Biography
Paul J. Balles is a retired American university professor and freelance writer who has lived in the Middle East for many years. He’s a weekly Op-Ed columnist for the
GULF DAILY NEWS . Dr. Balles is also Editorial Consultant for
Red House Marketing and a regular contributor to
Bahrain This Month.
The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant American (sic) population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.”
May 19th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »
America has always been a bully. Americans are convinced that they have a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the country’s borders from “sea to shining sea”.
May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Europe,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics,World | Read More »
How long does it take to be discouraged by the seemingly impossible? One year? Five? Ten (Viet Nam)…Iraq…Afghanistan)? Try 60 (Palestine)!
May 7th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. However I do believe in conspiracies.
May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks | Read More »
Achtung! Under no circumstances is a German legally permitted to criticize Israel!
April 15th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Heroes,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Military,Palestine,Support the Troops,World | Read More »
A perfect match of opposing views was the focus of two book reviews of Peter Beinhart’s The Crisis of Zionism.
April 10th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Call it revenge. Call it retribution. Describe it as “chickens coming home to roost.” Don’t call it terrorism. Call it Blowback – the unintended consequences of our foreign policy.
March 31st, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
The chicken-hawks in Israel’s Likud Party and in AIPAC and in the Republican Party, who want you to believe the lie, have no valid evidence to support that lie.
March 27th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
The Obama network success. The election of Barack Obama ushered in the use of political networking that hadn’t been seen before.
March 16th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Middle East,World | Read More »
Why do Western media lie repeating the slogan "Reporting all the news from all angles” when they know they don’t?
March 11th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Middle East,World | Read More »
A story appeared in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper last month about what happened after nine Palestinian children and one adult were killed in a school bus accident north of Jerusalem.
March 6th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Egypt,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
When non-Israelis, often referred to as “goyim”, commit an offense, the media jumps all over them.
February 26th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Oceana,World | Read More »
I have a story to tell. This story has been told before. It can be found in several places on and off the internet, but not enough people have read it. If they have, it hasn’t sunk in.
February 18th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Six months ago, I wrote about Alvin Toffler’s book Future Shock, which looks at a world with “too much change in too short a period of time”.
February 12th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
The U.S. is touted as having a great democracy. Everything good–either real or imagined—is supposedly due to their principles of democracy. Seldom do American politicians or members of the public define or clarify what those principles include.
February 4th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Egypt,Middle East,World | Read More »
“Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Guantanamo has got to go!” chanted protestors marking the tenth anniversary of the American detention camp.
January 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,World | Read More »
The label has been attached to Paul primarily because he differs from the other Republican presidential candidates on foreign policy. Said The Globe after the presidential debate In Des Moines, Iowa on December 10th:
January 10th, 2012 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »
It’s nearly impossible to change others’ perceptions of anything – of you, your favorite food, political candidate, TV programme or other pastime…in politics, from the blindness of arch-Zionist Alan Dershowitz to Gilad Atzmon’s refreshing analysis of Jewish identity politics, to the public’s perceptions of President Obama when they elected him and now.
December 26th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Editors Picks,Government,Politics | Read More »
A rationale for vitriolic responses to several areas of government misconduct.
December 18th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politics | Read More »
Pioneers don't depend on others to guide their lives and futures. As someone once said, they "promote the exercise of one's own goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance."
December 10th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Opinion Maker,World | Read More »
Americans won’t like this. Practically everyone else will: Americans simply can never admit they were wrong…
December 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »
Following is a true story that evolved out of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. It was organized and conducted by Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post.
November 27th, 2011 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Editors Picks,Living | Read More »
I’m writing this for people who will never read it without prompting: members of working families who relax by watching TV after a long work day and after they put the children to bed.
November 20th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
A bouncer at a night club doesn’t like the looks of one of the customers. What makes matter worse is that the customer is loud-mouthed and vilifying night club bouncers, saying that they are the ones who should be kicked out of the club.
November 15th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »
Another type of twister, a tornado, says Wikipedia is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud.
November 10th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
“Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.”
November 6th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Egypt,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »
Former American President Jimmy Carter commented on the kind of state terrorism reflected in American actions in Guantanamo Bay and other places as a disgrace to the U.S.A.
November 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
If going nuts as the ship passes helps, three rescues, show promise…
October 21st, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
Issues that should concern everyone, but especially in America, have been subverted, degraded, perverted, retracted, eradicated, expunged, obscured, obliterated, squashed or (simply) zapped!
October 9th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
Since when has heckling become a crime? Instead of supporting prosecution of the Irvine 11, Oren should at least have been expected to learn how to deal with hecklers.
October 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Middle East,World | Read More »
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