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A lengthy article, “Will Israel Attack Iran,” published in this week’s New York Times confirms that Israel has made advanced preparations for military strikes on Iran. The author—Ronen Bergman, a well-connected political analyst with the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth—concluded: “After speaking to many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012.”

Human Beings With Feet of Clay
And Self-Proclaimed Masters of the Universe
By Steven Earl Salmony

Humankind could soon come face to face with an incredible and unprecedented situation. We are spectacularly successful at doing something potentially ruinous of all we claim to be protecting and preserving as we ever more rampantly increase our exploitation of natural resources and continually increase our food production and distribution capabilities. Stupidly we hold fast to a wicked idea that, if we do not do these things, a catastrophe will follow

The Struggle Continues: US vs. Genuine Reforms
At The United Nations
By Ramzy Baroud

The country that has long been known to abuse its powers and privileges in the United Nations is now leading a campaign to reform the same organization. While UN reforms are welcomed, if not demanded, by many of its member states, there is little reason to believe the recent US crusade is actually genuine. Rather, it seems a clear attempt to stifle any semblance of democracy in the world’s leading international institution

Eyewitness To Israel's Ethnic Cleansing
By Bill Mullen

Purdue University professor Bill Mullen traveled to Palestine with a delegation of academics to find out about the obstacles facing Palestinian students and educators

Can Occupy Save Labor?
By Kevin Zeese

The uniting of union militancy with Americans in revolt seems to have turned this conflict into a victory for workers

Misuse Of Intelligence: Right To Dissent
By S.G.Vombatkere

The national and state intelligence agencies have advised the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that “ some rights organisations ” that decry state violence are purposefully or at least effectively taking sides with Maoists and “ actively helping spread the Maoist ideology ”. They have suggested that “ the Union government take steps to limit the activities of leading human rights organizations ”

Open Letter by The Victims of
Police Surveillance in Kerala
Press Statement

The Government elected by people like us has a duty to protect the privacy of the citizens of this country. We are shocked to see that the same Government is in reality infringing upon our privacy. We consider this as an open violation of one of our basic human rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution

Analyzing The ‘OBC-Minority’ Sub-Quota--Part II
By Khalid Anis Ansari

The recent lower caste movements within the non-Hindu religions like Islam, Christianity and Sikhism have foregrounded the presence of caste-based differentiation and discrimination within these communities in the public sphere

Nothing Special about Special Economic Zones
By Devinder Sharma

By October 2011, ministry of commerce had approved 583 SEZs. As per news reports, one-third of these – approximately 202 -- have been already withdrawn. A majority of those who are still struck are known to be looking for better escape options

26 January, 2012

Why Climate Change Will Make You Love
Big Government
By Christian Parenti

In the face of an unraveling climate system, there is no way that private enterprise alone will meet the threat. And though small “d” democracy and “community” may be key parts of a strong, functional, and fair society, volunteerism and “self-organization” alone will prove as incapable as private enterprise in responding to the massive challenges now beginning to unfold

Green Economy And Growth:
Fiddling While Rome Burns?
By Manu V. Mathai

A truly green economy must be a revolution of democracy and equality as manifest in the technology infrastructure that is shaped by society, and which, in turn, is shaped by it

Turkey Threatens Intervention Into Iraq
By James Cogan

Relations between the Turkish and Iraqi governments have deteriorated sharply. In a speech to parliament on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, the head of a Sunni Islam-based religious party, accused his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri al-Maliki, the leader of a Shiite-coalition, of promoting sectarian violence against the Sunni minority in Iraq

Comparing India And Australia On 26 January:
India 's Republic Day
And Australia 's Australia Day (Invasion Day)
By Dr Gideon Polya

26 January is the Republic Day of India and Australia Day. It is salutary to compare India , Australia and their considerable interactions, of which most - notably excepting those on the cricket field - have been kept from public perception

Analyzing The ‘OBC-Minority’ Sub-Quota—Part I
By Khalid Anis Ansari

The recent announcement of a 4.5% sub-quota for backward sections within minorities in the overall Central OBC quota by the UPA government on 22nd December, 2011 in the wake of elections in five states, including the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, has drawn in a number of reactions, some valid and others not

