Source Mondoweiss by Seham on February 24, 2011 If he wasn’t he would be analyzing the events in the region and scrambling desperately to make peace with surrounding Arab countries.  Instead, since the fall of Ben Ali and Mubarak and now the impending fall of Qadhafi the world is witnessing increased brutality and cruelty by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people, in particular the last few weeks Israelis have targeted children which they are harassing and arresting at alarming rates.  But, aside from this inhuman treatment of young children the pace at which Palestinians are displaced from their homes has not slowed down, see ……. [Full Post]

Original article: The Islamabad Globe – 14 February 2011 Undoubtedly this is the biggest scandal in US Foreign relations since the US was shot down by the Soviets in the sixties. Then, as now, both sides played out the drama in an iterative manner–neither side letting the other know how much they know. There are clear indications that there is much more to the “Raymond Davis” affair than the Pakistanis are letting on. THis isn’t about murder and diplomatic immunity. This is mush bigger. Something is very wrong with this picture, and Islamabad is tight lipped because it now has concrete evidence that Mr “Raymond ……. [Full Post]

For those whose understanding of the world is moulded and shaped by the Western mainstream media, this poll will likely come as a bit of a shock; and especially so in light of MSM reports about the latest WikiLeaks revelations. It is the latest in a series of annual polls conducted by Zogby International in conjunction with the University of Maryland and the Brookings Institute and published in August 2010. There can hardly be a Western outlet that has NOT reported the covert urgings of Arab governments for the US/Israel to attack Iran, because of course it accords nicely with our ‘Official Narrative’ of Iran ……. [Full Post]

Following the demise of the Soviet Union, the Anglo-American/NATO Imperial Project (AANIP) was on a high through the early 1990′s; but as the decade progressed, expectations of a much vaunted -  but elusive -  ‘peace dividend’ put increasing pressure on a fundamental need to crank up its global military capabilities if well-laid plans were to be realised. The communist threat was no more and as the decade progressed, the need for a new enemy became pressing; preferably a really evil scary omnipresent one that could keep the masses by turns frightened and outraged – and thus docile and demanding of protection. What better than an ……. [Full Post]

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a ‘SIGACT’ or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy ……. [Full Post]