Lawrence Davidson views the roots of the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain, and argues that the double standards embodied in the US response to the Bahraini regime’s violent suppression of the peaceful protests can be directly linked not only to the desire to control the Gulf’s oil supplies, but also to […]
Geopolitics
Thousands of Egyptian protesters have gathered outside the Israeli embassy in the capital, calling for an end to Cairo’s relations with Tel Aviv. Several hundred angry protesters also gathered in Cairo’s historic Liberation Square following the Friday Prayers. Protesters voiced their anger at Tel Aviv by burning the Israeli flag […]
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[ Documentary now showing in New Zealand theatres ~ From the makers of The Last Resort ] On October 15th 2007, activists around New Zealand woke to guns in their faces. Black-clad police smashed down doors, dragging families out onto roads and detaining some without food or water. In the […]
[youtube]FBGz0MhuMCA[/youtube] Stephen Chan is currently Professor of International Relations at the University of London and Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of The Zen of International Relations (2001), Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence (2003), Out […]
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An image apparently showing a dead Osama bin Laden broadcast on Pakistani television and picked up by British newspaper websites is a fake. Read the rest here
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[Listen to my interview with David Ray Griffin, author of Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? here. In it we discuss the evidence that OBL died in December 2001.] Osama Bin Bogeyman, the tribal chiefs tell us, has been ritually sacrificed: Slaughtered by warriors, then dumped into the ocean. But […]
https://tumeke.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-west-built-osama-bin-laden.html What a dreadful waste of a decade for the West’s ‘war of terrorism’. Over a Trillion dollars in direct costs and anywhere between 100 000 and a million dead civilians (we’re not sure because we don’t count ‘them’ when they die). The biggest waste has been that we don’t […]