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Dan Lieberman is the editor of Alternative Insight, a monthly web based newsletter. His website articles have been read in more than 150 nations, while articles written for other websites have appeared in online journals throughout the world(B 92, Al Jazeera, Gulf News, Times of India, The Hindu, Indymedia, Occupation Magazine, Pravda, Scoop, Emirates Tribune, Gulf times, Khaleej Times, Al-ahram weekly, Journal of Turkish Weekly, Middle East online, Global Comment, Daily news-EU, Dissident Voice, and many others) and include translations into French, German and Spanish.
Articles have served as teaching resources in several universities, including Howard, Stanford , Northwestern Law School, Emerson College, U. of Texas. References and excerpts have appeared in multitudes of academic and conference papers. Several articles have become Internet classics, each attracting about ten thousand readers annually, even ten years after publication (Origins of Soviet/Afghan War, Origins of Korean War, Health as a Socio-economic Problem, Failures of US Foreign Policies, Reparations for Afro-Americans.)
He is author of the book A Third Party Can Succeed in America and a Kindle: The Artistry of a Dog.
SHARE Wednesday, June 1, 2022 The Greatest Replacement
Frontier America instrumented the greatest replacement of the modern era, that is until the Zionists invaded the Levant. Considering the ratio of ethnically cleansed populations to the areas of their stolen properties, the ratio is magnitudes greater in the latter case. What is now called Israel, and should rightfully be called Palestine, is the result of the greatest replacement of the last centuries.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 14, 2021 A National Pension Plan Saves Social Security
Only a National Pension Plan can provide a suitable and secure financial arrangement for retirees. Fortunately, Social Security already has the framework for a National Pension Plan.
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SHARE Wednesday, August 25, 2021 Wandering 40 Years in the Afghan Desert
The Taliban have taken military control, but Afghanistan's future is cloudy. Assumption that the Taliban can, by itself, effectively govern a nation divided by conflicting tribal loyalties and a partially reconstituted population, with a sharply contrary mindset, needs more validation. Rather than facts, agendas have delegated responsibility for the debacle in Afghanistan.
SHARE Thursday, June 3, 2021 Remember the Name - Sheikh Jarrah
Attempt to evict Palestinian families from homes escalated from what Israel termed "a real-estate dispute," into Israel and Gaza being pounded by military weapons. Attempt to evict Palestinian families from homes escalated into worldwide defense of Palestinian rights and demands for an end to their continuous oppression. Sheikh Jarrah has left a permanent imprint on history. The world will remember the name - She
SHARE Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Democratic Party's Big Mistake ─ Support for Israel
Those who fear the end of democracy take no heed to a fundamental cause of the threat - Israel. President Biden has an opportunity to separate the Democratic Party from the worldwide chauvinists, who believe in their superiority and that might makes right.
SHARE Sunday, January 17, 2021 Illogical Thinking Leading to Illogical Actions
Preventing the assault on America's capitol was not exclusively a policing failure; the twisted behavior culminated from inadequate response to Trump and his supporters' unsubstantiated attacks on the validity of the 2020 election.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 28, 2020 The One-State ─ Deposition Before Imposition
The one-state cannot be achieved without changing Israel's legal and administrative structures, difficult tasks whose possibilities are remote. Deposing the characteristics of the Zionist mission that defines Israel is more plausible. Deposition precedes imposition; destroying the framework that supports Israel allows a new foundation for constructing a new state ─ a one-state, the natural state.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 16, 2020 Trump's Lesser Economy
When a multitude of factors, rather than a few handpicked factors, are considered, during Trump's term in office, U.S. economic progress has been meager, and China's economic power might have eclipsed that
of the United States.
SHARE Monday, April 27, 2020 Is This a Trump Epidemic in the United States?
Although President Trump, in his daily press conferences, attempts to show that his administration is succeeding in containing the epidemic, the April 22, 2020 report from worldometers demonstrated the opposite; the United States had 1/3rd of the coronavirus cases and 1/4th of the coronavirus deaths worldwide. Could the response be more catastrophic?
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Democratic Socialism Will Soon Replace Capitalism
Governments are needed that can assure safety and security of all worlds peoples, no matter their economic status, and no matter the hardships of the prevailing circumstances. Wealth will be immaterial, and escaping human extinction will be the motivation, requiring government action in many aspects of human existence. Capitalism will slowly evolve into a Democratic Socialist system that will be able to provide the structu
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2020 America is Now Democratic Socialist
As of March 2020, the United States is operating as a more than strict Democratic Socialist system, regulating aspects of American life. Disappointing that Democratic Socialists have failed to capitalize on this historical moment, which shows a desperate need for Democratic Socialism.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Democratic Socialism Can Prevent the Catastrophe
Capitalism has reached its peak. Change arrives from realization that Earth is on fire and only a united and collective community can dampen the conflagration.
