US Foreign And Budget Policies: Putting Bandages On The Titanic
Egypt And Tunisia: Real Hope And Change We Can All Believe In When he was elected in 2008, President Obama brought a sense of hope for real changes not only in the United States but abroad. Some were naively hoping that the new US administration could be a catalyst for a peaceful global revolution which […]
Egypt After Mubarak: The Army Should Only Be The Revolution’s Guarantor
On Friday, the only possible outcome of the Egyptian revolution occurred: A peaceful military coup deposing Hosni Mubarak. Dictator Mubarak has finally step down, and at this juncture it seems that his Vice President, Omar Suleiman, will be largely sidelined in the transition process. A military council will sack the cabinet, dissolve the parliament and […]
Patriot Act: Protecting You From Freedom And Democracy
On Tuesday, Congress is voting on the renewal of three key provisions of the Patriot Act. There is nothing patriotic about the Patriot Act, unless you define patriotism as the passivity of citizens giving up their own civil liberties for the illusion of “security” under the constant intrusive eyes of an Orwellian Big Brother government. […]
Will The Secular Arab Revolution’s Domino Effect Reach Iran?
While the outcome of the Egyptian revolution is impossible to predict and hard to forecast, what the events have fully exposed are the incredible shortcomings of the United States foreign policy. Analysts at the CIA, diplomats at the State Department and the so called brilliant people of the Council On Foreign Relations never saw the […]
Is America Already Bankrupt?
The United States national debt has passed $14 trillion. For each dollar spend by the federal government 40 cents is borrowed. So technically, the US is already bankrupt because it has a debt that is almost four times the size of its economy. Lawmakers in Congress are saying that their major priority is to tackle […]
