By Press Trust of India
China has “warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China”, a media report claimed today. Continued
By Stephen M. Walt
Ever since Rome, imperial powers have discovered that it is hard to retain republican freedoms and limited government while conquering or dominating others, and the United States is no exception. Continue
Where Whistleblowing Has Become Espionage:
By Democracy Now!
National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake faces 35 years in prison on espionage charges for alleged unauthorized “willful retention” of five classified documents. Continue
By James Petras
While the Pentagon arms the Mexican government and the US Drug Enforcement Agency enforces the “military solution”, the biggest US banks receive, launder and transfer hundreds of billions of dollars to the drug lords’ accounts, who then buy modern arms, pay private armies of assassins and corrupt untold numbers of political and law enforcement officials on both sides of the border. Continue
Are you ready for the red pill?
By Richard K. Moore
The defining dramatic moment in the film The Matrix occurs just after Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill promises "the truth, nothing more." Neo takes the red pill and awakes to reality--something utterly different from anything Neo, or the audience, could have expected. Continue
By Mike Whitney
He could be guilty. But he deserves a fair trial, and someone's making damn sure he doesn't get one. Continue
“A Moment of Opportunity”
By President Barack Obama
Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery. Continue
Veteran U.S. Diplomat: We Are Becoming the USSR: Don't expect to hear a topic like this discussed on your favorite cable news channel -- or politicians seeking the Presidency, for that matter -- any time soon.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: hotel waited an hour to report alleged attack: New York investigators are questioning why the Sofitel hotel in New York waited an hour to call police after Dominique Strauss-Kahn left the hotel on Saturday following an alleged sexual assault of a chambermaid.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn waives his extradition rights: Dominique Strauss-Kahn has waived his extradition rights and pledged to remain under 24-hour surveillance in a new attempt to be released from prison on bail.
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