Steven Chovanec
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US Embassy Move Tears Last Fig Leaf Off Long-Standing US-Israeli Designs for Palestine
The U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem, and well as Israel's massacre in Gaza was a “recognition of the truth” of Israel's policy on Palestine. → Read More
The Massacre in Gaza: A Deliberate and Calculated Policy
It's state-sponsored terrorism that must be condemned. → Read More
In Venezuela, It's "Democracy" if US-Backed Candidates Are Empowered, "Tyranny" if They Are Not
Mainstream media have accepted the US propaganda. → Read More
ISIS Morphs from Deadly Enemy in Syria to Useful Weapon in Abu Kamal
The United States needs the Islamic State (ISIS), first as a pretext for the occupation of Syria then as a buffer to Iran in Abu Kamal. → Read More
The US is protecting ISIS to weaken rivals, expand US occupation of Syria
The dominant view of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS), Operation Inherent Resolve, is that its fundamental goal is the defeat of ISIS. And so, in the wake of the routing of ISIS… → Read More
As The CIA Resumes Arming Rebels, Trump Escalates Proxy War In Syria
At the start of the Trump presidency, it looked like the U.S. covert “regime change” war in Syria might be ending, but it has returned, zombie-like, in a slightly different form. → Read More
Caesar Photos: Torture & Impunity In Syria, Israel & The US
Demands for Syrian officials to be brought to justice over torture reports conveniently ignores U.S. complicity in torture around the world. → Read More
U.S. Energy: From The Oil Crisis To The White House Roof & Beyond
Fracked Earth News' Kate Lanier explains how the oil crisis & 1975's Energy Policy and Conservation Act still affects energy policy after the Iran Deal. → Read More
Cubans Reject Marco Rubio For Supporting Terrorism & Genocide
Here's why a recent New York Times profile of Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio called him Cuba's "least favorite son." → Read More
Airstrikes: The Ridiculous Revenge Strategy Against ISIS
Islamic State threatens Middle Eastern lives and stability, but airstrikes & executions won't work against them reports Palestinian blogger Mohammad Tomazy. → Read More
Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: That Dirty F-Word
Kate Lanier's selects the top global energy and sustainability news, from England's fracking ban to an indigenous oil protest on the Amazon. → Read More
Syriza & Podemos: A European Red Spring?
An American expatriate living in Spain puts the rise of Europe's far left-wing parties into historical perspective. → Read More
Prince Charles: Ceremonial Pimp of British-Saudi Venality
Royal visits to Saudi Arabia highlight how Middle Eastern countries with historic ties to the UK exert an increasing influence over its economy. → Read More
What's The Real Threat To Washington Of A Nuclear Iran?
US intelligence reports suggest Iran's nuclear capabilities are intended only to defend the country against aggression from Israel and the United States. → Read More
Spring Rising: Oppose The World Police State
Renowned activist Cindy Sheehan is calling for the a 2015 gathering in Washington, D.C. to oppose American imperialism, interventionism and endless war. → Read More
Ask Not For Whom The Wall Falls
Balloons of the art installation 'Lichtgrenze 2014' ("light border 2014") fly away at the East Side Gallery, a remnant of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin Sunday, Berlin Wall, Branko Milanovic, Buckley v. Valeo, capitalism, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Citizen’s United, Coca-Cola, Coke, Cold War, Dani Rodrik, democracy, Der Spiegel, Edward Bernays, France, French Revolution,… → Read More
Sweeping The Globe: #MillionMaskMarch Impossible To Ignore
Over 400 cities worldwide demonstrated what a REAL “Wave of Action” looks like, celebrating Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) by congregating in major city centres the world over to spread messages of awakening to their fellow citizens and commemorate the growth of the Anonymous movement. Becoming ever larger with each passing year, the Million Mask March (known as MMM) 2014 marks the first major… → Read More
The New Emancipation Movement: Facing the Servitude of Energy and Machines
The use of fossil fuels, and later nuclear energy, created a new form of slavery that degraded the masters’ spiritual well-being and social relations. It was a change that put the future in peril and increased human misery by damaging ecosystems and forcing millions of people to earn their living by the dictates of the extractive industries and the technological bureaucracies of nation states… → Read More
Introduction: A Forgotten Study Of Female Political Power In Muslim History
For me personally, the history of ruling women in Muslim history is a history of silence, exclusion, segregation and oblivion. Women strongly participated in Muslim politics and social affairs in the first generations after the Prophet Muhammad’s era. Then, step by step, the androcentric interpretations of Quran and Sunnah put women aside and caused their progressive horizontal segregation by… → Read More
Artificial Intelligence: Our "Next Big Idea" For Destroying Humanity
Sometimes I wonder if artificial intelligence doesn't already exist and has quietly taken over the world without our noticing it. Even the word "artificial" is misleading, because the question is not really about a superior intelligence residing in a device or machine. The question is whether this "thing" has become a "being," with a sense of its separate identity, an ego, an instinct for… → Read More