BOOK REVIEW: Letters from Palestine, By Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah (Jim Miles)

Letters from Palestine - Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. July 6, 2010 (Pale ...

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Righting a Perpetual Wrong (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 24, 2010 -- Finally, a parliamentary debate in Lebanon over the human rights of Palestinian refugees. What is unfortunate though, is that granting basic civil ri ...

BOOK REVIEW: Quicksand - America's Pursuit Of Power In The Middle East. By Geoffrey Wawro (Jim Miles)

Quicksand -- America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East. Geoffrey Wawro. Penguin Press, New York, 2010. June 16, 2010 -- (Palestine Chronicle) -- From first impression to last impression this book ...

Middle East is Changing, and Ankara Knows It (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 16, 2010 -- "Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals." The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister Re ...

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)

June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...

After Haiti: A Conversation with John Perkins | Elizabeth Ferrari

Elizabeth Ferrari -- World News Trust Mar. 26, 2010 When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, the first person I wanted to hear from was John Perkins. Several years before Naomi Klein coined the ...

Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke 'Complicit' in Financial Crisis and Should Go | Amy Goodman

Dec. 4, 2009 (Democracy Now) -- In an extended interview, we speak with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernan ...

What is the CIA Still Hiding about Interrogations? (Nat Hentoff)

Sept. 4, 2009 (Billings Gazette) -- A fierce debate will long continue to swirl around former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's long-delayed 2004 report (sprung by an American Civil Liberties Un ...

Interview: Journalist Files Suit Alleging H1N1 'Swine Flu' A Hoax To Sell Vaccines (Kathlyn Stone)

Credit: Public domain (CC0) Interview with Jane Burgermeister, a science journalist who has filed criminal charges against the World Health Organization, U.S. officials and business executives. She a ...

Paulson's Swindle Revealed | William Greider

Oct. 30, 2008 (The Nation) -- The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Ha ...

Crashed Jet Carrying Cocaine Linked to CIA (Jeremy R. Hammond)

A number of jets connected to drug-trafficking, including a Gulfstream II carrying more than three tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico last year, have been linked to the C ...