'Tear down the walls!' 'No calculations!' -- John Baird speaks at the UN | Jim Miles

John BairdOct. 6, 2012 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird, in lieu of Prime Minister Harper, read a prepared text to a mainly empty UN General Assembly hall during the ...

The Empire Trapped: The United States' Unpromising Role In The New Middle East | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 2, 2012 Editors representing many Asian newspapers stood in a perfect line. They were nervous and giddy at the prospect of meeting Li Changchun, China’s powerful ...

How The Government’s Lies Become Truth | Paul Craig Roberts

Sept. 29, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- In my last column, “A Culture of Delusion,” I wrote that “Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision.” Th ...

Obama's UN Speech: On Rhetoric and Actions | Jim Miles

Sept. 27, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- After beginning his speech to the UN General Assembly Sept. 25 with a nice homespun heartfelt story about U.S. diplomat Chris Stevens, President Obama turned t ...

World Without Torture: Nilantha Ilangamuwa Interviews Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig RobertsSept. 22, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Paul Craig Roberts was interviewed by Nilantha Ilangamuwa, editor of Torture, a print and online magazine published by the Asian Human Rights Co ...

That Defining Moment: On Anti-Muslim Films, Cartoons and My Gaza Neighbor | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 26, 2012 A neighbor of mine, of many years ago from a Gaza refugee camp, was a sacrilegious person par excellence. Unemployed like most inhabitants ...

Charity Economics, Subservient Politics: Why Oslo Must Go | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 19, 2012 -- Recent demonstrations in protest of the rising cost of living have swept across the West Bank. While they are not indicative of a Palestinian versio ...

Growing Isolation: Boycott of Israel Crosses to Governments’ Realm | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 12, 2012 Should Israel be worried? Very much so, for the age of total impunity is coming to an end. Critical voices of the Israeli occupation and mistreatment o ...

Global systemic crisis/October 2012 - The global economy sucked into a black hole and world geopolitics heated to white-hot | LEAP E2020

Global systemic crisis/October 2012 -- The global economy sucked into a black hole and world geopolitics heated to white-hot: The seven key factors of an unprecedented double shock Sept. 16, 2012 -- ...

The Children Are Still Dying: Violence is Not News | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust August 22, 2012 Somewhere in my home I have a set of photo albums I rarely go near. I fear the flood of cruel memories that might be evoked from looking at the countl ...

Palestinian Refugees from Syria Lost and ‘Betrayed’ | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sep. 5, 2012 -- The official position of Arab nations is unambiguous: solidarity with Palestine is paramount. But facts on the ground point to a disturbingly differen ...