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Prof. Jonathan Turley: 10 Reasons the U.S. is no Longer the Land of the Free Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials …

Prof. Francis A Boyle: The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam in General Kuala Lumpur – Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America in seventeen eighty-nine. The fledgling United States opened the nineteenth century by …

2012 Opens with Mounting War Threat in Persian Gulf Wednesday, 04 January 2012 By Peter Symonds (source: The Wisdom Fund) The year begins with the looming threat of a new American war, this time against Iran. In the latest sharp exchange of words, the US yesterday brushed aside an Iranian …

The Media Consensus on Israel is Collapsing Friday, 06 January 2012 Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common New critics of Israel: Roger Cohen, left, of New York Times; Paul Pillar of the CIA By John Michael Smith (source: www.salon.com) With Hamas and Fatah meeting this week in …

Mark Steel: Wife-beating? That’s fine – unless you’re a Muslim The Sun newspaper has come over a bit modest. Following a Channel 4 documentary about media reporting of Muslims, the paper accepts some of its stories were “distorted”. But they’re not doing themselves justice. They weren’t distorted – they were …

Professor Akbar Ahmed: Imran faces his greatest test in General Washington, DC – There is a direct correlation between the depths of the gloom in Pakistan and the high expectations of salvation from Imran Khan. It is clear that the greater the despair in the country, the more fervent the …

Amira Hass:On anniversary of Gaza war, we will remember IDF soldiers who destroyed Palestinian families While Yoav Galant’s name is most prominently mentioned in the context of the third anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, we must recall the other, nameless soldiers, guided by the spirit of the army’s top brass. …

JOINT PRESS RELEASE: Monday, 19 December 2011 Concern over Dis-Chem CEO’s Response to Customer Monday, 19 December 2011 The Media Review Network (MRN) and the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) find it deplorable and completely unacceptable that Dis-Chem’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ivan Saltzman, seeks to justify its business ties with …

WASHINGTON — Despite official assertions of progress in Afghanistan, American battle casualties remain stubbornly high, and the severity of the physical and psychological wounds suffered by young Americans is actually increasing. So far this year, more than 5,000 American troops have been wounded — about one third of all those …

WHY the West is declining – And will continue to decline… by Prof. R Vaidyanathan Ten years ago, America had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. Now it has no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash. Or so the joke goes. Only, it’s no joke. The line is pretty close …