25 January, 2012

The Truth Behind The Coming
"Regime Change" In Syria
By Shamus Cooke

The United States appears to be using a strategy in Syria that it has perfected over the years, having succeeded most recently in Libya: arming small paramilitary groups loyal to U.S. interests that claim to speak for the native population; these militants then attack the targeted government the U.S. would like to see overthrown — including terrorist bombings — and when the attacked government defends itself, the U.S. cries "genocide" or "mass murder,” while calling for foreign military intervention. This is the strategy that the U.S. is using to channel the Arab Spring into the bloody dead end of foreign military intervention

IMF Warning On Global Downturn
By Nick Beams

The International Monetary Fund has added its voice to those of the World Bank and the United Nations in warning of a global slowdown and increased financial risks flowing from the eurozone crisis

Capital's Globe Wide Risks
By Farooque Chowdhury

Under the darkening shadow of capital's crisis hundreds of world capital bosses are meeting in Davos, a snow covered Swiss mountain village. On the eve of this annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), capital's salvation-searching convention, the Global Risk 2012 report “reveals a constellation of fiscal, demographic and societal risks signalling a dystopian future”

Killing Iraqis Makes Us Safer --
And Other SOTU Lies
By David Swanson

A deconstruction of Obama's State of the Union speech

Occupying Libido: Negotiating A Landscape Of
Hypocrisy And Hungry Ghosts
By Phil Rockstroh

Show your face to the world. Occupy libido by acts large and small, public and private

Is The Ocean An Alternative?
By Tom Murphy

As I cast about looking for reasons why I should not worry about our energy future, I find little solace when I look to the sea

Need Of The Hour: Green Investments
In The Marine Sector
By Marianne de Nazareth

The UNEP report, Green Economy in a Blue World, argues that the ecological health and economic productivity of marine and coastal ecosystems, which are currently in decline around the globe, can be boosted by shifting to a more sustainable economic paradigm that taps their natural potential - from generating renewable energy and promoting eco-tourism, to sustainable fisheries and transport

Declare Cold Wave As Disaster
By S. Mohammed Irshad

Cold Wave should be declared as a disaster to ensure at least bare minimum support to save lives. The people are exposed to extreme weather just because of being homeless

Confuse And Deceive – Email Interception In Kerala And The Formula For Political Survival
By Yaseen Ashraf

The issue of email snooping by the Kerala Special Branch CID has been distorted out of its true meaning by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his Government. The Government is now playing the good old trick of “confuse and deceive”

24 January, 2012

European Union Imposes Oil Embargo On Iran
By Peter Symonds

European Union (EU) foreign ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday imposed far-reaching economic sanctions on Iran, including an embargo on Iranian oil imports that will come into full force in July. The embargo is an act of economic war that heightens the danger of a slide into military hostilities in the Persian Gulf

Country By Country Analysis Of Fossil Fuel
Burning-Based Carbon Debt And Carbon Credit
By Dr Gideon Polya

A simpler and comprehensive analysis of Carbon Debt (Climate Debt) for all countries of the World is presented here that reports Carbon Debt in millions of tonnes of CO2 from fossil fuel burning alone (and ignores GHG pollution deriving from land use (agriculture and forestry), methane, nitrous oxide (N2O) and other GHGs

Shale Shocked: Fracking Gets Its Own
Occupy Movement
By Ellen Cantarow

This story isn’t about tragedy. It’s about a resistance movement that has arisen to challenge some of the most powerful corporations in history

Local Economies For A Global Future
By Jason F. McLennan

This article is about a simple, singular idea, yet the significance of the idea to modern society is profound and far-reaching. Here it is: In the near future anything heavy will become intensely local while at the same time the limits to things that are ‘light’, ideas, philosophies, information will travel even further than today—literally and figuratively. This is a new paradigm for humanity and it has huge implications for the complete reordering of society

Weapons ‘R’ Us
By William J. Astore

Sixty years ago, it was said that what’s good for General Motors is good for America. In 1955, as Bob Seger sang, we were young and strong and makin’ Thunderbirds. But today we’re playing a new tune with new lyrics: what’s good for Lockheed Martin or Boeing or [insert major-defense-contractor-of-your-choice here] is good for America

