Five arrested inn alleged new coup plot in The Philippines

Coup..coup.. trade mark of Philippines country?!"A human rights lawyer and four former military and police officers have been arrested in the Philippines over an alleged new plot to overthrow the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, officials said Thursday. Human...

Palestine No More? Here Comes Hamastan and Fatahland

"Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sound more smug than usual after Fatah's overthrow in Gaza. It appears that a drastic and deadly new strategy to isolate Palestinians and use other Arab countries as enforcers has been unveiled."

Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel

"Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel By DAVID HOROVITZ Print Subscribe E-mail Toolbar Talkbacks for this article: 256 Sanctions and diplomacy have failed and it may be too late for internal opposition to oust the Islamist regime, leaving only military intervention to...

Assessments Made in 2003 Foretold Situation in Iraq

"Two intelligence assessments from January 2003 predicted that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and subsequent U.S. occupation of Iraq could lead to internal violence and provide a boost to Islamic extremists and terrorists in the region, according to congressional sources and...

Arabic under fire by Brian Whitaker

"http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_whitaker/2007/05/arabic_under_fire.html Memri, the "research institute" which specialises in translating portions of the Arabic media into English, has issued a video clip from a children's programme on Hamas TV in which it claims...

Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness by Juan Cole

"The cronyism that may cost him his World Bank job is also what caused the Iraq debacle. By Juan Cole May. 14, 2007 | The executive board of the World Bank mulled a possible vote of no confidence in the leadership of its president, Paul Wolfowitz, this weekend. How did the...

Whatever happened to Ahmed Chalabi? (the man whose lies about WMDs took us to...

"Whatever his political future, Mr Chalabi is one of the great survivors of Iraqi politics. "Never ever write him off," Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, said to me last year. For a start he is still alive despite numerous assassination attempts. Aged 62 he has seen...

Superpower Undone By Small War

This is a must read:"Who Rules Iraq? There was a central lesson of four years of war which Bush and Tony Blair never seemed to take on board, though it was obvious to anybody living in Iraq: the occupation was unpopular and becoming more so by the day. Anti-American...

The Other Side Of Suez

"The Other Side Of Suez Documentary on the Suez Crisis of 1956. Shows how history often repeats itself: 'Sexed-up' intelligence, assassination attempts, manufactured war - all to protect Western 'interests' Fear of dwindling oil supplies, a strategy of regime change,...

Al Qaeda Strikes Back

"Al Qaeda is a more dangerous enemy today than it has ever been before. It has suffered some setbacks since September 11, 2001: losing its state within a state in Afghanistan, having several of its top operatives killed, failing in its attempts to overthrow the governments of...

George Tenet: Loser, Yes. Sycophant, Yes. Fall Guy? Yes

"The last thing I want to do is defend George Tenet. The slick, self-serving, and stunningly unrepentant Tenet should at best have been fired on September 12, 2001; at worst, he should be in jail. Instead, he has a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a best-selling book, and an...