Perspectives

The United States helped defeat #Nazism in World War 2. Today, Obama and Co. have ousted Ukraine’s democratically-elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, with the help of ultra-right, paramilitary, neo-Nazi gangs. These are America’s new allies in the Great Game, the grand plan to “pivot to Asia” by pushing further eastward, toppling peaceful governments, securing vital pipeline corridors, accessing scarce oil and natural gas reserves and dismantling the Russian Federation consistent with the strategy proposed by geopolitical mastermind and Al-Qaeda godfather, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

The government of Thailand is censoring anything that inspires people to change and bring about it. The writer reflects on how the press in Thailand is accustomed to self-censorship due to its relationship with the Shinawatra family and the government.

President Barack Obama nominated Janet Yellen as new Fed chief. The writer, a money and metals commentator, briefly gives what Yellen can expect to face -- a pithy, questioning reminder of whether U.S. central bankers provide us with any value at all.

If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida.

The President, the Head of the National Security Agency, the Department of Justice, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the Judiciary, are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance of US and other people secret from Americans.

Threatening to attack Syria, and moving ships into position to do it, are significant, and illegal, and immoral actions. The US President can claim not to have decided to push the button, but he also can’t pretend that all the preparations to do so just happen. It's pre-planned. Does President Barack Obama really have the say?

In the USA today, speaking out against the evils of Zionism is career suicide. The Israel lobby has destroyed the careers of several of the greatest US Senators and Representatives of the 20th century. Even former President Jimmy Carter has been viciously slandered and sued by pro-Israel fanatics. Helen Thomas, the dean of the Washington press corps, spent her career watching the Israel lobby destroy Palestine – and American democracy. Helen Thomas paid a heavy price for speaking the truth courageously, forcefully and brilliantly. Her immortal words sum up the reality of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict with trenchant eloquence: “Zionists, get the hell out of Palestine.”

Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni suggested that Palestinians stop using the word ‘Nakba’. Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, refers to the plight of Palestinian Arabs starting in 1948, displacement and murder of tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Nakba is marked by the start of Israel’s occupation in 1948 –also considered the moment of the Israeli state’s independence. How about the world delete the "Holocaust"?

Like many of Pope Francis’ more news-making statements, the real difference is less about the contents of his words, than in the direct, earthy style in which he delivers them, and the Church teachings he chooses to emphasize.

Correcting Zionist lies and propaganda: The peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan were not conditional on acceptance of the definition 'Jewish state' and there has never in history been the demand that an outside party sign on to the definition of the character of the other party.

Had Edward Snowden exposed the dirt of the Taliban, he would have been standing behind the lectern in New York at the UN hall on Friday, July 12. Whoever drafted Malala’s speech was taking no chances because they wanted a cinematic moment from a “mind-controlled victim” of the elite according to an Indian writer.

Unprecedented in the history of international relations, the governments of four European countries - France, Spain, Italy and Portugal - have closed off their airspace this week to the Bolivian president’s airplane. Is this a case of strict compliance with international laws or further proof of the servility of European ’powers’ towards Washington? To better answer this simple question, French pundit Salim Lamrani sets out a list of 25 facts.