Thoughts on Western Jihad by John Feffer August 6, 2009 The actor Will Smith is no one’s image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has often played comic roles. Even as the last man on earth in I Am Legend, he retains a wise-cracking, ironic demeanor. And yet, surrounded by a horde of hyperactive vampires [...]

por Editorial (La Jornada) 3 de agosto, 2009 En días recientes, Nigeria se ha visto azotada por una oleada de violencia a raíz de los enfrentamientos entre las fuerzas públicas de esa nación y la milicia islámica Boko Haram, que busca la imposición de la sharia (ley islámica) en todo el país, y a la que se [...]

by Jeremy Scahill August 4, 2009 A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or [...]

A Century of Frenzy over the North-West Frontier by Juan Cole July 27, 2009 WHAT, what, what, What’s the news from Swat? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable led Through the Indian Ocean’s bed, Through the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Med- Iterranean — he ‘s dead; The Ahkoond is dead! – George Thomas Lanigan

versión en español abajo The Left and Islam by Gilad Atzmon July 10, 2009 “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” – Karl Marx 1843

versión en español abajo by Noam Chomsky July 9, 200 June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.

by Arundhati Roy July 13, 2009 Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia? While we’re still arguing about whether there’s life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By democracy I don’t mean democracy as an ideal or an [...]

The Islamic Revolution Faces the Classic Dilemma of All Revolutions By Dilip Hiro June 28, 2009 By marshalling the regime’s coercive instruments, Iran’s 70-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, has, for now, succeeded in curbing the popular, peaceful challenge to the authenticity of Iran’s fateful June 12th presidential election. But he has paid a heavy political price.

Moshé Machover June 2009 HOW SHOULD we think about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Please note: how comes before what. Before coming to any substantive conclusions—certainly before taking sides—we must be clear as to how the issue ought to be approached.

por Ezequiel Adamovsky, historiador e investigador de CONICET 29 de mayo, 2009 En estos días, una acción de una agrupación de izquierda en denuncia a los crímenes del Estado de Israel fue presentada en los medios como una “agresión antisemita” o “antisionista”, como si ambos términos fueran sinónimos. Fue evidente la intención de los diarios y canales [...]