The Empire Is Collapsing, and Americans Will Be the Last to Know
50 years from now historians will probably be writing about the fall of the American empire. But history is writing itself furiously in the present, accelerated by the revolution of global freedom of information. What would have taken years to unlikely gather is accessible to anyone with a few strokes on a computer keyboard. So […]
Egypt: An Autocracy Endorsed By The United States
By Anthony Zeitouni The results of the parliamentary election in Egypt are known even before election day, Sunday, November 28, because the ruling party of President Mubarak is once again manipulating the people of Egypt to win the race and to marginalize all others, from the Muslim Brotherhood group (an Egyptian political-religious party banned by […]
Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans
The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it managed to rewrite its own history into a mythological fantasy. The concepts of liberty, freedom and free enterprise in the “land of the free, home of the brave” are a mere spin. The US was […]
NATO: The Armed Fist of the Global Police State
The NATO summit is wrapping up in Portugal today; the main topics on the agenda were to decide the fate of Afghanistan, and also to adopt a new “strategic concept” for the alliance. On the side of the summit, NATO also courted former enemy Russia to get it more involved and have it offer substantial […]
Haiti: Deadly Clashes Erupt As UN Forces Are Blamed For Cholera
The clashes between Haitian protesters and UN peacekeepers erupted in Cap-Haitien, the country’s second largest city after its capital Port-au-Prince, and in the central town of Hinche.
