Osama bin Laden is no martyr. He is certainly no Che Guevara, whose fate at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency was strikingly similar to his. But one cannot escape the fact that he succeeded in unleashing a chain of events that led to his nemesis, the United States, becoming a diminished power compared [...]

La noticia de que el presidente Barack Obama ha elegido al general David Petraeus como director de la CIA provoca preguntas inquietantes, incluida la de si el comandante más asociado con las guerras en Iraq y Afganistán tolerará un análisis objetivo de esos dos conflictos. ¿Qué pasará si los analistas de la [...]

The brutality of Libyan leader Moammar Ghaddafi, and his refusal to concede power, is costing Libya much more than innocent lives. The country is now also facing a possible loss of future independence and sovereignty. From its early days, the Libyan revolt seemed to take a difference course than those of [...]

Why are countries such as Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain facing bloody battles for change? The Arab Spring is in full bloom. Peaceful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt sparked a democratic tide that has swept across the region. Young Arabs have taken to the streets in vast numbers, their disaffection for the dictators and [...]

Afghanistan may be the graveyard of empires, but Iraq is home to a graveyard sense of humor. Iraqis wonder aloud whether the U.S. and Britain would have invaded Iraq if its main export had been cabbages instead of oil. However obvious the answer, a remarkable array of American pundits and pseudo-savants have [...]

A spoken word track, written in Toronto, recorded in Doha, remixed in Manama, dedicated to Baghdad.    

The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West’s response to popular uprisings in strategic, resource-rich regions of the world and the beginning of a war of attrition against the new imperial rival, China. President Barack Obama’s historical distinction is now guaranteed. [...]

Las tácticas de guerra han cambiado. Las amenazas son diferentes y no se pueden combatir con métodos convencionales. El enemigo del gobierno estadounidense dejo de usar uniforme militar y se es casi imposible distinguir entre la población que se quiere “proteger”. Hasta se puede decir que no hay distinción alguna: [...]

Vosotros invadís Bahréin. Nosotros eliminamos a Muamar Gadafi en Libia. Es, en breve, la esencia de un trato cerrado entre el gobierno de Barack Obama y la Casa de Saud. Dos fuentes diplomáticas de las Naciones Unidos lo confirmaron independientemente de que Washington, a través de la secretaria de Estado Hillary [...]

Mentira, hipocresía y programas secretos. De eso no habló el presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, cuando explicó su doctrina libia a EE.UU. y al mundo. La mente se aturde con tantos agujeros negros que engullen esta espléndida guerrita que no es una guerra (una “acción militar, limitada en el tiempo, limitada [...]