America's Planned Nuclear Attack on Libya -- Part I: On The Drawing Board (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)

Mar. 30, 2011 (GlobalResearch.ca) -- A war on Libya has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than 20 years. Using nukes against Libya was first envisaged in 1996. On Apr. 14th 1986, Ron ...

Who Owns The World? The Contours of Global Order (Noam Chomsky)

Apr. 21, 2011 (Tom Dispatch) -- The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces -- coinciding, fortuitously, with a re ...

Spain Declines to Investigate Alleged Guantanamo Bay Torture after Receiving US Assurances (AP)

Apr. 14, 2011 -- MADRID (AP) -- A Spanish judge has thrown out a request that he probe six senior Bush administration officials accused of creating a legal framework for the torture of terror suspect ...

The New Colonialism (Paul Craig Roberts)

Paul Craig Roberts Apr. 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- What we are observing in Libya is the rebirth of colonialism. Only this time it is not individual European governments competing for em ...

BOOKS: Deadly Embrace -- Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. By Bruce Riedel (Jim Miles)

Deadly Embrace - Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institute Press, Washington, D.C. 2011. Mar. 28, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Given the nature of even ...

5 Reasons Why Technology Can Never Be Neutral (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Mar. 27, 2011 -- It's repeated so often that few of us even stop to question its validity: "Technology is neutral. It's only as good or as bad as those using it." Here a ...

Natural Flow of History: Hamas Should Rethink Charter (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 24, 2011 -- “Now it is time to naturalize the flow of history,” wrote Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (British Guardian, Mar. 16, 2011). Th ...

US Army 'Kill Team' in Afghanistan Posed for Photos of Murdered Civilians (Jon Boone)

Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal Mar. 21, 2011 (The Guardian) -- Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for p ...

All Out War on Libya: Surge in the Price of Crude Oil (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)

"Humanitarian Wars are Good for Business"... Speculators Applaud... This is Part III of a three-part article. PART I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya ...

US begins assault against Libyan air defenses (AP)

Mar. 19, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military attacked Moammar Gadhafi's air defenses Saturday with strikes along the Libyan coast that were launched by Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. A s ...

A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 10, 2011 -- A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a p ...