Our role in Haiti’s plight If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it By Peter Hallward, guardian.co.uk, Jan. 13, 2010 Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive…
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Flight 253: Anatomy of a Cover-Up
by Tom Burghardt, Global Research, Jan. 11, 2010 New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up. With the White House in crisis mode since the…
Africom – Latest U.S. Bid to Recolonise the Continent
by Tichaona Nhamoyebonde, Global Research, Jan. 9, 2010 African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that…
Genocide in Gaza?
When Does It Become Genocide? By Nadia Hijab, Counterpunch, Jan. 5, 2010 During a visit to Ramallah a year ago while the Israeli bombardment of Gaza was underway, I shared my fears with a close Palestinian friend. “It may sound…
Profiling for a safer Canada
By Paul S. Graham, January 9, 2010 Opponents of profiling are missing the point. Profiling makes a lot of sense. The main problem is that we are profiling the wrong kinds of people. Instead of watching out for people who…
America’s march to war in Yemen
The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint By F. William Engdahl, Global Research, January 5, 2010 On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to…
America’s Drug-Corrupted War
A British soldier keeps watch while on foot patrol in a poppy field in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan on March 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) More photos at Boston.com. by Prof Peter Dale Scott, Global Research, January 1, 2010 The…
Is Obama walking into an Al-Qaeda trap?
Touch Yemen, Get Burned By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 31, 2009 We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned…
Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010
By John Pilger, Dec. 31, 2009 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future:…
Tales from Yes-we-can-istan
By William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report, December 9, 2009 All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” … Whatever are they talking about? Here’s what I wrote in this report…