Watch the InterviewIsrael’s Security ConcernsThe Myth of the UN Creation of IsraelThe Zionists’ Settler-Colonial ProjectIsrael’s 2005 Withdrawal from GazaThe Truth about the So-Called ‘Peace Process’Ancient Historical Connections to PalestineThe Correct Application of...
FPJ — When the Obama administration announced on July 25 that it was free to violate U.S. law by continuing to finance the Egyptian military to the tune of $1.5 billion annually, even though it was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected...
Akbar Ganji begins a piece in Foreign Affairs titled “Meet Ahmadinejad’s Chosen Successor” by writing: On June 14, Iran will hold a presidential election. If the acrimony and fraud of the 2009 election was not enough to cast a pall over this vote, then the ongoing...
FPJ — The U.S. media is, unsurprisingly, making their best effort to paint Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in a negative light, the general accusation being that he is attempting to usurp power and crack down on dissent and criticism of his rule....
I subscribe to email updates from Foreign Policy, and when I saw the title “Israel’s Resilient Democracy”, I mentally groaned and thought, “This must be written by somebody like Michael B. Oren.” So I scrolled down to read the byline. Guess who? None other. So Oren...
Kerry Bolton, Revolution From Above: Manufacturing ‘Dissent’ in the New World Order (United Kingdom: Arktos Media Ltd., 2011). Michael Parenti joked in a talk I once watched online about the skeptic who questions whether the “conspiracy theorist” really believes a...
Two examples of U.S. support for democracy abroad: U.S. policy on Iran (outlined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton), where incumbent candidate President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad apparently legitimately won the election: So, we were doing a lot to really empower the...
Wikileaks has obtained a Department of State document laying out the terms of a grant in part for the purpose of helping to import new media technology into Iran for the creation of a website to “promote democracy”. According to Wikileaks: This file...
I was interviewed by Dori Smith of Talk Nation Radio about the topic of Iran and the recent unrest, and the possibility of U.S. interference in Iran’s domestic affairs during the recent presidential election and the unrest and violence that followed. An...
The NEDThe Democracy FundThe ABF The NED The National Endowment for Democracy Act (U.S.C. Title 22, Chapter 54, Subchapter II) stipulates that the U.S. Information Agency “shall make an annual grant to the Endowment to enable the Endowment to carry out its...
The Iran Freedom Support Act became Public Law 109-293 on September 30, 2006 essentially committed the U.S. to a policy of regime change in Iran. It’s declared purpose is “To hold the current regime in Iran accountable for its threatening behavior and to...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial under the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the ruling military junta in Burma that prevented her from taking her rightful position as Prime Minister after she was democratically elected in 1990. Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace...
With all the talk today about “spreading democracy”, two major questions should immediately come to mind. The first is whether or not there is any truth at all to the declarations of noble intent from the proponents of empire, a subject which has received great...