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Wikileaks and the new global order: America’s wake-up call

Jonathan Cook argues that the disclosure by Wikileaks of secret US diplomatic cables highlight “Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role” but that “the world’s finite resources

Wikileaks disclosures – a welcome “attack on the international community”

Gilad Atzmon argues that the disclosure by the whistleblower website Wikileaks of 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables is “a long overdue, necessary attack on an ‘international community’ of warmongers and

Mubarak Denies Tipping Bush on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction

Egypt rebuffed recent allegations by former US President George Bush who maintained that the Egyptian president had encouraged him to invade Iraq in 2003 on the grounds that it possessed

Yemen: Al Qaeda Presence Not Credible

The people of Yemen simply don't believe in Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and for good reason.

New History or a New Mirage

Echoing Edward Said, the legendary Palestinian scholar, Antoine Raffoul addresses the ambiguities of Israel’s "new historians" who, with the clear exception of Ilan Pappe, condemn the occupation but fail to

Bush blames Mubarak for war decision

Former US President Bush's book Decision Points, which reveals and highlights mistakes made by him during the Iraq war campaign alleges that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had informed Bush that

US Faces Accusations of Human Rights Abuses

In a unique and unprecedented confrontation the United States faced a barrage of condemnations and criticism from the United Nations Human rights Council over Guantanamo and torture allegations.

Julie “Sabbath Goy” Burchill: Zionist serpent in our midst

Gilad Atzmon views the hypocrisy and state of mind behind a recent venomous attack by Zionist pro-war columnist Julie Burchill on peace and human rights activist Lauren Booth for converting

Spotlight on the Americas

Lawrence Davidson considers why so many US officials, some ostensibly intelligent, end up blatantly lying or blindly following murderous orders without question, and why the general public seems to accept

Bring me the head of Silvino Herrera

Against the background of the leaking of the USA’s secret Iraq war crimes files by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Daniel Patrick Welch peers beneath the West's self-proclaimed cultural and moral