Judging by the numbers of casualties on both sides in this almost one-month old war one would be led to the conclusion that Israel has resorted to disproportionate means in fighting a far less- capable enemy. That is as far … Read the rest
Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
What happened in Argentina
By Jérome Duval, Fatima Fafatale.
The vulture fund NML Capital that, together with others, has Argentina on the edge of suspending payments, is already devouring the rotting flesh of the Spanish market. Elliott Management, the opportunistic fund of the serial … Read the rest
HRW, apologists for murder
By Norman Finkelstein.
It takes considerable talent to describe Hamas’s firing of primitive “rockets” that to date have indirectly killed one person (she died of a heart attack) as a “war crime,” while describing Israel’s killing to date of 120 … Read the rest
A crying shame that Colonel De Kock has not been pardoned
The Conflict of the Past: A Factual Review
by Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner of South Africa
More than two decades after political negotiations were started and the ANC, as well as other revolutionary organisations, ceased the armed … Read the rest
Gaza’s torment, Israel’s crimes
By Noam Chomsky
At 3am Gaza time, July 9, in the midst of Israel’s latest exercise in savagery, I received a phone call from a young Palestinian journalist in Gaza. In the background, I could hear his infant child wailing, … Read the rest
Discrediting SA only benefits US
The downgrading of South Africa by rating agencies Standard & Poor’s and Fitch is a bitter pill to swallow, which has possibly severe consequences for our country.
Admittedly, there are significant negatives retarding the country’s growth potential. The government, organised … Read the rest
The truth on interracial rape in the United States
By Lawrence Auster
Like Ahab’s search for the Great White Whale, liberals’ search for the Great White Defendant is relentless and never-ending. When, in 1988, Tawana Brawley’s and Al Sharpton’s then year-old spectacular charge that several white men including prosecutor … Read the rest
The true aims of the Terror War
By Chris Floyd.
The moral insanity of the Terror War continues to spawn more violence, more extremism, more repression, more injustice, and the total subversion of the “Western values,” all of which it is ostensibly designed to defend.
A new … Read the rest
A surge that threatens to transform America
Illegals greeting US law enforcers
There’s a surge on the American southern border. This is a surge far different from George W. Bush’s dispatch of armed might to win the day in Iraq. This is a mass movement of immigrants … Read the rest
Israel no ‘oasis of human rights and equality’
Recent protest in Johannesburg against ‘Apartheid-Israel’ with photo of Mandela and Arafat
by Salomé Oosthuizen, Helderkruin, Johannesburg
The letter below was sent to Business Day newspaper in response to a letter to the same newspaper written by a Ms. Shapiro of Glenhazel, … Read the rest
BNP Paribas fine: are $10 billion too much?
Forget the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings and the elaborate preparations to celebrate later this week the liberation of France by its allies. Forget “Lafayette, nous sommes ici”, which General John Pershing is supposed to have said when the … Read the rest
Russia needs Marine Le Pen
A hundred years ago, France was one of major world powers. Today, this is a country, to which one can dictate their conditions, on how, for instance, to build relations with Russia. The French can not agree with it – … Read the rest
Towards the End of U.S. Propaganda
Stengel and his black prop
By Thierry Meyssan.
The Anglo-Saxon Empire is based on a century of propaganda. It managed to convince us that the United States is “the land of the free” and that it engaged in wars to … Read the rest
How empires collapse
By Charles Hugh Smith.
This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time.
Before an empire collapses, it first erodes from within. The collapse may appear sudden, but the processes of internal rot hollowed out the resilience, resolve, … Read the rest