The Misadventure of Ron Paul
By Billy Wharton

The idea that Ron Paul offers a kind of alternative to mainstream politics falls apart quite easily upon inspection. There are three primary reasons for this – two relate to Paul himself and the other is a function of mainstream politics more generally. In the end, it is more accurate to say that Ron Paul is mainstream politics unmasked, a raw version of what both Democrats and Republicans desire to become if left to their own devices

A New Year Of Tough Times Ahead
By Jack A. Smith

The new year has dawned upon a deeply troubled America. Times are not good in the best of all possible nation states, which has suddenly discovered that the seven-league boots with which it is accustomed to stride the globe have become ill-fitting and down at the heels

Terror Error: Breakthrough in
13/7 Mumbai Blast Exposed
By TCN Staff Reporter

Hours after the Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria on Monday claimed to get a breakthrough in the July 13, 2011 Mumbai serial blasts by arresting three culprits, the Union Home Ministry said the Maharashtra ATS caught wrong men

Some Questions For The Maharashtra ATS Chief
By Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association

The Maharashtra ATS claims to have cracked the 13/7 blasts case. Its chief has revealed in a press conference that Indian Mujahideen was behind the Mumbai blasts. And yet, the Ministry of Home Affairs remains far from impressed—indeed, it appears rather irritated. And the press, also unusually, has been circumspect about his revelations

An Ode To The Women Who Became Statistics
By Samar

New Delhi, the capital of the biggest democracy of the world witnesses a rape every 18 hours, and an incident of sexual harassment takes place here every 14 hours

23 January, 2012

Protests In Romania Enter Their Second Week
By WSWS

As protests in Romania enter their second week, workers are facing increased pressure and threats from the ruling elite

Ten Steps For Radical Revolution In USA
By Bill Quigley

If those in government and those in power do not help the people do what is right, people seeking change must together exercise our human rights and bring about these changes directly. Dr. King and millions of others lived and worked for a radical revolution of values. We will as well

Are Wars Inevitable?
By William T. Hathaway

New research shows that war is not inevitable but rather a function of the stress a society is under. Our biological nature doesn't force us to war, it just gives us the potential for it. Without stress to provoke it, violence can remain one of the many unexpressed capacities our human evolution has given us

On Prospects Of Eco-Socialism
In Russia And The World
By Victor Postnikov

What is needed is neither capitalism, nor socialism, but a nature-based philosophy and democracy, where all creatures and plants have equal rights to flourish. Humanity badly needs a revival of its animistic roots, and luckily these have been preserved in the remaining aboriginal cultures

Israel Needs Blockbusters
By Uri Avnery

Five blocks dominate Israeli society. There are (1) the old Ashkenazim (Jews of European origin); (2) the Oriental (or “Sephardi”) Jews; (3) the religious (partly Ashkenazi, partly Oriental); (4) the “Russians”, immigrants from all the countries of the former Soviet union; and (5) the Palestinian-Arab citizens, who did not come from anywhere.Our first job is to break the barriers between the blocs, change reality, create a new Israeli society. We need blockbusters

China: Wukan Protest Shut Down
By John Chan

In a move to end 15 weeks of protest in Wukan village, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on January 15 appointed protest leader Lin Zuluan as the village’s new party secretary. He replaces Xue Chang, a local businessman who had run the village for four decades but is now under investigation for corruption

Lebanon's Maid of Darkness Facing
US Hates Crimes Investigation
By Franklin Lamb

Ms. Brigitte Gabriel has attracted the attention of the FBI investigating her organization, “Act for America!” for possible hate crimes and financial irregularities, according to US Congressional Judiciary Committee sources

The Plow And The iPhone: Conservative
Fantasies About The Miracles Of The Market
By Robert Jensen

Throughout history, the political projects of the wealthy have been driven by propaganda. There is no reason to expect that to change anytime soon, which means popular movements for economic justice and ecological sustainability not only have to struggle to change the future but also to tell the truth about the past

The Long Climb Up Hubbert's Peak
By Peter Goodchild

How much planning has been done, for example, to deal with the massive global famine that is approaching? None

22 January, 2012

Australian Report Predicts Peak Oil Around 2017
By Matt Mushalik

Australian Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics study predicts peak oil around 2017, followed by permanent decline

Transport Energy Futures: Long-Term
Oil Supply Trends And Projections
(Australian Peak Oil Report)
By Dr David Gargett

