Crisis Batters Global Faith in Capitalism
- Gregor Peter Schmitz
A new Pew survey has identified steep declines in support for capitalism around the world.
The global economic crisis has hit millions where it hurts the most: in the pocketbook. But a study released Thursday by the US-based Pew Research Center also ...
There will be hell to pay for NATO's Holy War
- Pepe Escobar
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is running out of rhetorical ammunition in the US's Holy War against Syria. Perhaps it's the strain of launching a NATO war bypassing the UN Security Council. Perhaps it's the strain of being eaten for breakfast ...
Welcome to 'democraship': The Coups in Paraguay and Egypt
- Pepe Escobar
Let's start with a bomb. Over 10 days ago a new brand of coup d'etat took place in Paraguay against elected president Fernando Lugo. It was virtually unnoticed by global corporate media.
Anything unexpected? Not really. A March 2009 cable from the US ...
How Julian Assange's private life helped conceal the real triumph of WikiLeaks
- Patrick Cockburn
As Julian Assange evades arrest by taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge to escape extradition to Sweden, and possibly the US, British commentators have targeted him with shrill abuse. They almost froth with rage as they cite petty ...
Iraq, Libya, Syria: We have no right to play God - The Evil of Our Interventionist Wars
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
In a traditional cowboy movie, we know what to do: we look for the guy wearing the white hat to be sure who to cheer, and for the one wearing the black hat to know who deserves to die, preferably gruesomely, before the credits roll. If Hollywood ...
Stuff White People Like n.135 Humanitarian Intervention
- Marc Michael
I usually get along with white people. For starters, I grew up in a white country. Some of my best friends are white. In my long history of befriending them, I have learnt one thing: if you want to retain white friends, you must adhere to a number ...
Colombia Impaled: Femicide and State Terror
- José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
The brutal murder, torture and rape of Rosa Elvira Cely, in the middle of Bogota’s National Park, has led to a justifiable wave of indignation across the whole country. The Colombian media, who are now tearing their hair out in horror at the impaling ...
Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Arab-Islamic world
- Mona Eltahawy منى الطحاوي
In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep ...
Iran and Europe, 'till death do us part
- Pepe Escobar
So the grand Barack Obama administration foreign policy strategy of trying to square the circle between an Iranian nuclear deal and getting the eurozone economy ...
NATO occupies sweet home Chicago
- Pepe Escobar
So the anthem now goes something like this: C'mon, baby don't you wanna go/back to that same old place/sweet home ring of steel Chicago.
Robert Johnson ...
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