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Egypt’s 2010 Elections – Fraud, Oppression and Hope for Change

Eygpt’s 2010 parliamentary elections will go down in history as a blatant fraud and crime against democracy and the people it represents.

Shameful traits of the USA and Israel

Paul J. Balles views two shameful traits shared by the US and Israel and represented in the views of Joseph A. Klein: abhorring criticism and diverting attention from their own

Your reality or mine? Private reality, the media and the manipulation of information

Lawrence Davidson considers the problems of private realities – the fact that ”there are people who do occasionally attain power whose private realities are fantasy driven” and the fact that

Farewell to Afghanistan

Sama Adnan considers the crippling impact of the US intervention in Afghanistan on the American economy and society, highlighting among other things that while President Obama has cut federal salaries

WikiLeaks Reveals Nothing Unforeseen in Egypt’s Tough Grip

Despite there being nothing unforeseen in the WikiLeaks revelations or in the reports about the Middle Eastern regimes' conduct in their election campaigns; they do however highlight the struggle between

The Obama administration’s quiet approach to Arab reform

While the last two years have witnessed a few modest advances in political reform in Arab countries--importantly, women appear to be participating politically in larger numbers--the general trend has been

Obama to Netanyahu: “You win”

Alan Hart argues that US President Barack Obama’s admission that he has given up trying to persuade Israel to freeze illegal settlement building proves that the makers of the USA’s

Is Julian Assange Europe’s Nelson Mandela?

Christopher King urges everyone who cares about justice and the truth to stand by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with donations to help him defend himself against politically-motivated, vexatious prosecution by

The Winds of Change as the Muslim Brotherhood and El-Baradei Close Ranks

The Egyptian regime can not just sneak away from the polls; their fraud is not going unnoticed and is not without consequences.

Obama’s Israel policy: speak softly and carry a very big carrot

Maidhc ? Cathail views US President Barack Obama’s policy of solid support for Israel and the lynchpins of that policy, from Israel’s fifth columnists in Congress to key Obama advisers