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The 21st Century Fake War Syndrome

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The end of the Cold War sparked this new Fake War Syndrome (FWS) and there is NO cure in sight.

May 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Economics & Markets,Economy,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »

There are Non-Taliban Poets in The ‘Poetry of The Taliban’

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It is truly a matter of controversy as it appears that non-Taliban Afghan poets are presented as Taliban.

May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Asia,World | Read More »

Never Ending Nakba

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As Ilan Pappe has said, most Israeli Jews have no idea of what they did to the Palestinians in 1948. (He also said that those who do know don’t think that what was done was wrong). But that’s only the tip of an iceberg of ignorance.

May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Crunch Time in Syria: The UN Protocol’s Jihadist “Loophole”

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It is crunch time in Syria. Allow the jihadist battle to take flight there, and there is no telling how far and wide this fight will spread. The Annan Plan is the “only game in town,” and the Syrian Army the only military force that can take action against these militants.

May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Europe,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

Alan Hart : Time for a military coup in Israel?

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“The trouble with us Israelis is that we’ve become the victims of our own propaganda.” General Shlomo Gazit

May 5th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Grant F. Smith : The Rise of AIPAC – AIPAC History

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AIPAC History. Proto-AIPAC’s incubation in the Israeli embassy in 1948. Strategic direction-setting by the Mossad and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

May 4th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Iran,Israel,Palestine,World | Read More »

A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC

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The multitrillion-dollar global question remains: Is the emergence of BRICS a signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?

May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Europe,Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »

Who’s Afraid of the UN Observer Mission in Syria?

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As this process of demilitarization and national reconciliation unfolds – aided hopefully by objective observers on the ground inside Syria – it will be vital to focus only on credible, verifiable information to keep cool heads.

April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

Iran, Netanyahu and the Holocaust

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In his speech to AIPAC, Netanyahu referred to 1944 to make the case for war against Iran. He gets his history wrong again. In 1944, at a time when Nazi Germany was plotting the final solution, Iranian diplomats were busy handing out hundreds of passports to European and Iranian Jews in order to facilitate their exodus to Iran.

April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »

American Methodists Must Be Fearless About Divestment

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Enough of this inter-faith lah-di-dah? True Christians everywhere – not just the Methodists – need to stiffen the sinew and toughen up. Why continue all this inter-faith lah-di-dah with religious delinquents?

April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Misreading Arab public opinion on Iran’s nuclear program

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Adapting to the sweeping changes of the Arab Spring requires a new paradigm about the Middle East, one that is cognizant and respectful of the democratic will of Arab public opinion.

April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Egypt,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Oman,Palestine,Syria,World,Yemen | Read More »

Press TV Banned, the New Democracy

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The German government follows US and the UK attacks on Iranian Television and orders their international English news channel be removed from their airwaves.

April 25th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Western Journalist: Visa Denied

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It is clearly time to challenge the dated concept that mainstream western media is impartial, objective or professional in their coverage of Mideast affairs.

April 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

Israel Again and Again Slaps a Cowardly America

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Thus, what will history record of whom and what you are?

April 21st, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Britain United Kingdom,China,Drug War,Editors Picks,Egypt,Europe,Iran,Iraq War,Israel,Libya,Middle East,Palestine,Syria,WarZone,World,Yemen | Read More »

Wikileaks Editor Julian Assange interviewed Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah

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To some Julian Assange is a hero to others a spy, you can watch the show and judge for yourself below.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Egypt,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,Syria,World,Yemen | Read More »

HART : What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common?

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The main thing they have in common stems from the fact that they both live in fantasy worlds of their own creation and talk a lot of extreme rightwing nonsense.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »

Afghanistan: Is Karzai Peace Plan a No-Go?

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- The world knows that the Taliban have no intention of relinquishing its Islamo-fascist mentality.

April 17th, 2012 | Posted in Asia,Editors Picks,World | Read More »

Does Israel Interfere in US Elections?

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Facts on the ground are always easier to establish as permanent realities while the media and its constituents are looking the other way.

April 15th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Middle East,World | Read More »

Iran, China’s Rise, and American Strategy

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Leverett observes the Iranian nuclear issue is likely to turn out to be, on many levels, a major turning point for America’s relative standing as a great power, in the Middle East and globally.

April 7th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,China,Editors Picks,Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »

The Zionist cuckoos in Christianity’s nest

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What does Hagee’s CUfI believe in? The scary US-based Unity Coalition for Israel brings together more than 200 partners claiming to represent more than 40 million Americans in the largest network of Pro-Israel groups in the world.

March 30th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

I Want My Sunni Back

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Wrenching Away Our Sunni. There is something quite unique about the Middle East’s “Resistance Axis” which includes Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, Hamas and a smattering of smaller groups opposed to western imperialism and zionism.

March 25th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Egypt,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Oman,Palestine,Syria,World,Yemen | Read More »

Social Networking Goes Viral

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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 »

All the News from All Angles

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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 »

Christ at the Checkpoint and Up Against The Apartheid Wall

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This week in Bethlehem, the second international Christ at the Checkpoint Conference concluded with a “major breakthrough in the evangelical world” and was attended by over 600 Evangelical Palestinian Christians, Christian Zionists and Messianic Christians.

March 10th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Why Putin is Driving Washington Nuts

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Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect).

March 10th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

The Bloody Road to Damascus: The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State

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There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of the government and its peaceful opposition.

March 9th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Editors Picks,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power

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China’s re-emergence as a world economic power raises important questions about what we can learn from its previous rise and fall and about the external and internal threats confronting this emerging economic superpower for the immediate future.

March 7th, 2012 | Posted in Asia,China,Corruption,Economics & Markets,Economy,Editors Picks,Europe,Foreign Relations,Government,Investing & Finance,Middle East,Politics,World | Read More »

Putin Wins Overwhelmingly

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Putin’s outspokenness won’t stop. He’ll continue saying “nobody can impose anything on us” and opposing Western efforts “to destroy Russia. Today our people have proven that such scenarios are not going to work in our country.”

March 6th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »

Anti-Iranian Sanctions Backfire

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Press TV has interviewed Joshua Blakeney, on his view on the recent hike in fuel prices.

February 24th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Syria,World | Read More »

How Iran Changed The World

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Imagine this scenario: A developing nation decides to selectively share its precious natural resource, selling only to “friendly” countries and not “hostile” ones.

February 18th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,China,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »

 

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