The modelling is forecasting what can be termed ‘the 2017 drop-off’. The outlook under a base case scenario is for a long decline in oil production to begin in 2017, which will stretch to the end of the century and beyond

Keystone XL | The Ivory Towers Crushing
The Last Remnants Of Climate Justice
By Cory Morningstar

Our climate justice movement has been co-opted by the plutocrats themselves. They own it. Yet no one even notices

Radical Environmentalists
By Michael A. Lewis

Lately, over the past five years or so, opponents of environmentalism have stepped up the ante at the table of public opinion. There is now an orchestrated effort to discredit environmentalists and environmentalism by calling us "radical environmentalists" and associating this appellation with "ecoterrorism."

The Sham And Shame of Slavoj Žižek's
“Honest Pessimism”
By Raymond Lotta

The December 2011-January 2012 issue of The Platypus Review features an interview with philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. It is a fusillade of distortion of the historical experience of revolution and socialism in the 20th century, accompanied by an egregiously uninformed and unprincipled attack on Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism

21 January, 2012

Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day
To Destabilize Climate
By Lester R. Brown

Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion in 2010. Of this, supports on the production side totaled some $100 billion. Supports for consumption exceeded $400 billion, with $193 billion for oil, $91 billion for natural gas, $3 billion for coal, and $122 billion spent subsidizing the use of fossil fuel-generated electricity. All together, governments are shelling out nearly $1.4 billion per day to further destabilize the earth’s climate

How The Pipeline Died And How To
Bury It For Good
By Jamie Henn

This Wednesday afternoon, the Obama administration rejected the permit for Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile oil pipeline that would have run from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The announcement is a huge victory for the grassroots climate movement

Ecology And The Pathology Of Capitalism
By Charles Sullivan

We are literally sacrificing the Earth’s life support systems and mortgaging the future, while attempting to satiate the greed of a few grotesquely wealthy individuals. Through lifelong indoctrination, Americans are persuaded that self-interested greed is in their best interest

Have Israel’s “Inner Circles” Discussed
Assassinating President Obama?
By Alan Hart

What is happening in America on the Republican side of the fence has about it the smell of what happened in Israel in the countdown to the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin by a Zionist fanatic. What do I mean?

World Peace Hanging By A Theread
By Fidel Castro Ruz

News is not only coming out of Iran and the Middle East, but also from other parts of Central Asia near the Middle East. These reports show the great complexity of the problems that can arise from this dangerous region

Iran War: US Eyes Mideast Gendarme Role
By Dr. Ismail Salami

The temptation of attacking Iran long entertained by Washington and Israel is gradually crystallizing into a reality of fear and angst and has already become an alarmingly worrisome idea even for those who are wont to see the glass half full

Human Rights Groups Charge NATO With
War Crimes In Libya
By Bill Van Auken

There is strong evidence that NATO carried out war crimes in its eight-month war for regime-change in Libya, according to a report released Thursday by Middle East human rights groups

King Who Condemned US Wars Again Betrayed
By War-Supporting Clergy’s Praise
By Jay Janson

We have just witnessed the annual birthday highlighted betrayal of Rev. KIng, with clergy leading the way, a betrayal of what King taught and was dedicated to when he was assassinated, namely, exposing the US overseas crimes against humanity for predatory investments, that were draining away men, money and resources. A review of clergy support of all US Wars no matter how blatantly unjust as the 1967 King had never existed

The Dilemma of Cow Slaughter in India
By Anshul Kumar Pandey

The Madhya Pradesh government's recently passed ‘GauVadhPratishedh (Sanshodhan) Act 2012' is a ridiculous piece of legislation and should be thoroughly criticized and debunked for its innate communal overtones. As a piece of legislation, it has set up new standards of intellectual and legislative bankruptcy of the political class of Madhya Pradesh and has exposed its obsession with injecting communal poison into the society

20 January, 2012

2011 Was Ninth-Hottest On Record
By Matthew McDermott

NASA has released data on Earth's global average surface temperature for 2011 showing that last year was the ninth-warmest since records began, in the late 1800s. Nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred since 2000—and the other warmest year was in 1998

US, Israel Coordinate Strategy Against Iran
By Peter Symonds

US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Martin Dempsey arrived in Israel yesterday for talks on Iran with top military and political leaders. As the Obama administration escalates its confrontation with Tehran, the obvious purpose of Dempsey’s visit is to coordinate hostile moves by the two countries against Iran

Spain’s Judge Baltasar Garzón On Trial
For Investigating Franco Crimes
By Vicky Short

Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón appeared in court January 17 in the first of three cases aimed at silencing him and thwarting his investigations. Garzón is accused of ordering illegal wiretaps of suspected members of the infamous “Gürtel” corruption network, many belonging to the Popular Party (PP), which won elections last November, and their lawyers to discover whether they cooperated in money-laundering operations

Blood On Whose Hands?
By Chase Madar

The “grave risks” involved in the publication of the War Logs and of those State Department documents have been wildly exaggerated. Embarrassment, yes. A look inside two grim wars and the workings of imperial diplomacy, yes. Blood, no

Working And Poor In The USA
By Bill Quigley

Millions of people in the US work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the US needs to dedicate itself to making work pay

Whiteness And The 99%
By Joel Olson

The key obstacle to building the 99% is left colorblindness, and the key to overcoming it is to put the struggles of communities of color at the center of this movement. It is the difference between a free world and the continued dominance of the 1%

Hunger Is A ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’,
Says Jean Ziegler
By Siv O'Neall

In his latest book “Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger”, Jean Ziegler talks about the current state of the world and the neoliberal politics of starvation of the poor, which has led to a crisis situation amounting to calculated murder. What we are witnessing today is the worst hunger crisis in human history is. And it is all because of human greed, colossal mismanagement for profit

Open Letter To Children Everywhere
By Steve Salmony

The Rio 20 Conference will occur in June 2012. Where are the scientists who are ready, willing and able to discuss openly, objectively and honorably the "mother" of all emerging and converging, human-induced global challenges looming before the human family on our watch: human overpopulation?

Basking In The Sun
By Tom Murphy

The low-tech nature of solar thermal makes it especially robust in tough times. I can imagine personally designing and building a passive solar home, flat-plate thermal collectors for hot water, and even a parabolic trough to create steam. I can’t say the same about a PV panel, a nuclear reactor, or geothermal wells kilometers deep. It gets my vote

What Is Our Eventual History?
By David Anderson

Could our insouciance soon drag us into a tragic period of human history referred to by those same French historians as a period of “histoire événementielle”, translated into English; “eventual history”, a period that could lead to the eventuality of a series of irreversible ecological tipping points leading to human survival in some meager form of existence or even the possibility of extinction?

The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues off Death Row -- Supporters Demand Transfer to General Population

An interview with Bret Grote of Human Rights Coalition By Hans Bennett of Prison Radio

Madhya Pradesh: Path Way To Hindu Rashtra
By Ram Puniyani

Recently (December 2011) Madhya Pradesh. Government’s Gau-Vansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Act (Bill for Protection of Cow Progeny) got the Presidential clearance. As per this act punishment for slaughtering the cow or its progeny, transporting them to slaughter house, eating and storing beef, is punishable with a fine of RS 5000 and prison term up to seven years

19 January, 2012

World Economy Set For Another Major Downturn
By Nick Beams

The World Bank has issued a grim forecast on the outlook for the world economy, with the potential for a crisis worse than that which followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The warning was contained in the Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report, issued yesterday

Western Oil Firms Big Winners In Iraq
By Sherwood Ross

Western oil producers have emerged as the big winners of the Iraq war. A group led by BP will receive $2 billion per year to develop Iraq’s Rumalia field and a Shell-led group is to get $913 million per year. An Exxon-led group is to get $1.6 billion per year

Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
By Chris Hedges

I suspect National Defense Authorization Act passed because the corporations, seeing the unrest in the streets, knowing that things are about to get much worse, worrying that the Occupy movement will expand, do not trust the police to protect them. They want to be able to call in the Army. And now they can

The Myth of “Isolated” Iran
By Pepe Escobar

Following the money in the Iran crisis

U.S.-Israeli Assault On Iran Escalates –
Danger of War Grows
By Larry Everest

Ground is being laid daily in the headlines and statements by politicians of every stripe in mainstream U.S. politics calling for aggression against Iran—all justified by unsubstantiated assertions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons

