Bruce Bisset | Hawkes Bay Today | 20 Dec 2014 [AM editor’s note: the probably fake and certainly staged beheadings by ISIS serves the Western elite’s imperial agenda in much the same way that the CIA used torture to extract false intelligence in an attempt to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11 and justify in the…
By Sam Muhho | Global Research | November 24, 2014 Cooperation is an essential part of maintaining a healthy and progressive international order that serves the interests of multipolarity and the people as opposed to the powers of the financial elite and imperialism. Cooperation is needed in a world increasingly affected by the machinations and whims of a…
By Eric Margolis | ICH | 23 Nov 2014 Sir John Baggot Glubb, better known as Glubb Pasha, was one of the modern Mideast’s most colorful and romantic figures. He and ‘Chinese’ Gordon of Khartoum were the last of the great British imperial officers. Seconded by Britain to its protectorate, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,…
By Prof. James Petras | Global Research | November 16, 2014 On November 9, 2014, Germany and its Western Allies, celebrated the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ and the subsequent‘re-unification’of the ‘two Germanys’. Prime Minister Merkel described the ‘historic event’ as a “victory of freedom for all peoples in Europe and across the world.” The entire Western…
No Glory in War | 11 April 2014 Historian Neil Faulkner on the First World War and how political leaders like David Cameron and Michael Gove are trying to rehabillitate as a “just and noble” cause, with the intention of justifying today’s wars. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th51UMjbyoU?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] For more information about the No Glory in War campaign,…
By Zivadin Jovanović | Global Research | October 21, 2014 History is a teacher of life, says the old proverb. Hence, it should be regarded as a part of life and the future, not only a part of the past. We recall that the drive for redrawing the borders was one of the key objectives of…