Guantanamo: Obama Betrays His Promises and the Rule of Law
United States President Obama issued an executive order on Monday, March 7, 2011 setting up indefinite detention at Guantanamo. Detainee’s cases will go under a “periodic administrative review.” The Obama administration also announced that it will use military commissions for “new terrorism cases.” Some of the prisoners rotting at Guantanamo have been detained by the […]
Overpopulation, Climate Change, Food Crisis, War: The Horsemen Of Apocalyptic Capitalism
In the last few years, the prophecies or prognostics of doom and gloom have been coming fast and furious. It is of course the Christian fundamentalist end of days scenario, but it is also featured in other fairy tales or conspiracy theory assumptions such as the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar. While the […]
Arab Revolution: Is Iraq Next?
The US media and most world news outlets (including the BBC) have been strangely silent over the situation in Iraq. Of course it can be explained by the fact that our current news cycle is on steroid. Tracking the Arab revolution’s progress is overwhelming even for big news outlets. Libya and the armed revolution to […]
America: In God We Trust, But Money We Worship
The back of every dollar bill features the inscription: In God We Trust. While this inscription seems to be borderline unconstitutional in the context of separation of church and state, there is an even more disturbing and contradictory aspect to it, which is the mixture of religion and money. Although a large majority of Americans claim […]
Israel’s Illegal Settlements: The US Goes Rogue At The UN
On Friday, the United States stood alone and vetoed an Arab resolution at the United Nations Security Council. The resolution strongly condemned Israeli illegal settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem as a “major obstacle to peace”. All 14 other members of the UN Security Council voted in favor […]
