Tony Blair Praises President Mubarak, Who Tortured Citizens VIDEO

"Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair explained on CNN that Egyptian President Mubarak was “immensely courageous and a force for good,” disregarding Mubarak’s brutal police force that has tortured Egyptian citizens and Mubarak’s cooperation with CIA “black...

GULF OIL SPILL: A Matter Of National Security? by Dr.Tom Termotto

Why does the US Federal Government continue to allow British Petroleum (BP), a serial criminal among oil companies, to control the biggest crime scene in American history?!Why hasn’t the Barack Obama Administration (BOA) simply taken complete control of the situation, moved...

Karl Rove/Robert Amsterdam: can PR experts really save the day?

Reputation management has always been a problem for political leaders. From kings to democratic presidents, politicians have tried to control their image in order to gain legitimacy. Over the past ten years, a new kind of political expert has appeared: spin doctors. They...

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...

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...