Are Islamist Fundamentalists Hijacking The Arab Revolution?
Either in Egypt, Tunisia or Libya, Islamist parties are making some serious gains in the political power plays following the Arab revolution. It is the case for Tunisia and Egypt, and it is likely to spread to Libya in the post-Qaddafi era. It could happen in Syria, unless the Al-Assad brothers maintain their brutal grip […]
Occupy and Anonymous: Challenging the World Order of Corporate Imperialism
Some people are under the illusion that national borders still matter. If they do for the global 99 percent, borders have become completely obsolete for the 0.01 percent global corporate, governmental, and financial elite controlling world’s affairs. Currencies and products flow at lightning speed between all the markets. Today, a prince from Saudi Arabia, Alwaleed […]
Iraq War: US Troops are Out, but Blackwater and Halliburton Will Stay
It is official: the last United States troops left Iraq on December 17, 2011. Nevertheless, the US occupation of the country is far from over. American mainstream media are trumpeting that the war in Iraq is over, but the war has become a “pacification” process. The war might be over for the Pentagon, but now […]
NDAA, Patriot Act, and DHS: Welcome to the Police State of America!
President Obama, despite earlier promises to veto it, will sign the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA). The NDAA contains dangerous provisions concerning indefinite detention of suspects without trial, and is yet another tool of “legal” repression with the Patriot Act and the omnipresent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to crack down on basic human […]
Occupy and The Mayan Calendar: Will 2012 Be the Year of a Global Revolution?
Various prophecies of doom and gloom or even of an Apocalypse have been linked to calendar year 2012. An Apocalypse ( Greek etymology: “lifting the veil” or “revelation”) is often wrongly viewed as the end of all things, but of course the very etymology of the word contradicts this notion. As a powerful revelation, an […]
