Has The Zionist Inquisition Come to These Shores?
By Miko Peled.
According to a report published Feb 7, 2012 by The Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, titled “Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11,” written by Charles Kurzman, – Muslims in the US pose “a minuscule [...]
Spin@ge II: Does the United States Department of Agriculture’s Publication of Spuriofacts Have its Origins in a Perverse Scientific Paper Written in 1937?
By Mike Sutton.
In an earlier article, Spin@ge (Sutton 2011), I revealed how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is irrationally promoting spinach as a good source of iron. This article provides some additional historical context [...]
Wikileaks: Togo, Boko and Nine Dead French Soldiers
By Christine Axsmith.
Arms Trafficking in the Ivory Coast
The released Wikileaks cable below basically alleges that nine French soldiers and an American citizen were killed by an attack on a French airbase by the Government of the Ivory Coast. [...]
Amid development failures, some see reduced foreign aid as a boon to Afghanistan
By James M. Dorsey.
Two small boys hold socks they received during a humanitarian aid mission organized by the U.S. Air Force in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Photo by: isafmedia / CC BY-NC-SA As
Afghanistan braces for reduced foreign aid as part of [...]
Arizona Immigration Ruling~Direct Assault on State Sovereignty
Kris Anne Hall.
Never has a ruling by the Supreme Court been more aptly titled as an “Opinion,” because that is exactly what Justice Kennedy and his cohorts have delivered in Arizona v. United States. It is nothing more than an open display [...]
Is Speech in the US Still Free?
By Daniella Augenstein.
U.S. Citizens and non-citizens alike often take the First Amendment for granted. We do not always think about it; but when we do, most of us believe that it will always be there. We act on that assumption every day. We [...]
Is the UK Home Office facilitating a myth about fear of crime?
By Mike Sutton.
Counter-intuitively, it is not a myth that earwigs enter human ears, or that ants may get into your pants, but it is very unlikely to happen to you inside your home or while walking about outside. Hence, we tend to say that [...]
How Long can the US Borrow to Sustain Hegemony – up to a 100% Debt-to-GDP ratio?
By Robert Kelly.
As part of a now lengthy chain (one, two, three, four) on US allies and the likelihood of US retrenchment (hat-tip to Andrew Sullivan for referencing this chain of posts yet again), I argued that American hegemony, despite [...]
Syria: Saudi Arabia’s policy conundrum
Syria: Saudi Arabia’s policy conundrum
By James M. Dorsey
Synopsis
Saudi Arabia is faced with the succession of its ageing leadership following the death
of Crown Prince Nayef at a time that the 89-year old King Abdullah is countering
efforts [...]
Gunmen kill former Syrian FA president
Assassinated: Marwan Arafat (Source: SANA)
By James M. Dorsey
Unknown gunmen shot and killed Wednesday the former head of the Syrian Football Association (SFA), Marwan Arafat, and critically wounded his wife in an attack Syria’s national [...]
UN Treaty, Sea Treaty, Gun Treaty…What Are We to Do?
by KrisAnne Hall http://www.KrisAnneHall.com
June 11, 2012
Power to create treaties is established in Article 2 Section 2 Clause 2 of the Constitution. The power to create a treaty is delegated by the people to the President with [...]
A sleeping dragon awakes: Kurds Take Centre Stage in West Asia
A sleeping dragon awakes:
Kurds Take Centre Stage in West Asia
By James M. Dorsey
Synopsis
As popular uprisings and post-revolt transitions change the political, economic and social structures of the Middle East, Kurds, [...]