Sunday, 21 June 2009 Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows by Paul Craig Roberts Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British... » read this article

“Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation…Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.” - Financial Times Editorial June 15 2009 Introduction There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where... » read this article

26 May 2009 The international economic crisis is having increasingly dramatic consequences for Europe. According to official European sources, the number of unemployed in the 27 EU member states rose to over 20 million in March. This represents an increase of 4 million compared to one year previously. Further mass... » read this article

May 20 2009 The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's death circa May 19, 2009, in circumstances we will never quite get to know, concludes a morality play. As the curtain comes down and we leave the theater, the spectacle continues to haunt us. We feel a deep... » read this article

21 May 2009 The crushing military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been accompanied by immense suffering by the Tamil people of northern Sri Lanka. The merciless offensive carried out by Sri Lankan army and the right-wing regime of Rajapakse has slaughtered thousands, wounded many more,... » read this article

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems. Source: TED... » read this article

Introduction One of the most striking aspects of contemporary US-Latin American relations is the profound divergence between the hopes, expectations and positive image of the Obama regime and the policies, strategies and practices which are being pursued. Many so-called progressive North American commentators and not a few Latin American writers... » read this article

One can only wonder what prompted the incredible absurdities written by President Obama in his April 16th love letter to the employees of the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). It not only absolves CIA torturers from prosecution on the grounds that they were only following orders, (the same defense employed by Nazi... » read this article

(Photos added to Abayomi Azikiwe's excellent analysis by Axis of Logic)     Apr 13, 2009 After the execution of three Somalis and the wounding and capturing of another in the Indian Ocean on April 12, a leader of the so-called pirates vowed to avenge the deaths of these youth... » read this article

The Looting of America 10 April 2009 The New York Times on Thursday published a front-page article that provides further insight into the economic and class interests that are being served by the Obama administration’s economic “recovery” policies. Headlined “Small Investors May Be Enlisted in Bank Bailout,” the article outlines... » read this article

    I think I can safely credit Israeli foreign policy with ruining my summer.  If you're the empathic type - it's hard to go to the beach and swim in the sun while, several thousand miles beneath your feet, people are being killed en masse by people who should... » read this article

The opposition forces in Nicaragua, which consist of the different right wing and center right political parties, the corporate media and a number of influential NGOs, claim that the FSLN, in cahoots with the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), perpetrated massive fraud in the recent municipal elections. "How else could the... » read this article

9 March 2009 The specter of socialism is haunting the American ruling elite. One finds in the media increasing references to the prospect of socialism. The different factions of the bourgeoisie accuse each other of socialistic tendencies, while insisting on their own absolute commitment to the principles of free enterprise.... » read this article

Editor's note: In our view, Jim Willie has it mostly right. He isn't dealing with the motives of those who have, arguably, deliberately collapsed the economy for the single purpose of more concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. His analysis and essay deals with the... » read this article

(This will appear in the next issue of Al-Ahram Weekly) Triangulation or strangulation? The new president is discovering that America ’s road to Kabul goes through Moscow, says Eric Walberg As Obama prepares to transfer troops from Iraq to Afghanistan , Al-Qaeda and other jihadists are also “transferring” there according... » read this article

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27) "I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was... » read this article

Editor's comment: The Zionist Strategy for ridding Palestine of Hamas, its only legitimate, democratically-elected government and gaining absolute control: Designate democratically-elected Hamas as a "terrorist" entity in Gaza. Support and validate their corrupted, puppet regime, the "Palestinian Authority" and Fatah under Mahmoud Abbas. Impose a hermetically-sealed blockade to weaken and demoralise... » read this article

"Workers must reject the entire framework of the so-called 'bailout' proposed by the two big business parties and the union. They cannot let economic decisions affecting the lives of millions remain in the hands of the corporations and the political establishment. The only way to avert a disaster is for... » read this article

The Mumbai Attacks and the “Strategy of Tension” Introduction The recent attacks in Mumbai, while largely blamed on Pakistan’s state-sponsored militant groups, represent the latest phase in a far more complex and long-term “strategy of tension” in the region; being employed by the Anglo-American-Israeli Axis to ultimately divide and conquer... » read this article

Palestine Free Voice in GAZA - The Israelis have been given the green light to starve 1.5 million Palestinians to death. First - the US legitimation of Zionism. The Israeli blockade of Gaza Strip is the result of US unconditional moral and financial support to Israel. Billions in US tax money... » read this article