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Israeli Democracy Fades To Black

by Lawrence Davidson December 3, 2011

Just in the past few weeks the Knesset has spat out a number of bills aimed at restricting the voices of Jewish opponents and to make it more difficult for them to secure appointed offices. Part of a continuing line of similar legislation, these new potential laws represent scenes in the final act of this tragedy.

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Dreams of Democracy

by Paul J. Balles November 8, 2011

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

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From Arab Spring to jobless summers

by Paul J. Balles August 16, 2011

Few young people consider what effect their protests will have. Little heed gets paid by these youthful protesters to the cost of their revolutionary zeal. They blithely ignore the disaster their activities have caused to their national economies.

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US Independence Day reflections

by Paul J. Balles July 10, 2011

Paul J. Balles reflects on the US Independence Day and asks: if, as the American Declaration of Independence says, “all men are created equal”, then why do Americans act as if that fundamental principle applies only to citizens of the USA?

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The Death of American Democracy [Video]

by Anthony Lawson June 25, 2011

The collapses of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, on September 11, 2001, were the most frightening images that I have ever seen, up until May 24th, 2011, when Binyamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the United States Congress and received 29 standing ovations, along with many other outbursts of sycophantic applause.

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The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies

by SR Editor June 24, 2011

Both Bush and Obama are terrified of the Arab spring. And there is a very sensible reason for that. They don’t want democracies in the Arab world. If Arab public opinion had any influence on policy, the US and Britain had been tossed out of the Middle East. That’s why they are terrified of democracies in the region.

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No Savior

by SR Editor June 20, 2011

Fayyad cannot be held primarily responsible for this collective self-delusion; at most, he facilitated it. And in the process he provided all actors with a breathing space that is now disappearing. Ultimately, the ones who convinced themselves he was capable of completely transforming Palestine are most responsible for squandering the brief respite his premiership offered.

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The Democracy Revolutions and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

by SR Editor March 26, 2011

So that while until now it was the region’s democratic deficit that supposedly prevented Israel from ending its occupation, now it is the region’s surfeit of democracy that stands in its way.

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Britain cherry-picks which war criminals to prosecute and where to impose no-fly zones

by Stuart Littlewood March 5, 2011

Stuart Littlewood highlights the incredible, blatant hypocrisy of the British government, foremost Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague, who are applying one standard to the criminal Libyan regime of Mu’ammar Gaddafi while going out of their way to protect and justify the crimes of another criminal regime, that of Israel.

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What next?

by Paul J. Balles March 5, 2011

What are we going to do?
Who’s going to do it?
How are we going to do it?
Who’s going to clean up the mess afterwards?

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Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations

by James Petras March 3, 2011

Street-based movements lack the organization and leadership to project, let alone impose a new political or social order. Their power is found in their ability to pressure existing elites and institutions, not to replace the state and economy. Hence the surprising ease with which the US, Israeli and EU backed Egyptian military were able to seize power and protect the entire rentier state and economic structure while sustaining their ties with their imperial mentors.

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Major Media Promote War on Libya

by Stephen Lendman March 3, 2011

When imperial America wants war, peace advocates are shut out by official rhetoric and hawkish media reports supporting militarism, not diplomatic efforts to achieve peace. Those for it aren’t heard. Hugo Chavez’s government is one. On February 28, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro, warned against belligerence.

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Wolf in Shepherd’s Clothing: Gadhafi Blames al-Qaeda and Arms Supporters

by SR Editor March 3, 2011

he Gadhafi family is quite used to being isolated and shunned and their defiant tone indicates that economic sanctions will have little effect.

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Freedom From Arab Tyrants Will Free Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah March 3, 2011

Far too long we Arabs have been silent while our tyrants, our faith, our trillions, our oil, our land, our people, and our Palestine have long been subjected to the political, economic, and military brutal occupation, genocide, theft, racism, Islamophobia, and domination by the Israeli-American axis; but we Arabs will be silent no more.

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Tripoli – A City in the Shadow of Death

by SR Editor February 25, 2011

Gunfire in the suburbs – and hunger and rumour in the capital as thousands race for last tickets out of a city sinking into anarchy.

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