of an understatement. Amazed? Gobsmacked would be closer to…
Holder Must Balance Security, Rights
by Jason Leopold
One of the top challenges facing Barack Obama’s Justice Department will be striking a balance between fighting terrorism and protecting individual civil liberties, says a recent…
Obama's Economic "Dream Team"?
by Stephen Lendman
Dream on if you believe it, and something must be up if Karl Rove says it. In a November 28 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he called it “a first-rate economic team” while at the…
Can Obama Do Change?
by Jerome Grossman
Immediately after his election, President-elect Barack Obama was properly deferential to George W. Bush and the U. S. Constitution: “We have only one president at a time.”…
The jingoist geisha is obsessed how to entertain the president monkey
by Shirzad Azad
The Japanese political establishment has once again mobilized an army of spin doctors to clean up a new foreign policy mess. Contrary to the recent media and press coverage in…
The Lady Between the Queen and the Tribe
by Gilad Atzmon 
In spite of the fact that I monitor Israeli press and Jewish activism on a daily basis, I must admit that almost once a day I come across something new and refreshing…
Climate Change: World War III by another name?
by William Bowles
“The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.”Rachel Carson published her book ‘Silent Spring’ in 1962 but even before…— ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats
