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Promises and betrayals
Friday 09th May 2008
Seven Pillars of Wisdom was hailed on its first appearance as a historical and literary masterpiece. But, argues Robert Fisk, this memoir of the Arab revolt, and T E Lawrence's other writings, also offer prescient warnings about western policy in the Middle East.
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The US: Your masters of the universe
Friday 09th May 2008
The US Air Force's new slogan, "Air Force - Above All" conveys the basic precept that mastery of the air means mastery of the ground. Yet the air force seeks more than that. It wants to extend its "mastery" to space and even to cyberspace. This is a disturbing manifestation of the military's quest for "full spectrum dominance", achieved at debilitating cost to the American taxpayer - and a potentially destabilizing one to the planet. It takes shock and awe to a new level of barbarity!
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The Gulf's currency solution
Friday 09th May 2008
The declining value of the US dollar, and with it the wealth of all countries linked to it, has prompted US-friendly oil states such as Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to consider ending their US dollar currency pegs. The history of the region holds the answer to their quest for an alternative.
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Iran blames foreign-linked group for Shiraz attack
Friday 09th May 2008
As demonization of Iran increases, US-designated terrorist groups are encouraged to unleash terror on civilians. Foreign jihadists and the cultist Mujahideen e-Khalq are attempting to destabilize Iran with the financial and military backing of regional and western countries.
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Israeli PM denies taking bribes
Friday 09th May 2008
From a president charged for rape, to a comatose former prime minister and a current one accused of sleaze and corruption, the Judaic state lies mutilated at the hands of its protectors. For all the triumphalism of its religious ethic, the criminal antics of its leaders simply lays bare the true nature of the zionist project.
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Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
Friday 09th May 2008
Hired guns are running riot in Iraq as they dutifully carry out Washington's dirty work. Wanton killings and abuse of civilians are the norm rather than an exception as these psychopathic death squads unleash shock and awe barbarity on an unprecedented scale. Their handler in Washington, chief psychopath in team-Bush, Dick Cheney, must be summarily dispatched to the Hague, on his departure from the White House, to face war crimes charges.
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Malaysian court allows Muslim convert to go back to Buddhism
Friday 09th May 2008
A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights. The Shariah court in Penang granted Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah's request to be declared a non-Muslim. She embraced Islam in 1998 because she wanted to marry an Iranian, but claimed she never truly practiced the religion.
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Academics 'trying to revive Israel boycott'
Friday 09th May 2008
Apologists for zionist ethnic cleansing, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity are determined to maintain the staus quo that encourages the gradual annihilation of the Palestinian people. These cheerleaders need to be ostracised and shamed for providing decades of intellectual cover for these crimes.
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Sugar's fame fails to win him place in Jewish power list
Friday 09th May 2008
The Jewish Power 100 list names the people deemed to be the most influential in shaping British Jewish life. The Power 100 features rabbis, philanthropists, journalists and academics. It also includes non-Jews, so Gordon Brown is a new entry at 29, although his position is 13 places lower than his predecessor, Tony Blair. The top spot is retained by Sir Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi for the biggest Jewish movement in the country, the United Synagogues.
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G7 loses grip on global policy to O5
Thursday 08th May 2008
The world's seven leading economies until recently had the power to effect coherence to the policies of the great triumvirate of the international economic system - the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. No longer. Developing nations grouped as Outreach 5 have taken control and are not going to return it
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