President Obama is again turning his attention to the elusive economic recovery. His “pivot” will be for naught, however, as long as he continues to ignore two important points: first, government is a major squanderer of scarce resources, and second, its regulations are impediments to saving and investment.

by Dan Lieberman

Iran has its political limitations, human rights violations, governance failures and domestic problems - all indefensible. Not a rational for excuse, but qualify each of the contemporary rights violations with case stories and quantify them with statistics, and Iran, in year 2013, is much less repressive compared to other nations whom the United States...

Livni Squeals, Kerry Deals and the EU Picks Up the Tab

It was reportedly a hectic and intense past weekend in Washington and London according to an emailed report from a Capitol Hill source, as the Obama and Cameron administrations tracked down and button-holed the leaders of the 28 European Union delegations gathering in Brussels to finally vote on whether Hezbollah’s...

The June 30th Egyptian revolution had been over-analyzed, scrutinized, criticized, mislabeled, and distorted by many writers, analysts, politicians, and governments. This was a national Intifada (uprising) through which Egyptians had expressed their will in purely democratic means. Despite the military interference, in response to popular calls, to preserve peace and to prevent...

Recalling the Orientalist overview

Bernard Lewis, the doyen of modernising Orientalists, asked some decades ago "What went wrong?" in the evolution of the countries in the Arab world. His response to his own question was that Arabs were burdened with a cultural inability to overcome traditions bestowed by Islam that prevented neoliberal economics and Western technologies...

by Dr. Daud Abdullah

On July 6, a five-minute video [re-posting of the original] entitled "Muslim Brotherhood & Gama'a Islamiya throw kids off buildings in Sidi Gaber" was posted on the internet. Within hours it went viral, evoking a torrent of hysterical commentary from every quarter. Reactions were not limited...

Once again a pig-shaped balloon with Star of David alongside other ‘horrid’ symbols was integrated into Roger Water’s concert.

Some Jews are very upset.

by Sherine Tadros

For the second time in a month, 90 million people in Egypt are holding their breaths.

Within a few days, the country could enter into a terrifying new stage.

The U.S. government’s belligerence toward Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Ecuador for sympathizing with Edward Snowden’s request for asylum brings to mind the U.S. national-security state’s Cold War mindset toward communism, a mindset characterized by deception, delusion, and paranoia, a mindset that did immeasurable harm to the American people as well as people in Latin...

by Pepe Escobar

Amidst the incessant rumble in the (Washington) jungle about a possible Obama administration military adventure in Syria, new information has come to light. And what a piece of Pipelineistan information that is.

by Gabriel Elizondo

It ended in chaos and confusion.

But last Wednesday night started with more than 1,000 protesters gathered in front of the home of Governor Sergio Cabral in the high-end Leblon neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. The vast majority of those protesting were peaceful, calling for the impeachment of the politician for, among other things, what they...

So-called peace talks are fake. They're a sham. They've always been this way. Decades of talks were stillborn from inception. This time's no different.

Chances for a just peace are ZERO. Palestinians have no say. Believing otherwise defies reality.