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UNDERSTANDING ISRAEL’S CORROSIVE INFLUENCE ON WESTERN DEMOCRACY
John Chuckman
Something troubling is quietly underway in the Western world, that portion of the world’s governments who style themselves as liberal democracies and free societies. Through a number of avenues, people’s assumptions about the role of government are being undermined as their governments evolve towards a pattern established in the United States. No, I do not mean in building a neo-Roman marble repository of (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Pope Francis’ “”pilgrimage” to the Holy Land last week proved to be an unbalanced impossible mission. The pontiff failed to strike a balance of neutrality between contradictory and irreconcilable binaries like divinity and earth, religion and politics, justice and injustice and military occupation and peace.
Such neutrality is viewed by the laity of Christian believers, let alone Muslim ones, in the Holy Land as religiously, morally and politically unacceptable.
The (…)


 Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
USA
Mr President,
On April 18th, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Columbian writer, passed away. “The world has lost one of its greatest visionary writers, and one of my favorites when I was young, you declared, when you learned of his death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez played an important role in the history (…)

Intensification of the international sanctions aimed at Iran’s nuclear programme has resulted not only in a contraction of the Iranian economy, but also had the inadvertent consequence of empowering corrupt businessmen at the expense of the Iranian people.
With noticeable restrictions on imports and exports, and a shrinking pool of international businesses willing to associate with Iran, the isolation is palpable. According to a George Washington University International Affairs Review, (…)

Farcical ’elections’ in Ukraine provide possible staging ground for enormous escalation in conflict, hostilities.
Alternative title: Orwell and Kafka had a baby, and named it Petr Poroshenko!
It was a classic circus, as much of a fairy tale ’election’ as one might expect from oligarchical fascists backed by the most murderous empire in human history. Burning down offices of opposition parties, outlawing them, shooting, torturing and killing opponents... mobilizing the military power of (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Reports are abound by international organizations about the responsibility of the Syrian government for the human rights violations in the ongoing conflict in Syria, now in its fourth year, but the responsibility of the insurgents has been kept away from media spotlight for political reasons.
However, the horrible image of the “revolutionary” performance imposed itself on the media and public opinion to an extent that it has become impossible to black it out anymore. (…)

The situation between Russia and the USA almost has reached a state of “hot” war. Usually that is what happens when anyone threatens America’s dollar hegemony, which really is its hegemony. Russia and China soon may arrange for payments on their huge natural gas deal (and later a huge petroleum deal) to be made in OTHER THAN DOLLARS – a “RED LINE” for which lesser countries have been invaded and their leaders killed by US forces.
Russia is the second-largest producer of dry natural gas (…)

The people of Ukraine need a check from the neck up ....How could this deluded people even consider drinking the economic poison pill of massive cuts in social services , the ruthless deprivation of the very staples of human life...... Soon beyond the reach of 80% of this nation’s population ?...........Meanwhile Western banks and their oligarchic allies will live high off the fatted land - the harvest of UKRAINE’S misery and Obama’s eternal shame ............The polls (…)

* by Roger Annis * rabble.ca
"I share the views of the writers Renfrey Clarke and Boris Kagarlitsky that a political or military intervention into eastern Ukraine by Russia would be harmful, disastrous even, for the movement in the east.
Since eastern rebels are very pro-soviet and demand nationalization, despite all the claims they are ’pro-Russia,’ Russia itself looks at them with suspicion."
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A law of physics states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Just as opposites reside in the natural sciences, they also reside in the social sciences; therefore, if visionary, honorable, and selfless people exist then myopic, dishonorable, and selfish people must exist as well.
A primary distinction between natural and social science is that, in the social sciences, reactions are not always equal. In fact, they can be so disproportionate that they demean, (…)