By Stuart Littlewood Is this what we voted for? Is this what Western diplomacy has come to in the 21st century? Thank heaven for Dr David Morrison’s very timely briefing document entitled “Iran hasn’t got […]

By Eric Walberg – Cairo  Russia’s electoral scene has been transformed in the past two months, without a doubt inspired by the political winds from the Middle East and the earlier colour revolutions in Russia’s […]

By Paul Craig Roberts Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, ‘Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel […]

By Uri Avnery Jerusalem is abuzz with brilliant new ideas. The brightest minds of our political establishment are grappling with the problems created by the ongoing Arab revolution that is reshaping the landscape around us. […]

By Ralph Nader Colman McCarthy, a former Washington Post writer and founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, must be very happy with the news from Egypt. For twenty-five years, McCarthy has been persuading high […]

By Andrew I. Killgore Guilt By Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War; By Jeff Gates, State Street Publications, 2008, paperback, 320 pp. Guilt By Association is an initially confusing masterpiece almost too […]

By Uri Avnery Hundreds of thousands of Iranian citizens pour into the streets in order to protest against their government! What a wonderful sight! Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz that he envies the Iranians. And […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai At the height of the Asian financial crisis and meltdown of Russia in 1990s, a pundit said that Boris Yeltsin went to bed drunk and Brazil woke up with […]

By Deepak Tripathi In a period of unprecedented financial upheaval, the recent surge in violence in South Asia is perhaps receiving less notice in the west than it deserves.  The audacity of attacks by the […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more […]

By Ivan Simic, Belgrade, Serbia On August 8, 2008, South Ossetia attracted world’s attention when Russian military forces entered Georgian territory, and seriously interfered in the Georgian-South Ossetian unresolved conflict. This conflict is well known […]

By Ivan Simic – Belgrade Recently, former 1st President of Republika Srpska, and one of the world most wanted fugitives, Radovan Karadzic, was arrested in Belgrade by the Serbian authorities after an alleged tip-off from […]

By Gaither Stewart – Rome “With Russia it’s always like that,” writes contemporary Russia’s most read author, Viktor Pelevin. “You admire it and you cry, but when you look at what you admire up close, […]

By Caelum Moffatt On February 18, 16 countries including the US and European states such as the UK and France, officially recognized the declaration of independence announced by Kosovo’s provisional government just a day earlier. […]

By Mike Whitney To PalestineChronicle.com The transcript you weren’t supposed to see: On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an hour and a half-long press conference which was attended by many members of the world […]