Little Britain?
By Julian French.
A brief survey of Britain’s world reinforces the challenges the country faces and the need for effective national strategy. Be it the threat posed by terrorism or states, the relatively benign world-view in the [...]
The Rich and the Poor
By Robert Slayton.
My last piece began with the words, “Never let it be said that the rich are silent.” That was too modest. Let’s add that they’re tone deaf too.
Tom Perkins got into trouble for comparing attempts [...]
Nuclear talks to focus on centrifuges, reactor: Iran
By Gary Sick.
Gary Sick teaches Middle East politics at Columbia University. He was a member of the National Security Council staff during the Ford, Carter and Reagan presidencies.
Thirty-five years ago, when the Iranian revolution [...]
Israeli Ethnic Cleansing
By Stephen Lendman.
It’s longstanding state policy. It’s what former Israeli politician Yigal Allon called maximum land with minimum Arabs.
It’s dispossessing them for Jewish exclusivity. It’s doing it [...]
The European Parliament President’s poor remarks in Israel may have a silver lining
By Barry Shaw.
Israel’s Knesset erupted in uproar when the President of the European Parliament, Martin Shultz, stood at the podium on February 12 and told Israel’s lawmakers that they were depriving Palestinian of water.
He questioned [...]
Hard Work
By Robert Slayton.
Never let it be said that the rich are silent. In response to criticisms of Tom Perkins, the wealthy are granting media interviews to make the case for how important they are, in spite of all the class warfare [...]
Obama is Becoming Public Enemy Number One
By Alan Caruba.
America has arrived at a point at which it has never been in its 226 years of existence since the Constitution became effective in 1788. It has a President for whom that Constitution is routinely ignored in his quest [...]
There is No Global Warming and Will Be None for Decades
By Alan Caruba.
I recently received an unsigned email about my Sierra Club commentary in which I pointed out that it opposes traditional forms of energy and made a passing reference to Obama’s lie that “climate change”, [...]
What Iran wants by Rouhani
By Raphael Almagor.
Iranian president Rouhani published an article on Iran’s agenda and I wish to bring to your attention some of his most important messages.
President Rouhani opened by stating that when he campaigned to become President [...]
The Obsessive-Compulsive Style in American Politics
By Matt Bieber.
The contemporary Tibetan meditation teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche frequently described how we depend on our anxieties, fixations, and worries. However painful they may be, he suggested, they also serve as occupations [...]
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Regretted Inventing the AK-47 On His Deathbed
By Baldr Odinson.
Mikhail Kalashnikov was an inventor. He started inventing things soon after he joined the Red Army tank brigade, after his family was sent to Siberia during the Soviet purges. He invented a tank shot counter, a [...]
State of the Disunion
By Allen Schmertzler.
The yearly State Of The Union event is a great national treasure. It stands as one of the last rituals to garner a national collective viewing audience to hear one presidential voice at the same time without [...]
The Endless Arms Race
By Lawrence S. Wittner.
Lawrence S. Wittner (http://lawrenceswittner.com) is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. His latest book is a satirical novel about university corporatization, What’s Going On at UAardvark?
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Hezbollah’s Survival
By Tal Shalev.
Hezbollah has lost more than 300 of its people since the organization has gotten involved in the Syrian civil war. It currently operates in three main sites, after its successful assistance of the Al-Qusayr [...]
“Stop ‘N Frisk Trickle-Down Economics”
By Allen Schmertzler.
Economic data for the past fifty years proves trickle-down works. It works too well. Just ask the majority of Americans. It works to keep mobility down. It works to keep worker’s income [...]
Secretary Kerry, It’s Not the Demography!
By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger.
Is Secretary of State, John Kerry correct, or incorrect, when exhorting “the demographic time bomb” to scare Israel into a retreat from geography (Judea and Samaria), in order to, supposedly, [...]
Ayatollah: We cannot reach agreement with the West on human rights
By Hossein Amiri.
Tehran, YJC. Makarem Shirazi has said that no matter how synchronized Iran and the West can get on the country’s nuclear program, they won’t be able to do so on human rights.
Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem [...]
Why the U.S. Has Been Losing Wars
By Alan Caruba.
It is typical of the media that it concentrated on a few observations of Obama when reporting on Robert M. Gates new book, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War”, while ignoring the main themes [...]
From Kiev to Damascus: The Retreat of International Community
By Julian French.
From Kiev to Damascus and beyond liberal ideas of international community are in retreat. In what is the last remnant of a once-ancient sea that separated Europe from Africa Lac Leman sits below a soaring Alp known [...]
Did this trigger Bridgegate?
By Murray Sabrin.
The great mystery remains about the closing of two Fort Lee lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September 2013, now known as the “‘Bridgegate” caper. We still don’t know who ordered the closing, but we do [...]