The Runaway General (Michael Hastings)

Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House June 22, 2010 (Rolling Stone) -- "How' ...

A Zionist State of Mind, A Dreamscape Of Ghosts: One Jew's Hard Awakening (Phil Rockstroh)

Phil Rockstroh Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust June 18, 2010 -- Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I wa ...

Middle East is Changing, and Ankara Knows It (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 16, 2010 -- "Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals." The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister Re ...

CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years (Arab News)

June 17, 2010 -- (Arab News) -- A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years. The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movem ...

Cowardly Progressives (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

June 7, 2010 -- After listening to a number of speeches at a national conference of progressives I come to this conclusion: Progressives are more than eager to take credit for electing President Obam ...

Vulnerable Nations at Copenhagen Summit Reject 2C Target | John Vidal

Alliance of Small Island States say any deal that allows temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C is 'not negotiable' Dec. 10, 2009 (Guardian) -- More than half the world's countries say they are deter ...

The Devil and Mr. Obama | Joe Bageant

Barack promised change -- and sure enough, things changed for the worse (Note: Patrick Ward, associate editor of the UK's Socialist Review asked Joe to write a piece for the party publication. This i ...

The editorial seen around the world | Mark Leon Goldberg

A version of the same editorial calling for action in Copenhagen ran in 56 newspapers in 45 countries today. Many on the front page. This unprecedented effort was spearheaded by the Guardian. Good fo ...

Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke 'Complicit' in Financial Crisis and Should Go | Amy Goodman

Dec. 4, 2009 (Democracy Now) -- In an extended interview, we speak with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernan ...

BOOKS: A Choice of Enemies - America Confronts the Middle East, By Lawrence Freedman (Jim Miles)

A Choice of Enemies -- America Confronts the Middle East. Lawrence Freedman. Anchor Canada (Random House). 2009. Nov. 17, 2009 -- The subtitle to this text carries an interesting choice of active ver ...

BOOKS: Speak English | Mike Palecek

Now Available from CWG Press Reviewers are calling this new novel from Mike Palecek a MUST READ. Here's a link to Joan Wile's review on Rag Blog: Sci-fi, conspiracy theories and politics merge: Speak ...