Journal: The Rise and Rise Further of Turkey (Along with the Collapse of Israel and the NeoCons)

Chuck Spinney Sends… As someone who has lived in Turkey for most of the last two years, I have watched the development of her foreign policy with great interest, not to mention a good deal of confusion It is hard to make sense out this rapidly-emerging, vibrant country of 70 million, increasingly well-educated, industrious people.  …

Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags Moral Clarity Israeli Style

Rattling the Cage: Our exclusive right to self-defense By LARRY DERFNER Oct 7, 2009 Virtually all of Israel is now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report, against any attempt to blame us over the war in Gaza. We’ve honed our message to a sharp point and, inspired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s performance …

Journal: The New “Cold War” Pakistan vs India, Many vs. Israel

Taliban claim Afghan bomb, say [Indian] embassy was target KABUL – The Taliban have claimed responsibility for Thursday’s suicide car bomb in the Afghan capital, saying their target was the Indian Embassy. Phi Beta Iota: India’s hands are not clean.  There are ample reports of India offering safe-haven bases for cross-border terrorism into Pakistan, and …

Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags Israel’s Use of Economic Strangulation (A Form of Genocide or Other Atrocity)

SANCTIMONEOUS HERESY: Right-wing Israelis demonstrate in Jabal Mukabber after hundreds ransacked the village in occupied East Jerusalem, destroying Palestinian property, March 2008. (Meged Gozani/Activestills) A third uprising? Gary M. Burge,The Electronic Intifada,3 August 2009 Gary M. Burge is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Chicago. He is author of Whose Land? Whose Promise? …