Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, after Asia. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. -Bard
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BOOKS: After Empire -- The Birth of a Multipolar World. By Dilip Hiro (Jim Miles)
After Empire - The Birth of a Multipolar World. Dilip Hiro. Nation Books, Perseus, New York, 2010. Apr. 25, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Modern history and current events are aligned in this ...
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US Rethinks Strategy: War as Opportunity in Libya (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Apr. 27, 2011 -- The brutality of Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi, and his refusal to concede power, is costing Libya much more than innocent lives. The country is ...
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Libya: Another Neocon War (David Swanson)
Apr. 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The US department of justice (DOJ) has submitted a written defence of the U.S. role in this new war in Libya to the U.S. Congress. The DOJ claims the ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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). ...
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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 ...
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