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Egypt enters the China club

by Brendan P. O’Reilly

Beijing (China) | 31 August 2012

In a few moves, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has not only managed to tip the balance of power in Egypt and in the Middle East, but also farther afield. His budding partnership with China, as this author argues, could help Morsi shift his foreign policy axis away from the U.S. and the West, (…)

The War on Libya - Part 2

The media misinformation campaign behind the war

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Ottawa (Canada) | 16 May 2011

The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor has announced that he is seeking the arrest of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for crimes against humanity, purporting to have evidence of his "widespread and systematic attacks on unarmed Libyan civilians". In the second chapter of his study on the War (…)

U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union

by Webster G. Tarpley

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 25 April 2011

April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, which began when Confederate forces opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The following essay by Webster Tarpley, tells about the largely untold alliance between President Abraham Lincoln and Russian Tsar (…)

Pakistan: Can America Get Away With Murder?

by Shahid R. Siddiqi

Karachi (Pakistan) | 3 March 2011

The President of the United States deceived the American people – and the world – about a U.S. spy held for killing two Pakistanis, and blatantly misrepresented the laws governing diplomatic immunity. The U.S. corporate media dutifully did what their government told them to do and they have now (…)

Chomsky Warns of Rise of the Far Right in the U.S.

by David Brooks

New York (USA) | 6 May 2010

The wave of disillusionment with the government of Barack Obama is expanding as is the tendency among State governors, especially the most extremist, to look for a convenient scapegoat on whom to pin the responsibility. This situation is being closely watched by certain U.S. political and (…)

Socialism and American public opinion

18 April 2009

By David Walsh
A national telephone survey conducted in early April by Rasmussen Reports, the US polling company, discovered that only 53 percent of Americans believe capitalism to be superior to socialism. Twenty percent favor socialism and 27 percent are undecided.
Adults under 30, (…)

Straw considers Turkey-EU accession talks agreement as "A truly historic day for Europe"

London (United Kingdom) | 4 October 2005

FOREIGN SECRETARY:
Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Apologies for the delay in coming to this press conference, you can understand why. And this has been a pretty gruelling thirty hours of negotiation with for the three of us all of three hours sleep but I’m pleased to say I think (…)

The meaning of war: A heterodox perspective

by James Petras

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 March 2005

Introduction
This paper will discuss the social, political, economic, psychological and ideological causes and impacts of war in contemporary history. Obviously we cannot explore all of these dimensions in detail; instead we will focus on what we consider the most important dimensions of these (…)