INTERNATIONAL

  Analysis by Alan Lawson Our bulletin from a few days ago "Wikileaks: Brought to you by the CIA" from a video made in July struck a nerve.  Here's some follow up.  This video shows how Wikileaks and the way that the Corporate-owned, CIA-controlled media is handling the Wikileaks circus is a dream come true for Israel and its goal …

  Our real-life Neo did it again! In this new installment of Wiki-Matrix, the intrepid Julian Assange assaults the Empire while being pursued by ravenous Pentagon generals, shadowy CIA agents and overheated Swedish feminists. Excuse me if I’m sounding like a teenager’s comic book, but this story has so many twists and plots it makes my head swim. I haven’t been …

'Cablegate' has provided the Arab public with an insightful peek into the inner circles of their respective states.        Western diplomats may or may not always be lying for their own country. But could Western diplomacy, in the case of the Middle East, serve to make non-Western rulers lie to their own countries? The Wikileaks revelatory cables shed some light on …

Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and wanted 'Christian roots' enshrined in EU constitution By Heather Brooke and Andrew Brown A WikiLeaks cable reports that Pope Benedict XVI, seen here being received by Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara in 2006, 'might prefer to see Turkey develop a special relationship short of EU membership'. Photograph: Dylan …

Morally bankrupt U.S. media buries facts that counter the case for war. By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI   Supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejoiced over the cable in which a British official opined that he had actually won the rigged June 2009 presidential election. They could not see the irony in taking the opinion of an official of a foreign government that their president routinely …

DOES SHARIA ACCOMMODATES THIS MODERN DAY BLASPHEMY LAWS. THERE WERE AND ARE VERY MANY ILLITERATE, EDUCATED AND HIGHLY EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SAID AND ARE SAYING HIGHLY DEFAMATORY AND INFLAMMATORY THINGS ABOUT ALLAH AND HIS PROPHET. DANTE IN HIS SO CALLED CLASSICAL WORK " INFERNO" CONSIGNED OUR BELOVED PROPHET TO HELL IN AGONIZING WORDS. MODERN DAY TELEVANGELISTS, WRITERS …