Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott
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By Ramzy Baroud*
It is an event “of cosmic proportions”, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call ...
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The Pretext Adopted To Fight “Terrorism”
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French Avidity Unmasks Its Presence in Mali
Afransiant - the major powers interests penetrated the tribal conflicts in Mali, it is unhidden that one of the French, American and Canadian companies played a key role in agitating and in fueling ...
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Boston, Brazil and Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars
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By Ramzy Baroud*
During his talk sponsored by the New American Foundation in March 2008, author ParagKhanna addressed the rising challenges facing the US's global hegemony. According to Khanna, China and the European Union are the new contenders ...
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Filling the Empty Battlefield
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By Tom Engelhardt*
Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 -- and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson ...
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The Great Afghan Corruption Scam
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By Dilip Hiro*
afrasianet-Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible ...
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American Anniversaries from Hell
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By Tom Engelhardt*
It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Nonetheless, two anniversaries of American disasters and crimes abroad -- the “mission accomplished” ...
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Who Did You Rape in the War, Daddy?
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By Nick Turse*
On August 31, 1969, a rape was committed in Vietnam. Maybe numerous rapes were committed there that day, but this was a rare one involving American GIs that actually made its way into the military justice system.
And that ...
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Mission Unaccomplished
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I was there. And “there” was nowhere. And nowhere was the place to be if you wanted to see the signs of end times for the American Empire up close. It was the place to be if you wanted to see the madness -- and oh yes, it was madness -- not filtered ...
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Settlements are illegal, settlers must leave
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R ashid Shain
Palestinians have waited for more than six decades following their Nakba, or catastrophe, in 1948, and more than four decades of occupation until the world has finally admitted that colonies or "settlements" in the Occupied Palestinian ...
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Counting Down to 2014 in Afghanistan
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By Ann Jones*
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Compromise, conflict, or collapse: ask an Afghan what to expect in 2014 and you’re likely to get a scenario that falls under one of those three headings. 2014, of course, is the year of the double whammy in ...
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Arab Spring opens doors for Qaeda comeback
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The flow of foreign fighters into Syria, flood of arms across North Africa, war in Mali and terror attacks highlight the jihadists' return in a region rocked by the Arab Spring, diplomats and analysts say.
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