Greek riot police have fired teargas at petrol bomb throwing youths and charged them wielding batons as 10,000 public sector workers marched to protest against budget cuts and high taxes. The country is today in the grip of a 24-hour national strike which has seen flights grounded, schools shut and […]
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Listening to neoconservative mastermind Richard Perle at the Nixon Center yesterday, there was a sense of falling down the rabbit hole. In real life, Perle was the ideological architect of the Iraq war and of the Bush doctrine of preemptive attack. But at yesterday’s forum of foreign policy intellectuals, he […]
– U.S in vicious cycle of social & economic issues, it’s about time for some protest. – Israel now on the way to South Africa style isolation. – U.S backed dictators but shifted policy when they were overthrown. – EU takes cowardly stance unwilling to oppose U.S position. Read the […]
[youtube]LbvzIpc-U6Q[/youtube] It’s been going on for decades, the relationship between the military and Hollywood is nothing new, but it’s good to be reminded now and then just how much of our culture has been hijacked and manipulated with the intent of framing our conceptions of the world around us. And […]
If we take a careful look at a map of Africa and also look at the African organization of the new Pentagon Africa Command —AFRICOM— the pattern that emerges is a careful strategy of controlling one of China’s most strategically important oil and raw materials sources. NATO’s Libya campaign was […]
Somehow, the job that we’re doing in Afghanistan is so crucial that it is worth our SAS soldiers dying for – but only until 31st March 2012. Come the dawning of April 1st 2012 that sacrifice will somehow become no longer necessary. ( At which point Prime Minister John Key […]
[youtube]mjtc5x_ZlJI[/youtube] The UN Security Council is considering the Palestinian Administration’s membership for statehood. Leader Mahmoud Abbas officially submitted their United Nations application last week. Israel and the United States strongly oppose the idea.
[ A recent map of the internet ] Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most […]