Why Obama is Black, not White

A interesting opinion piece by PHILIP OCHIENG in The East African Magazine giving an African perspective on the preoccupation of some with Barack Obama's race. Worth...

Perhaps 60 percent of today’s oil price is pure speculation

I think this article says it all. We are being reamed, and Enron does have the last laugh."Perhaps 60 percent of today’s oil price is pure speculationBy F. William EngdahlOnline Journal Contributing WriterMay 5, 2008, 00:19The price of crude oil today is not made according...

'Ambush' that left SAS trooper dead. - A look at the Dangers facing Special F...

"A British soldier killed in Iraq two weeks ago turned out to be an SAS man. What does it say about British special forces in Iraq, and the Anglo-American coalition's chances of defeating insurgency?The press release said simply: "It is with deep regret that the Ministry of...

North American Integration and the Militarization of the Arctic

"The Battle for the Arctic is part of a global military agenda of conquest and territorial control. It has been described as a New Cold War between Russia and America. Washington's objective is to secure territorial control, on behalf of the Anglo-American oil giants, over...

US government fans homeland terrorism fear

"In a series of closed-door sessions in Washington, a panel of high level government and military officials, security "experts" are constructing a homeland security plan that would include martial law and the suspension of civil liberties. See: Contigencies for nuclear...

The Baghdad gulag by Pepe Escobar

"DAMASCUS - There are three overlapping wars in Iraq: the Sunni Arab guerrilla struggle against the US; strands of Sunni Arab guerrillas against assorted Shi'ite militias/death squads; and al-Qaeda in Iraq against the puppet, US-backed Iraqi government in the Green Zone. Make...

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