Analysis

By MWC News

by Adam Keller

One shouldn’t underestimate the Israeli government’s public relations headache caused by one young Palestinian who is tightly incarcerated behind bars and who confronts the entire might of the state, its government and army and security services, his only weapon being – an empty stomach.

Read more: With an empty stomach

By MWC News

by Ehsan Azari Stanizai

As the new season of the world’s longest-running war in Afghanistan is warming up, the Afghan civilians and children are falling prey as easy victims. Early this month, the NATO air strike has killed eleven children, aged between two months and seven years in the Shigal district of Kunar province bordering Pakistan.

Read more: Cry, beloved Afghanistan for your unborn children!

By Stephen Lendman

Post-Boston bombings, expect Obama and Congress to take full advantage. Perhaps more war is planned. Big lies launch them. Fear-mongering enlists public support. Anything ahead is possible.

Iran's repeatedly targeted. New baseless accusations followed earlier ones.

Read more: War on Terror 2.0

By Gideon Polya

Lest we forget

On ANZAC Day, Australia’s most sacred day, the nation solemnly pauses to remember those 100,000 Australian heroes who have died in wars. The phrase inextricably linked to ANZAC Day is “Lest we forget”. However the Mainstream media, politicians and academics of Australia have overwhelmingly ignored – “forgotten”-  the horrendous number of  civilians who died in wars in which Australia has been involved  and the moral courage of a small number of pacifists who refused to be party to the evil of war. An extraordinary omission from ANZAC Day remembrance is the Armenian Genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Turkish nationalists in WW1 and which was precipitated by the 1915 invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli by Allied forces, including the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs), a failed invasion by the ANZAC forces from which ANZAC Day takes its name.

Read more: ANZAC & Armenian Genocide Day

By Ben Tanosborn

A friend who teaches history in one of the area’s community colleges cynically told me a dozen years ago, shortly after the September 11 attack, that the upcoming writing of American history would be done not by historians, but by economists. He contended that American military spending had brought the Soviet empire to its knees a generation before, now (in 2001) Osama bin Laden was lighting what he called the “slow wick-fuse” that would have the US implode as the ruling empire within a couple of decades.

Read more: America, Long on Indifference, Short on Indignation