Tag: middle east

November 17, 2012 0

Understanding China’s Power Transition

By News Desk

 China’s Transition: Towards a Red Revival or Socialist Democracy?    November 17, 2012 ( Nile Bowie ) – As China’s 18th Communist Party Congress draws to a close, the world’s most populous nation prepares to install the country’s fifth generation of leadership since the Chinese Revolution of 1949

November 10, 2012 0

The Israeli Nightmare

By News Desk

Peace in Israel is the establishment’s worst nightmare.  an editorial by Tony Cartalucci November 10, 2012 – Israel is an excuse, a mandate, a perpetual casus belli, and both an ideological as well as literal beachhead in the Middle East. Created and propped up by the West, in particular the US and United Kingdom, it has served as the medium through which Western foreign policy flows in and out of the Arab, and to a greater extent, the Muslim World.

November 9, 2012 0

Color Revolutions: Argentina Next?

By News Desk

Suspicion grows as Western criticism of Argentina’s nationalization and rebuffing of “rules of global finance” sharpens in tandem with street protests.  Tony Cartalucci Land Destroyer November 9, 2012 Western media agencies have begun enthusiastically covering demonstrations in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires. CNN , AP , and the BBC have all covered the protests in equally vague terms, failing to identify the leaders and opposition groups behind them, while BBC in particular recycled “Arab Spring” rhetoric claiming that, “opposition activists used social networks to mobilise the march, which they said was one of the biggest anti-government protests in a decade.” The Western media claims the protesters are angry over, “rising inflation, high levels of crime and high-profile corruption cases,” all the identical, vague grievances brought into the streets by Wall Street-backed opposition groups in Venezuela