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By Nicola Nasser*
The recent two-day first official visit in forty years by an Egyptian defense minister to Russia of Egypt’s strongman Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, accompanied by Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, was indeed an historic breakthrough in bilateral relations, but it is still premature to deal with or build on it as a strategic shift away from the country’s more than three-decade strategic alliance with the United States.
The US administration sounds not really concerned (…)

Do we need tenure in colleges and universities? You bet we do! Do away with tenure and you will do away with intellectual honesty and the pursuit of truth for sake of truth, the primary reason for colleges and universities to exist. Do away with tenure and you will eliminate the intellectually honest people, having made them vulnerable to the predations of believers, being left with knaves and vassals doing what they have to do to survive or win dealing with supposed superiors, being paid to (…)

A new article “New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom In Higher Ed Administrators” at (http://necir.org/2014/02/06/new-analysis-shows-problematic-boom-in-higher-ed-administrators/?fb_action_ids=10152208483284381&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B282471391902423%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D) casts new light on problems in higher education.
These problems are not new. See my analysis of these problems in (…)

The Federal Reserve , The Bank of England and Germany’s Bundesdbank are preparing for the inevitable wave of bank failures soon to rock financial and credit markets to their very core .........There will no be repeat of 2008 ...... No explicit bailouts forthcoming from the US Congress , The British Parliament or Germany’s Bundestag .... Member-Banks /Casinos whose management oversaw and approved the purchase of derivatives that exposed their holding company to (…)

– by Richard Silverstein -
You’d think Canadians might have a few things to say about farming out their intelligence operations to a foreign country and allowing that country to become an unofficial arm of Canadian intelligence.
Who’d have thought that one of the ways in which this agreement would be implemented on the ground would be in abetting an act of Israeli state terrorism?
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2...

UNDERSTANDING MODERN ISRAEL: WHY IT IS DRIVING THE WORLD TOWARDS MADNESS
John Chuckman
Nothing that Israel does in its affairs would be of quite such great concern to the world were it not for the fact that Israel drags along, willy-nilly, the world’s greatest power, much like some impressive-looking but feeble-willed, dazed parent stumbling along behind a screaming toddler demanding yet another goody. The threat of serious wars has grown exponentially in recent decades precisely owing (…)

There is an ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide in racist White-run Australia that demands international action against pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, human rights-abusing Apartheid Australia.
Australians have just noted the 6th anniversary of the “Sorry Speech” by former Australian PM Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008 in which he offered a very important formal apology to Indigenous Australians for the hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children forcibly removed from (…)

Reality check to all those chicken- hearted neocon warmongers burrowed within the US Congress, the Obama Administration and allied leaders in Europe .......Ukraine is not Iraq, nor Afghanistan nor Yemen .....In those regions, Putin stood idly by as the Empire of Graft and Greed toppled over one Islamic Domino after the other ....Putin stood idly by and witnessed the Empire of Zionism destroy Iraq to dust .......Putin stood idly by as Empire Obama released his Terrorist (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
International, regional and internal players vying for interests, wealth, power or influence are all beneficiaries of the “al-Qaeda threat” in Iraq and in spite of their deadly and bloody competitions they agree only on two denominators, namely that the presence of the U.S.-installed and Iran–supported sectarian government in Baghdad and its sectarian al-Qaeda antithesis are the necessary casus belli for their proxy wars, which are tearing apart the social fabric of the (…)

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Israeli forces in the eastern occupied Jerusalem village of al-Eizariya were caught on video on Friday posing for trophy photos as they held a wounded, handcuffed Palestinian child in a stranglehold.
The disturbing video, shot by Rami Alarya was published by the Independent Media Center (IMC), however that publication’s website, which regularly documents Israeli abuses in the village, appeared to be down.
The (…)