Dancing On History’s Edge: Why This Is
An Amazing Time To Be Alive
By Dianne Monroe

We live in a time when each of our voices and visions are vitally needed for earth’s and humanity’s future. It is a time when the question is not so much how we survive the demise of what has been, as how we each contribute to what is new and arising. Rooting ourselves in what we bring to these times and share with the future is much more than a way to anchor ourselves through the storms of this great crumbling

Global Energy And Resources
By Peter Goodchild

Modern industrial society is composed of a triad of fossil fuels, metals, and electricity. The three are intricately connected and all three are hitting peak availability

Censorship In The Green Mountains
By Rosemarie Jackowski

Will the First Amendment ever be restored in Vermont ? I'm not holding my breath. Vermont has become the land of book-banning, censorship, and the arrest of those who try to make a difference. When any candidate is silenced, when any book is banned - every citizen should react

Israel As World's First Bunker State
By Jonathana Cook

The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as Israel was established. The purpose of the draconian 1954 Prevention of Infiltration Law was to lock up any Palestinian who managed to slip past the snipers guarding the new state’s borders

Waiting For False Prophets: The Puzzling
Matter Of The Israeli Liberals
By Ramzy Baroud

To hold hope in the new election cycle in Israel is like waiting for false prophets. No salvation will be heralded by some imagined center-left party that will bring “an end to the ultra-rightist frenzy,” as hoped by Avnery

UK TV Series “The Promise” Elicits
Zionist Defamation Of Anti-Racist Jews
By Dr Gideon Polya

Decent anti-racist humanitarian Jews and indeed all decent people are obliged to speak out against the genocidal crimes of racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel . The false defamation of anti-racist humanitarian Jews as “anti-Semites” can be seen as anti-Semitism itself as can the utterly false conflation of the genocidal atrocities of Apartheid Israel with decent, anti-racist Jews

21st Century Racism
By Mary Shaw

Bigotry has its roots in insecurity, and in fear of the unknown. Might does not make right. But I continue to shudder at the possibilities of what can happen as these frightened white men - the 1% - continue to control our country's wealth and power

Extreme Inequality or Democracy?
By Ron Forthofer

Given the dire straits – high levels of unemployment and underemployment, homelessness, lack of health insurance, home foreclosures, huge credit card debts and college loan debts, shortages of food - that many Americans face today, our extreme inequality is intolerable. The current situation demands a drastic overhaul of our corrupt political/economic system to end and to prevent future extreme inequality. Unless we act now, control by the wealthy and powerful will be solidified

Managing Disasters And Displacement
By S.G.Vombatkere

The article presents the political and economic impacts of various kinds of natural and man-made disasters and associated displacement of populations, and argues for a wider and more inclusive definition of disasters in the interest of human rights, social justice and equity for the victims of disasters

Can We Afford Another Unquestionable Mahatma?
By Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.

A critique of the Anna Hazare movement

Tweeting Troubles: Why Kapil Sibal
Is Not An idiot!
By Samar

Kapil Sibal's rants against the social networking sites opened a new debate. They hinted of an Orwellian return into the dreaded days of emergency. What they did not hint at though was the fact that the world has changed a lot. So much so, that even an all pervasive state like China cannot effectively censor the internet. Think of that, and of the efficiency of Indian officialdom and you know what would be the future of censorship

15 January, 2012

Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000
U.S. Troops To Libya?
By Cynthia McKinney

It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya

Will A Pro-Gadhafi “Green Revolution”
Topple The NTC?
By Franklin Lamb

The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a “new democratic Libya” that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is scheduled to be replaced

US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
By Peter Symonds

The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de facto embargo on Iranian oil exports

And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
By Toby O’Ryan

Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?

