The New Colonialism (Paul Craig Roberts)

Paul Craig Roberts Apr. 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- What we are observing in Libya is the rebirth of colonialism. Only this time it is not individual European governments competing for em ...

BOOKS: Deadly Embrace -- Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. By Bruce Riedel (Jim Miles)

Deadly Embrace - Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institute Press, Washington, D.C. 2011. Mar. 28, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Given the nature of even ...

5 Reasons Why Technology Can Never Be Neutral (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Mar. 27, 2011 -- It's repeated so often that few of us even stop to question its validity: "Technology is neutral. It's only as good or as bad as those using it." Here a ...

Natural Flow of History: Hamas Should Rethink Charter (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 24, 2011 -- “Now it is time to naturalize the flow of history,” wrote Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (British Guardian, Mar. 16, 2011). Th ...

US Army 'Kill Team' in Afghanistan Posed for Photos of Murdered Civilians (Jon Boone)

Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal Mar. 21, 2011 (The Guardian) -- Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for p ...

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 ...