By Maksim Shevchenko: Why has the almost-forgotten Osama bin Laden, the main reason the US has been campaigning in Iraq and Afghanistan for the past 10 years, been killed rather than seized? Why has this…
Category: Global Issues
Osama Bin Laden: unasked and unanswered questions about the claims of his killing by the US military
By Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.: This piece is being written on May 3, 2011, on the basis of information that has been made public thus far. A realistic scenario of a dialogue between President…
By Mark Landler, The New York Times: Washington – President Obama has decided not to release photographs ofOsama bin Laden’s body, CBS News reported on Wednesday. Mr. Obama said he concluded that images of Bin…
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: “We need to counteract the shockwave of the evil-doer by having individual rate cuts accelerated, and by thinking about tax rebates.” – George W. Bush, October 2001 There is something…
In most of the world, May Day is an international workers’ holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century struggle of American workers for an eight-hour day. The May Day just past leads to somber reflection. …
On April 28, former US President Jimmy Carter and three former European heads of state landed in Seoul after travelling to Pyongyang to help reopen dialogue between the two Koreas. Known as the Elders, they…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently made a bold prediction that China will exceed the United States and become the world’s largest economy as early as 2016 in terms of purchasing power parity. This prediction…
By Wang Hanlu: Some Western countries recently have been claiming the “human rights overriding sovereignty” in high-sounding. However, it is only a public mask for some western clowns to hide their true faces of hegemonism…
By Raffiaflower Negotiating the way through Ai Weiwei-land and the barrage of mainstream media (msm) and Web opinions, Joni Mitchell’s song, “Both Sides Now,” on classic radio comes to mind: Old friends are acting strange…
By DeWang Recently, I asked Tsinghua University Professor, Yan Xuetong, “In your view, how could our world shift away from politics that’s dominated by power? Can China’s rise change that?” Previously, I wrote about Professor…