To Bomb Or Not To Bomb
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Barak have been working hard to find sympathy for their craving to bomb Iran.
View ArticleThe Emperor Has No Clothes
That's not a reference to a brute for a husband or a bitch for a bride. It's a question motivated by the behaviour of the mindless louts who enjoy holding sacrificial lambs as hostages and killing...
View ArticleContagious Paranoia
Five years ago I wrote an article on mass paranoia. At the time I argued that U.S. and Israeli paranoia threaten to lead the entire world to oblivion.
View ArticleThe Meaning of Altruism
When I was a college freshman, I became completely enamoured with Ayn Rand. As a literary heroin, she surpassed so many of my early heroes.
View ArticleRising From The Ashes
If I ask what is the meaning of the word Phoenix, how would you respond?
View ArticleThe Assembly Line Culture
My father managed a branch of a steel pipe making company in Pennsylvania. I was about ten or 11 the first time he took me on a tour of his company.
View ArticleFodder for Extremist
Four joint hosts of an MSNBC programme called Cycle decided to open a Pandora's Box and discuss some of America's problems in the Middle East.
View ArticleAmerican Values
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.
View ArticlePresidential Debate
The coming U.S. elections have monopolized the attention of the American mainstream media and voters.
View ArticleAmerica Invents Real-Life Matrix
They were lawless, brutal, unforgiving and a model for the governments they both battled and served. A few notable figures perfected terrorism unlike any before or after.
View ArticleWho Is The Middle Class
It's sad that Barak Obama had to be the first black to be elected president. Ever since he got into office, Obama has been leaning over backward to avoid being patronising, or looking like it, to...
View ArticleGreatest Threat To Democracy
I'm tired of the power brokers whose only concern is whether or not the storms of nature and the storms of mankind will affect their outsourced pocketbooks.
View ArticleBeating of War Drums
Some of the important news gets reported quickly and is then forgotten just as hurriedly.
View ArticleStop Prologues To War
The original Latin of the expression "if you want peace, prepare for war" comes from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus).
View ArticleMurdering The Truth
Judging from the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza with its bombs and missiles, Palestinian journalists have been doing their best to get the news reported.
View ArticleDeadly Drones
Relatively little has appeared in the mainstream media about recent drone warfare. Following 9/11, the development and use of drones has been a major military goal for both the U.S. and the U.K.
View ArticleWho Are The Real Terrorist?
The US Code defines terrorism as a crime that appears to be intended to (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion or (iii)...
View ArticleParanoia Run Wild
Thinking ahead is one thing. Pre-emptive thinking is paranoia run wild.
View ArticleHarnessing The Imagination
One of the most dismal futuristic images I've seen was recently painted by Chris Hedges in the opening of an article he entitled A Time for "Sublime Madness".
View ArticleA Culture of Violence
Discussions of guns and who owns them or lobbies for them arise every time there's a mass murder, like that of the children in Connecticut recently.
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