What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him
In Prison To Keep Him From Telling?
By Cynthia McKinney

Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administration's reason for going to war against Iraq

The American Spirit: The War Of Urination
By Dr. Nath Aldalala'a

The recent release of the video of the U.S.Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters tells us much about the temporality of the War on Terror

Voters Choice: Ron Paul or Bibi Netanyahu
By William A. Cook

What we know truly is that America is no longer the nation of the free citizen, since we are now subject to the fear that resides in the gut when threatened by unsubstantiated allegations of suspicion as a terrorist that can result in indefinite detention without trial or due process. Such is the decline of the once proud and free experiment that was the United States of America

King Would Have Demanded Nuremberg Style
Indictment Of US Leaders And We Will!
By Jay Janson

When a gang robs a bank, depositors don't go into the street to protest, expecting the criminals to be arrested, tried and jailed. King condemned the massive crimes against humanity that most Americans were not seeing as such. Knowing from experience that the financial element ruling society owned judges on the courts, he limited himself to "everyone must protest!" Why King would have called for indictments is explained

1948
By Dr Salim Nazzal

What would be the picture of Palestine and the region without 1948, or without the transplantation of Zionist state?

Jaypee And Mahyco As Indian Express Sponsors:
There Is Conflict Of Interest Here, Sir
By Concerned Citizens

On January 10 and 11, 2012, half page advertisements in the Indian Express newspaper announced that on Jan 16, 2012 the IE Excellence in Journalism awards will be given. The advertisement also said that the main sponsor is Jaypee Group and among other sponsors include the Mahyco Monsanto. This raises questions about journalistic ethics

13 January, 2012

India To Pay For Iran Crude In Rupees
By Press TV

In the wake of the US decision to impose fresh sanctions against the Islamic Republic that would target its oil exports, India announces plans to pay for the Iranian crude it imports in rupees

Nuclear Assassinations Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
By Dr. Ismail Salami

Central to the circle of the prime suspects in the nuclear assassinations is the IAEA itself. About two weeks ago, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan had reportedly met the agency inspectors. Isn't it strange that the nuclear scientist was killed only two weeks after his meeting with the IAEA inspectors? Another point which actually strengthens the speculation is that the names and identities of Iranian nuclear scientists who have so far been assassinated have been published in the list of sanctions issued by the IAEA

Obama’s New War Doctrine Fuels Debate In China
By John Chan

Last week’s announcement by President Barack Obama of a new strategic focus on China has intensified a debate already underway in Chinese ruling circles over how to respond to Washington’s confrontational stance and threat of military conflict

Americans can Choose Between Being American
Or Human but Not Both Presently
By Jay Janson

Some day in the perhaps not so distant future, after Americans are humiliated by the defeat of their government's attempt to control and exploit every bit of the planet and its inhabitants, they will be finally free to rehabilitate themselves as the Germans did after suffering through their Nazi era

The Perils of 2012
By Joseph E. Stiglitz

As a result, global economic rebalancing is likely to accelerate, almost inevitably giving rise to political tensions. With all of the problems confronting the global economy, we will be lucky if these strains do not begin to manifest themselves within the next twelve months

Honeybee Problem Nearing A ‘Critical Point’
By Claire Thompson

Colony Collapse Disorder is a myth, neurotoxic pesticide causes bee deaths

How Much Is An Earth, And Do You Have
One In Extra Large?
By David Swanson

A new book suggests that "It's the economy, stupid," may be more than political strategy; it may also be the key to environmental sustainability. The book is "Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet," by Kendra Pierre-Louis. The argument developed is not just that the consumer choices of an individual won't save the planet without collective action, but also that the only collective action that will save us is abandoning the whole idea of consumer choices

When The World Outlawed War:
David Swanson's New Book
By Bruce Levine

In his previous book War is a Lie, Swanson made the case for the abolition of war as an instrument of national policy, and his new book, When the World Outlawed War, provides an historical example of just how powerful war abolitionism can be

Only Lip-Sympathy For The Malnourished
By Devinder Sharma

Although Prime Minister Manmohan Singh termed malnutrition a national shame, it appears as if only the legislators and the parliamentarians are the ones who are affected

AIDS in India: What Can The Indian Government
Do Different?
By Dr. Sukant Khurana & Dr. Gaurav Sharma

As another world AIDS day passes by and the epidemic shows no sign of end, we need to evaluate the status of AIDS in India

Kashmir Saga 2012
By Abdul Majid Zargar

Mohammad Altaf Sood, 22, was mercilessly killed in CISF firing at Boniyar providing a grim reminder of the reality that human life in Kashmir continues to be dispensable. And dust had barely settled when another soul was demolished at Sopore. An innocent civilian, again a young man, was brutally done to death while crying for help in an injured condition