by Ayaz Amir* *Mr. Ayaz Amir is a prominent Pakistani columnist. THE war the Pakistan army is being made to fight in the two Waziristans is not our war. It is a war calibrated to an American agenda, Pakistan being asked to pull the chestnuts out of a fire the Americans have started. Yet so [...]

by Freeman Dyson* 1. The Need for Heretics In the modern world, science and society often interact in a perverse way. We live in a technological society, and technology causes political problems. The politicians and the public expect science to provide answers to the problems. Scientific experts are paid and encouraged to provide answers. The [...]

On the stump, Rudy can’t help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record by Wayne Barrett with special research assistance by Alexandra Kahan Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still walking through the canyons of lower Manhattan, covered in soot, pointing north, and leading the nation out of danger’s way. The Republican [...]

Ten advances towards the end of freedom and privacy in the United States. by Paul Joseph Watson The top ten advances towards tyranny in the United States during the tenure of the Bush administration, from the Patriot Act to the latest expansion of the illegal eavesdropping surveillance program. 1) The USA Patriot Act The party [...]

by Chris Hedges The war in Iraq is about to get worse-much worse.  The Democrats’ decision to let the war run its course, while they frantically wash their hands of responsibility, means that it will sputter and stagger forward until the mission collapses.  This will be sudden.  The security of the Green Zone, our imperial [...]

Dutch TV – English subtitles. In 1966 and 1967 Jan Muhren was stationed as UN observer at the Israeli border, were he witnessed in person how Israel was continuously provoking its Arab neighbors. He never reconciled himself in the way in which the six-day war ended up in our history books. “The image we had [...]

by Walter C. Uhler* As virtually every literate citizen on our planet knows, since the nineteenth century anti-Semites have been extolling the crackpot and wicked Protocols of the Elders of Zion in order to prove a conspiracy by Jews to rule the world. Even today, alas, the Protocols remain popular and believable throughout the world, [...]