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Why is the West So Silent About The Yemeni War?

by Martha Mundy

4 October 2015

Anthropologist Martha Mundy denounces the silence of the main powers on the war in Yemen. She recalled the challenges that this country represents for Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The Move to Muzzle Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala

The Bête Noire of the French Establishment

by Diana Johnstone

Paris (France) | 5 January 2014

This article, originally published in the United States, intends to explain to a foreign audience the French government’s hysterical condemnation of the country’s most popular humorist, Dieudonné. Diana Johnstone seizes this opportunity to show why and how the French ruling class has abandoned (...)

Is Latin America Really Turning Left?

by James Petras

Caracas (Venezuela) | 24 June 2006

A new series of social and national polarities in the WesternHemisphere has dominated political life over the past few years. Atthe beginning of the new millennium the national confrontation was between Cuba and the US/EU, and the social confrontations between therural/indian and (...)

“Don’t be Fooled. This isn’t an Issue of Islam versus Secularism”

by Robert Fisk

2 March 2006

The story about the cartoons has nothing to do with what has been called the issue of Islam versus secularism. The fact is that Muslims live with their religion in their daily lives, culture, but not us. They have preserved their faith beyond countless historical vicissitudes. We, on the (...)

“Beyond the ballot”

by Noam Chomsky

30 January 2006

George W. Bush called December elections in Iraq a “major milestone in the march to democracy”. They are indeed a milestone, but not just the kind that London and Washington would welcome. When George W. Bush and Tony Blair invaded Iraq, the pretext was the weapons of mass destruction. (...)