Category: Opinions and Debates

The Real Axis of Evil

The Iran threat in the age of the real-axis-of-evil expansion By Edward Herman, Coldtype.net It is intriguing to see how whoever the United States and Israel find interfering with their imperial or dispossession plans is quickly demonized and becomes a…

Meeting a seven-year-old terror suspect

By Rick Salutin, rabble.ca, September 3, 2010 I met Abdullah, the seven-year-old terror suspect, at a dinner near Toronto on Canada Day. He came last year from Gaza with his dad, Izzeldin Abuelaish, who’s here teaching global health at the…

Stereotyping “the enemy”

Battlefield stereotypes that were fed to young minds By Robert Fisk, The Independent, Aug. 28, 2010 In the late 1950s, my father would drop by Reynolds paper shop in Maidstone High Street to buy pipe tobacco for himself and comics…

Kabul’s nightlife

Getting drunk in Kabul bars? Pass the sick bag by Sima Jilani, The Guardian, Aug. 31, 2010 “Kabul is the new Beirut.” This frivolous drivel fell from the mouth of a journalist in Afghanistan. She was effervescent with excitement about…

Psywar: The real battlefield is the mind

Psywar Film Reveals The Hidden Battle for Your Mind The new documentary “Psywar“ explores corporate and government use of propaganda and public relations to manipulate American people. The movie explores how the U.S. government staged events to manipulate public opinion…

A phony finish to the war on Iraq

Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Occupation By Bill Quigly and Laura Raymond, Counterpunch, September 1, 2010 Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS…

Behind America’s war on terror

The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror by Douglas Valentine, Global Research, August 30, 2010 The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever. In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some…

International Day of the Disappeared

AlJazeeraEnglish | August 31, 2010 We mark the International Day of the Disappeared and ask: What is being done to end forced disappearances, and what will it take to get justice?  See also: International Day of the Disappeared