Politics

By MWC News

by Jacob G. Hornberger

With Saudi Arabia’s military intervention into Bahrain, the dark side of U.S. foreign policy becomes even more exposed. The purpose of the Saudi intervention is to prop up the brutal dictatorship in Bahrain, one of the many dictatorships that the U.S. government has long supported as part of its imperial foreign policy.

Read more: Time to Stop Deferring to Federal Authority

By MWC News

By Khalid Amayreh

There is no doubt that killing children, any children, is wrong. The fact that their parents' or even country's deeds may be evil and criminal shouldn't make much of a difference.

However, a heavily criminal context  would probably give the some killers the right to argue "where were you when my kids were slaughtered like sheep."

Read more: Killing children is wrong, but Israel has killed thousands of children

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by Jason C. Ditz

A couple of weeks ago, former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni penned an op-ed piece in the Washington Post calling for the international community to impose a "universal code" on all democracies across the planet, with a particular eye towards the new ones springing forth from the popular uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Read more: Unravelling Livni's universal code

By Timothy V. Gatto

Recently I heard President Obama say that Gadhafi of Libya “Is on the wrong side of history”. The truth is that Obama is on the wrong side of history. Gunboat diplomacy is a thing of the past. The world has become much more complicated than it once was. A slight miscalculation, a slight error in foreign policy could bring blowback that nobody could foresee and nobody will know how to deal with. This is the case in Libya today.  I’ll get to that later, but for now I’d like to talk about two other nations that the U.S. has set up as having “evil” regimes that prey on their own people.

Read more: A Good Look at the Countries America Loves to Hate

By Stephen Lendman

Discount all official government statements and major media reports repeating them instead of demanding expert, unbiased views.
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Officially, Japan's nuclear emergency is under control and contained. In fact, lies substitute for truths, denial for reality, and managed news for honest reporting.

Read more: Coverup and Denial in Japan