Don’t infantilize the people

Only Rational Thinking Can Save The World Andre Vltchek, Dissident Voice, April 14th, 2017 The West has brought the world to the brink of total collapse, but its citizens, even its intellectuals, are stubbornly refusing to grasp the urgency. Like ostriches, many are hiding their heads in the sand. There seems to be an acute

Unesco & The Temple Mount

UNESCO votes: No connection between Temple Mount and Judaism Jerusalem Post, 13-10-2016 In a 24-6 vote, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization gave preliminary approval to a resolution that denies Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the vote stating: “The theater of the absurd

The Temple Myth – part two

The Western Wall? What do Jews believe? We all know that the Western Wall, the Kotel,is the last remnant of our Temple. We also know that Jews from around the world gather here to pray. People write notes to G-d and place them between the ancient stones of the Wall. In the year 37 BCE,

Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad

Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad By Tim Anderson, Pravda 30.09.2014 The sudden reversion of Washington to a ‘war on terror’ pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched ‘humanitarian intervention’ stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President’s assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the

De-Baathification in Iraq

A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq Miranda Sissons and Abdulrazzaq Al-Saiedi ICTJ – Justice, Truth, Dignity Iraq’s de-Baathification process is the most current example of large-scale, politically based dismissals. Yet factual information about de-Baathifi cation is scarce and for good reason. From its inception in 2003, de-Baathifi cation was a deeply flawed process.

Interview with Gaddafi

Play ‘An Interview with Qaddafi’ opens in London Libya Herald, 8 June 2014 A new play now showing at a London theatre sets out to tell a different story of the 2011 revolution, claiming Muammar Qaddafi was a benign figure and the NATO intervention as a capitalist conspiracy revolving around the World Bank. In An

Putin versus the Neocons

Leaked phone call on Ukraine lays bare Washington’s gangsterism Bill Van Auken, World Socialist Website, 10-2-2014 The US media has shown remarkably little interest in the tape of a telephone call between Victoria Nuland, the State Department’s top official on Europe and Eurasia, and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, which was posted on

The hero of the Libyan revolution

Female teachers must cover face says Grand Mufti By Aimen Eljali, Libya Herald 13-10-2013 LIBYA: The Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani, has issued a fatwa saying that female teachers in schools and colleges must cover their faces if they are teaching males who have reached puberty. He made the ruling following a request for advice

Is Zionism Justice?

The nature of peacemaking according to Netanyahu By Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel October 7, 2013 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an aggressive, seemingly petulant speech at Bar-Ilan University. Between Holocaust references and criticism of Palestinian leaders past and present, he demanded that the Palestinian Authority recognize not only the unassailable fact of Israel’s

Vladimir Putin: “God created us equal”

Putin  chooses to play the peacemaker. And why not? By William Pfaff, Truthdig 11-9-2013 Barack Obama should be thanking Vladimir Putin for getting him out of a dilemma that would have ruined his presidency. His attack on Syria, as it was (and is) programmed,  would have been or will be no “shot across the bow.”