Children First
By Jeremy Sare.
Britain is currently reeling from daily revelations about acts of child molestation carried out by one of its biggest television stars of the 60s, 70s and 80s, Sir Jimmy Savile.
What at first appeared to be isolated, but no less [...]
The EPA’s Planned Destruction of the US Economy
By Alan Caruba
If there was no other reason to defeat President Obama in November, it would be the planned destruction of what is left of the U.S. economy by the Environmental Protection Agency.
In “A Look Ahead to EPA Regulations for 2012” [...]
Islam’s Many Murders of Americans
By Alan Caruba.
Editor’s Note: This commentary was written prior to the third presidential debate.
Moments in history are markers from which we are expected to draw some lessons. Thus, October 23, 1983, twenty-nine years ago, was the date [...]
Russia Seeks to Broaden High Treason
By Sean Guillory.
This morning I received a odd question in my daily Vedomosti alert: Would you be more careful associating with foreigners because of increased secrecy in Russia? What a curious question, especially since I am one of [...]
Cyberwar, the Power of Nightmares
By Marcus J. Ranum.
Summary: Today’s post by Marcus Ranum discusses Adam Curtis’ brilliant BBC documentary series “The Power of Nightmares”. Cutris deconstructs the dynamic of government as protector against unknown threats. His [...]
Presidential Candidates Finally Debate On Gun Control
By Baldr Odinson.
I’ve been annoyed by the fact that not one single question about gun violence came up in the first presidential debate or in the vice-presidential debate. You would think that 100,000 shootings a year, almost [...]
The Poisonous Presidency
By Alan Caruba
When the leaders of the United States, the President, his Vice President, his Secretary of State and others deliberately lie to its citizens, knowing full well that the facts about the tragic killing of an American ambassador [...]
Threats Against Obama? Words Matter
By Baldr Odinson
Yesterday afternoon someone fired a shot at the Obama campaign field office in Denver, Colorado. The shot smashed a window, but luckily none of the campaign workers inside were injured. A suspect has not yet been caught. What [...]
Dispassionate Conservatism
By Jeremy Sare
If your doctor’s response to your medical complaint was to merely exhort you to “pull yourself together” you would be likely to lose trust in his prowess as a physician.
And so it is with Prime Minister David [...]
Women in Saudi Arabia Will Drive
By Ehab Alkindi
Will she drive in the kingdom?
The answer is yes. She will eventually drive. But when will she drive? This should be the right question to ask. If we look into the reasons behind prohibiting women from driving in Saudi Arabia [...]
Big Secret Behind Britain’s Unit Fines Fiasco Exposed
By Mike Sutton.
In 1990 the British Government Department known as the Home Office published its Research and Planning Unit Paper 59. This contained the results of the first trial of unit fines experiments in England and Wales in four magistrates’ [...]
Lacking a Clear Vision: Turkey Strikes back at Syria
By Louis Fisherman.
Turkey’s recent strike on Syria was portrayed both in Turkey and in the world as Turkey acting out of its right to defend itself. However, if the Turkish government did not receive international support for the move, and [...]
Iran Bazaar Strikes signal Misery, not Sanctions ‘Victory’
By Juan Cole.
On Wednesday the Tehran covered bazaar was closed, and the traditional market in some other cities such as Mashhad also went on strike with demonstrators protesting the collapse of the Iranian currency, the rial. Until last November [...]
Arizona’s Corporate-Run Agency Gives Taxpayer Subsidies to Other Corporations but Little Information to the Public
By Dru Stevenson.
New from the website In the Public Interest: Arizona’s Corporate-Run Agency Gives Taxpayer Subsidies to Other Corporations but Little Information to the Public.Arizona replaced its Dept of Commerce last year with a public-private [...]
Russia: The Vanguard of Authoritarian Democracy
By Masha Egupova.
At the end of 2010 both the Washington Post and the Economist created a new buzz word for describing the political situation in Hungary: “Putinization”. So how can Russia escape from its own “Putinization?”
Russia [...]
A Worse Job than Veep
By Jeremy Sare, England.
I can’t be the only one to notice the strong parallels between the posts of Deputy Prime Minister of Britain and Vice President of the US.
For most of the time, they are both considered a political joke, whose [...]
The red lines of 1914 and 2012 – Historic parallels leading to a new global disaster?
By Oliver Krumme.
It has been nearly 100 years since World War I started in Europe after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Este Franz-Ferdinand and his wife in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, on 28July 1914. In a very recent [...]
The Abdulrazaq Tlass affair and the naked truth
By Malik Al-Abdeh.
In the same week as Prince Harry’s nudity made it onto the front page of the UK’s biggest selling newspaper, an equally racy expose was made on a Syrian news website involving a naked Syrian rebel commander and his [...]
This publication could use some Journalism101: Response to Washington Post oped
By Samia Errazzouki.
If Washington Post, its editors or Mr. Rosenbaum need a translation of this sign, I’d be more than happy to provide one. Please contact me privately.
The scarcity of mainstream media coverage on events and issues in [...]
RNC: Don’t Speak in a Publicly-Built Facility when you Attack Government – D’oh!
By Robert Kelly.
I got bogged down with NK for awhile, so I missed a chance to comment on the RNC and the US election more generally. I have some thoughts after the break, but a Democrat friend of mine wrote the following, which is a pretty [...]