Category Archives: External Affairs

The reporting, analysis and “expert” reflection on the egregious Boston Marathon bombings have revealed an unreflective nationalism and a preoccupation with prevention through law enforcement. While we don’t know at this point what drove the brothers Dzokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev to … Continue reading →

Before we cascade into another land war in Asia let us put the recent statements of Kim Jong-un in context. The leader of the DPRK has threatened South Korea and the United States with nuclear war and declared the 1953 … Continue reading →

  Criminal Genocide of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 I noticed I was receiving many visits for this piece on the Hiroshima genocide that I posted some five years ago and updated today. It appeared in a Dutch article on genocide … Continue reading →

Dr Henry Kissinger, who should be spending his fourth decade in prison for crimes committed against humanity in Vietnam, Chile and throw in Indonesia, has written yet another op ed for the Washington Post. It is titled, “Iran Should be … Continue reading →

Dimona: where Israel develops, constructs and presumably stores many of its atomic and thermonuclear weapons. It is beyond belief that during this manufactured crisis of Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon, no one mentions that Israel is a major nuclear-weapons state … Continue reading →

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda center, offers silent prayer during the ceremony to mark the 67th anniversarty of the atomic bombing at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012.  (AP Photo/Kyodo News) from the Atlanta … Continue reading →

The deaths of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria are merely a symptom, tragic as it is, of Israel’s failure to act in an appropriate and more restrained manner in its relations with Iran. This egregious act is no less heinous than … Continue reading →

MSNBC talking head Chris Hayes has been forced to apologise for his astute comment on Sunday, May 27, 2012, that he was “uncomfortable” by the blanket worshipping of all fallen soldiers, sailors, marines, airpersons as ‘heroes.” Well some might be but … Continue reading →

UPDATED May 14, 2012: The greatest threat to international security and justice should be resisted with non-violent civil disobedience. It is a disgrace to the City of Chicago to host this violent, selfish, remorselessly aggressive organisation. The North Atlantic Treaty … Continue reading →

The SEAL team assassins invaded a third country on May 1, 2011 and shot to death a man sleeping with his wife who tried to protect him, Usama Bin Laden. These courageous heroes wounded her as well with gunfire in Abbottabad, a garrison town … Continue reading →

It is quite maddening to see the Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu (Mr War Hawk Colonialist Benjamin Netanyahu) make his spring pilgrimage to raise money for his colonialist enterprise in the Levant. A small one but quite lethal. The tyrant … Continue reading →

Isarel does not get it. A proclaimed Jewish state with 25% of its citizens of Muslim faith is so antithetical to the American way of life, that one wonders why the “Israeli Exception” is tolerated. The US denounces terrrorism but looks … Continue reading →

After slaughtering 2-3 million Vietnamese in a war of deliberate racial and ethnic extermination, another 100,000 are dead or wounded from unexploded weaponry left behind in 1975 as the US ran away from Vietnam up a ladder of the Embassy … Continue reading →

I strongly endorse the actions of those who are protesting this elite monster’s continued privileged status in America. I endorse those who remain outraged at Dr Kissinger’s repeated violations of international humanitarian law, the laws of war and even American … Continue reading →

“Patriotism means a love for your country and not hate for others.” Charles Schenck  World War I pamplet The United States of America continues to demonstrate its capacity to kill individuals in targeted-assassination campaigns. Now they are killing Americans such … Continue reading →

Dr Howard Zinn a month after the 9/11 attacks on the hard-target Pentagon, the Twin Towers of New York and subsequent crash and death of air passengers in Shanksville, Penna. spoke on the meaning of these events at the Massachusetts College of … Continue reading →

The United States is beginning to recognise, however belatedly, its responsibility for the greatest war crime in history: the atomic genocide and extermination of 100,000s of innocents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Last year President Obama sent Ambassador John Roos to … Continue reading →

America’s Hitler: President Harry S Truman, adored by historians Most historians in the US now consider President Harry S Truman to have achieved great president iconography. The new “revisionism” is typical of American historiography. Emphasise crisis management, toughness, resolve in … Continue reading →

In an op-ed “A Step Toward Trust With China” in the New York Times the outgoing chair”man” of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, presents a faux moderation in his call for a more transparent, open military dialogue with the … Continue reading →

In the land of censorship and faux democracy, Amerika, they have presumably removed the YouTube video of Dr Zawahri concerning the death of Sheikh Usama Bin Laden that I had posted earlier. At least when I returned to Aljazeera the … Continue reading →

In the June 8, 2011 video the Egyptian physician and Al Qaeda presumptive leader denounces the burial of Usama Bin Laden at sea on May 2, 2011 and the continued occupation of Muslim countries by western powers. Al Qaeda has … Continue reading →

The Guardian has published a comment from three of the four panel members of the Goldstone Report that accused Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its vicious, assault on Gaza in 2008-2009. They are a Pakistani human … Continue reading →

SXU Professors Condemn Nuclear Energy In light of the nuclear crisis in Japan, two Saint Xavier University professors make the case to ban nuclear energy in Illinois and throughout the world By Matt Klinkert Oak Lawn Patch April 3, 2011 … Continue reading →