It is a battle for God and the battleground is Pakistan. By Anwaar Hussain The killing frenzy in Pakistan has reached a feverish pitch. In a rapidly darkening scarlet hue, the extremists are marching on suicide-bombing, beheading and maiming innocent citizens on their bloody path to their murky goal. The naive victims, out of their [...]

From Smoke and Mirrors TS Admin : What a poignant piece of writing. TS said the same in ‘Happy New Year and Row on you Galley Slaves’ but not many paid attention at the time. To say that I was surprised would be an understatement; when I heard Ron Paul was scaling back his campaign [...]

By *Richard Phillips   Anti-war activists have not always embraced the rhetoric of anti-imperialism. Richard Phillips examines the many meanings of that slippery term and asks whether it is still relevant in describing today’s unequal and often violent world. In summer 2003, Tariq Ali, Tony Benn and other leading figures in Stop the War Coalition [...]

By Stephen Lendman   For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it’s the first casualty, or as esteemed journalist John Pilger noted: “Journalism (not truth) is the first casualty (of war). Not only that: it(‘s)….a weapon of war (by its) virulent censorship….by omission (and its) power….can mean….life and death [...]

By Simon Heffer America has much to be defensive about these days. It is unpopular in the world, and it knows it. Its President – who goes unmentioned in the campaign for the White House, as if he had never existed – is a man many here find hard to respect, not least because they [...]

By Ted Lang Diversity has given way to only two distinct opposites: respect for the individual versus respect for the state. Our nation was created to protect the sanctity of the individual; for freedom, namely the individual’s inherent right to life liberty and property, can only be enjoyed by the individual. In spite of family, [...]

 by Patrick Seale TS Admin : An absolute must-read with this article Bring out the Nails by Anwaar Hussain NATO — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — is the world’s most powerful military alliance. It has two million men under its command, a thousand helicopters and countless other military resources. Yet it is facing failure, [...]