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The harsh reality of the "Free World"

The New Life of Cuban Dissidents in Spain

by Salim Lamrani

22 July 2012

For three months, former Cuban "political prisoners" have been staging a sit-in outside ... the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Salim Lamrani analyzes this protest - to which the mainstream media have devoted very little coverage - in light of the Spanish promises that fueled the dreams (...)

Libyan Islamists go to Syria to "help" the revolution

by Daniel Iriarte

22 December 2011

Spanish pro-monarchy daily newspaper ABC published, in its edition of 17 December 2011, the testimony of its special envoy to Syria, the celebrated photojournalist Daniel Iriarte. Inside the Free Syrian Army, the journalist encountered senior Al Qaeda officials from Libya.

ABC’s Barbara Walters’ Interview With Bashar al-Assad

by Bashar al-Assad

Damascus (Syria) | 7 December 2011

The main chain of U.S. television has made an exclusive interview with Bashar al-Assad. Syrian President spent three hours answering journalist Barbara Walters who had in the past spent a flattering portrait of his wife. However, the channel did not broadcast the whole interview, but extracts (...)

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“They Fled Away Like Gangsters”: Murder & Greed in Baghdad

by Hank P. Albarelli Jr.

22 October 2010

A US attorney is bringing suit in a Federal court against a private foreign-based "security" company for needlessly and brutally killing two Iraqi women back in 2007. This case is directly connected to the lucrative business of “promoting democracy” and “security”. Hank Albarelli follows the (...)

“Mongrel”: Historically, and from Obama’s Mouth

by Glen Ford

New York (USA) | 9 August 2010

The author rightfully takes issue with Barack Obama’s way of describing himself. Although Obama is publicly identified as African-American, there is very little of that culture and perspective in him. This phenomenon was exploited by the ruling class when they chose him to run for President. (...)

"NATO’s role in Afghanistan"

by Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

15 February 2006

About five years ago, Afghanistan was the launching base of the world’s worst terrorist attack when it was one of the oppressed countries of the world. Today, the Afghan population has elected its first pluralist parliament which, for several years, has counted on an incredible amount of (...)

“A Condor soars over the Andes”

by Carlos Malamud

17 January 2006

The categorical victory of Evo Morales has expended rivers of ink. The headlines of the world press highlight the indigenous origin of the new president and his ties with Castro and Chavez. All these ideas show the fears over Latin America due to the combination of indigenousness and populism. (...)

“The war presidency”

by William Kristol

14 September 2005

On August 24, 2005, George W. Bush reaffirmed that the terrorists would not make us giving up Iraq and that we would succeed in the war against terrorism. It was important to say it clearly at a time when some people, among which advocates of the president, started to say that the war against (...)

“Just the fact of meeting with Basáyev triggered rage”

by Andreï Babitsky

7 September 2005

I took some vacations and went to Prague by car. I drove through Czequia, Poland, Ukraine, and ended my tour in a cab up to Ingushetia. I wanted to meet with the military chief Doku Umarov and the new president Abdul Halim Sadulaiev. I talked to the representatives of the government of (...)