Foreign Policy Commentary Updates

Here are some selected articles providing a foreign policy commentary update for late December, 2009 for those interested in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan politics A Year Later: Gaza and Israel Both Under Siege by Rami G. Khouri Israel militarily attacked and laid...

British involvement in Iraq war blamed on Blair’s ‘sycophancy'

"British soldiers were sent to their deaths in Iraq because of Tony Blair’s “sycophancy” towards Washington and the failure of the governing class to speak the truth, a former prosecutions chief says today."This is the kind of thing we need to be hearing now: the truth....

Repression of potential whistleblowers in the post-democratic age

Brussels Underground The governed have a right to know what their governments are capable of and serious abuses of power should not remain unreported or be condoned, as has been the case with the cover up in the trawler Gaul public inquiry. For, if ignored, such acts will...

The Obama Perception

The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. as the 44th President of the United States heralded in a new era in American Politics. This perceived charismatic young man who is constantly likened to John F Kennedy, promised new hope to a crushed nation, a new beginning, not...

The Green Scam

We are residents on a living planet, a planet that breathes, a planet that gets hot and cold, a planet that moves, a planet that reacts to the heat of the Sun and the gravitational pull of the Moon. It responds to forces from within and from without, it can be serene and...

Who’s Country Is It Anyway, Ours Or U.S. Think Tanks’?

" Beware: Pakistanis trained and groomed by U.S. think tanks are being inserted into Pakistan’s corridors of power, planted to teach us, the uncouth Pakistanis, what our national interest is and how to achieve it. While we have no problem with U.S. per se, we do have a big...