Erasing the Nakba
By: Neve Gordon Israel’s tireless efforts to conceal the historical events leading to its creation. Be’er-Sheva, Israel – I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was [...]
Category Archives: Conflicts
Conflicts
Syria and Iran in Focus
By: Stephen Lendman America’s longstanding agenda targets both countries. Israel wants regional rivals removed. Washington wants independent regimes replaced by pro-Western puppet ones. All options are considered, including war. For [...]
Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
By: Bill Quigley, Ph.D US civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands of people have been assassinated. Hundreds [...]
Brewing Up a Conflict With China
By: Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has [...]
Afghanistan — Permanent Occupation Planned
By: Stephen Lendman Replicating post-WW II occupations is planned. Sixty-seven years after war’s end, US troops still occupy Germany, Japan and Korea. They’re part of America’s growing empire of bases. [...]
NGOs Promote Wars for Profit
By: Stephen Lendman Like better known war profiteers, NGOs also cash in. A Centre for the Study of Interventionism (CSI) report discussed it. CSI challenges interventionist notions. Exponents believe “military violence” should [...]
Grand Prix Disgrace
On Sunday, April 22, Bahrain’s Grand Prix went on as scheduled. This year’s grand prize is disgrace, not glory. Formula 1′s governing board shamed itself by not pulling out. So did participating drivers. Agreeing to race in a virtual war zone shows nothing matters but winning and money – lots of it. Going along turns a blind eye to state terror.
Protesting for Justice in Bahrain
By: Stephen Lendman Long-suffering Bahrainis want democratic change. In response, Al Khalifa security forces attack them. Washington turns a blind eye. So did Formula One’s governing body. On April 22, [...]
Grand Prix Hypocrisy in Bahrain
Al-Khalifa despots rule Bahrain repressively. Bahrainis want democratic change. In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. In mid-February last year, major ones erupted. They continue daily nonviolently. Courageous Bahrainis brave vicious security force attacks. Saudi troops are involved. In March 2011, they entered Bahrain guns blazing. They remain. They’re terrorizing Bahraini men, women, children, doctors, other medical professionals, journalists, human rights activists, and foreign observers. So do state police. They’re beating them, arresting them, torturing them, imprisoning them, and killing them. No matter. Let the race begin.
Intolerance in The Sunshine State — An Analysis
In the early 1500s the Spanish Conquistadors came to the shores of what is now known as Florida (Flowery Land in Spanish). At that time the area was populated by groups of Paleo-Indians whose lives were about to change drastically for the worse. The Conquistadores were out for gold and other riches to which purpose the natives were often enslaved. Along with them came Spanish priests whose goal was strictly ideological: the conversion of the natives to Catholicism. About this the natives would also have no choice. From that time onward the sunny and flowery land of Florida proved a place both of wealth and ideological intolerance.
