“If there is to be peace and a better world, real democracy needs a wake up call among the people. An aroused public has to provide a choice that reflects majority values and interests or minorities will not only continue ruling Obama, but make things much worse than they are now.” Seven million jobs vanish from the economy in two …
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The Other Israel by Uri Avnery
“Israeli archeologists who care for the integrity of their profession (there still are some) protested this week that the digging is proceeding in a thoroughly unprofessional way: the work is done in an unscientific hurry, artifacts found are not examined properly and systematically, the sole aim is to uncover evidence as quickly as possible to support the Jewish claim to …
Read More »The Rise of Islamic Finance by Joseph Divanna
© Islamic Finance Today Described by The Economist as a “polymath”, and by his clients as “brilliant and fresh”, Joe DiVanna is the Managing Director of Maris Strategies Limited, an innovation think-tank providing research and advisory services to the financial services industry, global businesses and governments. He is the author of the annual Top 500 Islamic Banks supplement published in …
Read More »Open Letter to Saudis, by Tanya C. Hsu, Arab News
Having returned from the Kingdom, four weeks in an abaya and hijab, I am angry and frustrated. As an analyst specializing in Saudi Arabia I knew much of what to expect, thus covering and not being able to drive were nonissues. Landing in Jeddah I dropped ten degrees body temperature switching from linen to an abaya. Four weeks later, I …
Read More »War Is Peace, Ignorance Is Strength By John Pilger
Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hellfire missile, which sucks the air out of your lungs. According to the UN, 338,000 Afghan infants are dying under the Obama-led alliance, …
Read More »Latin America’s Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective,By James Petras
October 13, 2009 “ICH” — -The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs). Prominent writers, academics and regime spokespeople celebrated a …
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