Balochistan is the ultimate prize
Pepe Escobar [Click on map to enlarge] It's a classic case of calm before the storm. The AfPak chapter of Obama's brand new OCO ("Overseas Contingency Operations"), formerly GWOT ("global war on terror") does not imply only a surge in the Pashtun… more »
Obama to Ignore CIA War Crimes
Sherwood Ross If President-elect Barack Obama is reassuring the intelligence community “that his complaints are with the Bush administration, not them,” as AP’s Pamela Hess reported January 10th, his campaign slogan “change we… more »
Fun and games
Eric Walberg Bringing the threat of war to Russia’s borders is having wide-ranging repercussions. As Russian troops marched to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany 8 May, NATO troops — 1,300 of them from 10 member countries and six “partners” — were… more »
We’ve Lit a Fire, Now We Need to Fan It, A Populist Health Care Rebellion is Brewing
Kevin Zeese Last week when I was one of the Baucus Eight, so-named because eight of us were arrested before Sen. Baucus, I hopped others would join us. Yesterday, they did. And, the single payer movement grew stronger. Before the hearing I joined nearly… more »
The Pope is welcomed, but….
Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem "The Pope’s visit to occupied Palestine is unlike any other visit. This is the land where 61 years ago Europe implanted Israel, superimposing it right on top of another people and enabling the children of the… more »
Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part IV
Stephen Lendman This is the fourth in a series of articles on Ellen Brown's superb 2007 book titled "Web of Debt," now updated in a December 2008 third edition. It tells "the shocking truth about our money system, (how it) trapped us in debt, and how we… more »
The Man Who Knew Too Much? A Convenient Suicide in a Libyan Prison
Benjamin Davis Little noted thusfar by the newspapers of record in the United States, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the al-Qaeda operative tortured for the United States by the Egyptian secret police, died in a Libyan prison this past weekend of what has been… more »
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