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Costa Rica: The lowest form of military aggression

by Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños

29 August 2010

On 1 July 2010, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly authorized the U.S. military to undertake policing duties in Costa Rica, based on an expired “Cooperation Agreement.” There is only one small problem: Costa Rica abolished its armed forces in 1949 and since then has had no standing army, (…)

A Historic Moment:

The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 12 December 2008

Just as Obama’s electoral campaign and subsequent victory will go into the annals as the political con-job of the new millennium, his economic and political appointments will mark another ‘historic’ moment: The nomination of corrupt and failed speculators and warmongers. Let us join the (…)

Ahmad Tibi: “Israel says it’s a ‘Jewish Democracy’ but there is a contradiction between democracy and the ethnic reference of the term used"

Brussels (Belgium) | 24 November 2005

Israeli representative Ahmad Tibi took part in debates held on November 18, 2005 at the International Conference Axis for Peace, held in Brussels by Voltaire Network. A Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, Ahmad Tibi showed how incoherent the conception of democracy in that country is. “Israel (…)

“Jihadism’s roots in political Islam”

by Bassam Tibi

7 September 2005

After a terrorist attack perpetrated by jihadiists two kinds of reactions are expected: some affirm the attacks have their roots in Islam whereas the others, especially the Muslim and the political correct westerners, affirm terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. Both sides are right. Perhaps, (…)