The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint By F. William Engdahl, Global Research, January 5, 2010 On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to…
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America’s Drug-Corrupted War
A British soldier keeps watch while on foot patrol in a poppy field in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan on March 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) More photos at Boston.com. by Prof Peter Dale Scott, Global Research, January 1, 2010 The…
Is Obama walking into an Al-Qaeda trap?
Touch Yemen, Get Burned By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 31, 2009 We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned…
Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010
By John Pilger, Dec. 31, 2009 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future:…
Tales from Yes-we-can-istan
By William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report, December 9, 2009 All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” … Whatever are they talking about? Here’s what I wrote in this report…
Monty Python in Afghanistan
Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, December 3, 2009 Let others deal with the details of President Obama’s Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 U.S. troops going in and just where they…
Canada must withdraw troops from Afghanistan immediately
Malalai Joya, addressing an audience of 300 in Winnipeg, Nov. 16, 2009. You can watch video of her Winnipeg speech here. Photo: Glenn Michalchuk by Malalai Joya I have just completed a two-week speaking tour across Canada, bringing a message…
Muddying the waters over torture
by Brian Stewart, CBC News, November 25, 2009 Torture in a far off, turbulent land such as Afghanistan seems grimly foreign to us. Yet parts of the allegations raised by diplomat Richard Colvin have an utterly familiar Canadian air about…
Restorative Justice and the Middle East
Sandy Tolan’s Lemon Tree by Paul S. Graham, November 26, 2009 I don’t normally recommend a book before I have finished reading it, but I will this time. Sandy Tolan’s award winning book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew…
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, time for reflection
by Mikhail Gorbachev, The Progressive Media Project, November 10, 2009 As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s time to take stock. The Berlin Wall was one of the shameful symbols of the Cold…