Obama's Nobel & START: Peacemaker arrives empty-handed
Eric Walberg There are many a smirk as US President Barack Obama flies to Oslo to be crowned Peacenik of 2009, but it is the Russians who get the prize for taking the shine off Obama's trophy. Obama desperately needed a new nuclear arms treaty to… more »
Obama and the Same Old Bush Lies, for the Same Reasons
By: Peter Chamberlin The war in Afghanistan is being escalated on false pretenses. There is zero chance to “win” the war with the “new” (which is the same old failed) strategy and everybody involved with it knows it. When Obama and McChrystal use the… more »
OBAMA'S SURGE / A HOLLOW ECHO OF BUSH SURGE
Allen L Roland President Obama's announced 30,000 troop surge is a hollow echo of Bush's Iraq surge and it's being met with indifference and skepticism by the majority of Afghans who have fought and successfully defeated other ambitious foreign… more »
New Study Asserts Climate Change Will Increase Conflicts in Africa
By Cyril Mychalejko Darfur just may be the tip of the melting iceberg. A new study suggests that if world leaders fail to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen to curb climate change, Africa will be ravaged by more wars and corpses in the coming… more »
Is it a flogging offence to send friendly greetings to Gaza’s beleaguered PM?
Stuart Littlewood The great Viva Palestina convoy is on its way. It left London on Sunday, with the media doing their best not to notice despite photo opportunities and a press event laid on in front of the Houses of Parliament. The hundred or so… more »
You Want to Understand Anti-Semitism? Just Look in the Mirror
by Gilad Atzmon Benjamin Weinthal, the Jerusalem Post’s correspondent in Berlin wondered earlier this week whether Germany has learned from its Nazi history? The question is in itself very intriguing. Considering its past, one may expect Germany to… more »
The Manufactured Doubt industry and the hacked email controversy
by: Jeff Masters In 1954, the tobacco industry realized it had a serious problem. Thirteen scientific studies had been published over the preceding five years linking smoking to lung cancer. With the public growing increasingly alarmed about the health… more »
Our Lie-Based Reality
By: Peter Chamberlin Our government cannot function without the trust of the people. Without unshakeable faith that the people will allow the government to proceed, the governing coalitions of politicians will not dare to implement their own plans. Fear… more »
Dr King Spanks Obama: Part 4
By David Kendall Some months ago, at the 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration in San Francisco, attendees were asked to answer the question, "What would Dr. King want to say to Barack Obama?" [1] This article series is an effort… more »
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