An Odd Rumination (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 21, 2011 -- Can't we just drop Pee Wee Herman on Tripoli? Surly this shocking manifestation of everything toxic in America's existential zeitgeist arsen ...

All Out War on Libya: Surge in the Price of Crude Oil (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)

"Humanitarian Wars are Good for Business"... Speculators Applaud... This is Part III of a three-part article. PART I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya ...

US begins assault against Libyan air defenses (AP)

Mar. 19, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military attacked Moammar Gadhafi's air defenses Saturday with strikes along the Libyan coast that were launched by Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. A s ...

Rock Me on the Water (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 14, 2011 -- There was Japan, standing quietly offstage all these years, minding its own business, more or less -- though unwinding financially and socia ...

A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 10, 2011 -- A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a p ...

Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own (Dafna Linzer)

A group of detainees kneeling during morning prayer in their camp at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/John Moore) Mar. 8, 2011 (ProPublica) -- President O ...

Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 9, 2010 -- Libya's Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, ...

'Operation Libya' and the Battle for Oil (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)

This is Part II of a three-part article Part I: Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? Mar. 9, 2011 (Global Research) -- The geopolitical and economic imp ...

Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)

Part I of a three-part article. Part II. "Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil Mar. 7, 2011 (Global Research) -- The United States and NATO are supporting an armed insurrection in Eastern Libya, w ...

Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)

A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad lo ...

The Collapse of the Old Oil Order: How the Petroleum Age Will End (Michael T. Klare)

Mar. 4, 2011 (Information Clearinghouse) -- Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently ...