contributions

The US, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
By Andrew Bacevich
July 24, 2010 "TomDispatch" — "In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history." This sentiment, introducing the essay that made Francis Fukuyama a household name, commands renewed attention today, albeit from a different perspective.
Developments during the 1980s, above all the winding down of the Cold (…)

The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse
Dale Pendell
The Old Poet had been preparing himself and his community for fifty years. When the Collapse hit they already had their own schools, wineries, mills, gardens, power, and two generations of experience. Nonetheless the Collapse was traumatic, if not on the scale of the urban disasters.
This story is excerpted from the novel The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse recently released by North Atlantic Books.
The Old Poet died at (…)

Western genocide denial and holocaust denial: despite WikiLeaks, there is massive Western media censorship of 4.5 million post-invasion Afghan deaths from Australia-complicit US-imposed war and deprivation.
WikiLeaks is celebrated for breaking through the Anglo-American, Zionist and neocon Wall of Silence and exposing US Alliance atrocities in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan. However as the example below demonstrates, Western Mainstream Media (MSM) such as leading Australian (…)

"White Power USA": The Crisis of Race in America
by grtv
The inauguration of President Barack Obama was hailed as a turning point in US race relations. The country was said to be entering a new era of post-racial politics, on the path to a future of greater diversity and tolerance. But while crowds flocked to Washington to witness the swearing in, others were refusing to join the party.
Racially motivated threats against Obama rose to new heights in the first months of his presidency, (…)

Legal Authority: Hold US leaders Accountable for War Crimes
by Sherwood Ross Global Research, July 27, 2010
Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns.
“Unless and until this starts being done, and I stress the need for the gallows when the crime warrants it, we will never be without major crooks, without causers of major disasters, in big (…)

Israel’s Insane War on Iran Must Be Prevented
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Global Research, July 26, 2010
Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid ship headed for Gaza may prove to be the greatest strategic error the government has ever made. Like the Soweto riots in South Africa in 1976, or Bloody Sunday – the American civil rights march on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, where police opened fire and killed civilians – the Mavi Marmora affair crossed a red line. It has triggered an (…)

ECONOMIC PLAN FOR AMERICA
by James Quinn on Fri, 23 Jul 2010
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There are no easy solutions. There are only painful, more painful, and really, really painful solutions. Both mainstream corrupted political parties have had the chance to put the country back on a prudent fiscal path. They have both failed miserably. One party will spend the country into oblivion and the other country will try to democratize the world with their military machine. There (…)

Has always been believed that AIPAC and the hawks in the Pentagon acted as a shadow government in Washington, distort policy in terms of Israeli interests rather than the U.S., but the reality is that the Pro-Israeli lobby has real weight in the areas of power, but only because the U.S. and Israel share the same geopolitical interests.
However, at this time we would see a conflict of interest between the two sides, due to the new geopolitical concept prevailing in the Obama Administration, (…)

“The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, edited by Professor William A. Cook (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010) is a collection of articles by variously eminent humanitarian writers from around the world.
The book begins with an Acknowledgment of collaborators, writers, journals and of writers whose works were offered but could not be included in this collection. The editor then provides a series of succinct Biographies of the various authors (that are provided (…)

The shortage of basic agricultural products for food (wheat, corn, rice, sorghum and millet) and the increase of such bestial products in world markets that had the tip of iceberg in 2007, will presumably "in crescendo" along the next decade and reached its zenith in the horizon of 2018. In reaching that crisis, (whose first sketches and are profiled and finish with crudely drawn at the end of the decade) have contributed the following elements:
Economic Development suicide of Third World (…)