SHARE Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Does Capitalisn Mean War
Add economic warfare to the violent military actions that has decimated populations, and the question "Does Capitalism Mean War?" leans to a positive answer.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 17, 2014 A National Summit: All About Israel
Public discussion, which has diminished in recent years, on the Palestinian/Israeli crisis received a powerful impetus with The National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship, March 7 at the National Press Club, Washington, DC.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 5, 2013 The War of Narratives - Bringing truth to the Middle East crisis
It seems strange that Jews embrace the dubious connection with wandering tribes and errant kings and reject the well-established memories of their most precious epochs and proud moments of history -- their centuries of sojourn in Mesopotamia and Persia.
SHARE Saturday, May 25, 2013 Deaths of the "no-state" Palestinians are Proportional to Life of the Two State Solution.
If the Zionists realized their prominent role in causing the crisis, and made amends, then the course of history might dislodge the impediments to a just resolution. Because its continued mention drowns out discussion on other relevant resolutions, the two-state solution will not disappear until after the Palestinian community fades into history.
SHARE Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Obama Faces Middle East Critics
The dreams and pursuits that brought Barack Obama into office have tied his initiatives. He can only fulfill dreams and not promises.
SHARE Monday, June 18, 2012 The Failure of Peace Without Partners
Woodrow Wilson Center featured former Israeli Shin Bet leader, Amihai Ayalon, in a book presentation: Peace Without Partners: Can Israeli Unilateralism Lead to a Two-State Solution? Careful examination of the proposal reveals sub-text. No matter whether Ami Ayalon was cognizant or unaware, he framed a document of surrender for a Palestinian Authority to sign, and Israel dictates the surrender terms.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 26, 2011 U.S. Policies Motivate Iran to Obtain a Nuclear Weapon
After tacitly agreeing to Israel's nuclear weapon developments and permitting India and Pakistan to go nuclear, the United States engages Iran in a similar manner to its engagement with North Korea - provoking Iran to develop a bomb in another "lose-lose" situation.
SHARE Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Independent Turkey Sets a New Tone for a Troubled World
Kemalism will soon be proved as either past history or a spoke in the cycles of history. As the wheel turns, will Kemal Ataturk's visions and policies return and challenge another Turkish Republic? The verdict is still not rendered.
SHARE Thursday, October 27, 2011 Trajectory Of Middle East Conflict
Put it all together and we have an alignment of forces that completely, except for Jordan for the time being, surround Israel and contain aggressive militants, willing to fight vociferously for Arab and Muslim causes.
SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Beyond the Palestinians' Crisis
The closer the Arab nations get to achieving nationalist aspirations and political acceptance of its Muslim Brotherhoods, the more intense becomes their conflict with Israel.
(11 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 14, 2011 A Palestinian State Saves All From Catastrophe
Recognition of a Palestinian state initiates a reversal of the trend to the larger danger and saves a great many from catastrophe. What more can those who value life want for themselves and others?
SHARE Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Forcibly Challenging the Media
TIME WORLD shows no regard for publishing possible falsehoods, for not verifying facts, and for not recognizing obvious contradictions in a published article.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 1, 2011 NATO Conquers Libya
On the day its planes and drones attacked North African ground, NATO decided the outcome of the Libyan rebellion.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 25, 2011 The Economic Sinkhole
Close association between Wall Street Journal and barren right wing economic ideologues are revealed in a WSJ editorial.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 14, 2011 How to Create an Economic Downfall
The U.S. Congress, conventional economics, and conventional media have misinterpreted the deficit crisis. It's not a crisis due to government mismanagement. It's a crisis due to private mismanagement and a failure to recognize that the economic system runs on debt and needs a much-needed overhaul.
SHARE Sunday, August 7, 2011 Slanting Rafik Hariri's Assassination
The UN Tribunal did not mention a political assassination, refer to the involvement of any political Party, or indicate that the indicted acted for a specific organization.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 28, 2011 The New Sicarii
In ancient times, their efforts contributed to the destruction of Jerusalem and its Jewish population. Now they could destroy the entire Middle East and world Jewry. What else could make them happier?
SHARE Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Misshaping the Middle East
Eight years after the US invasion of Iraq , daily bombings and mayhem in Iraq still occur. The Iraqis cannot have peace. The similarity between the two military adventures, especially the concentration on the disposable of one person to resolve the nation's situation, forecasts a similar unfolding of events. Due to NATO, the Libyan people can expect years of havoc.
SHARE Sunday, June 12, 2011 Gulag Revelations
GULag is one of those words for which nothing more need be said. No need for history; the word GULag explains it all. Finally a bold and intrepid researcher goes beyond the word and documents a more accurate portrayal of the Soviet labor camp system.
SHARE Thursday, June 9, 2011 Understanding Pakistan
Since Pakistan is vital in the War on Terrorism, why can't the United States administrations learn to understand and handle Pakistan so it is an effecive ally rather than a confused state?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Critical analysis of The Libyan interim Prime Minister
Libya's opposition leader, Dr. Mahmoud Gibril Elwarfally is either the awaited hope of the Libyan people or another Ahmad Chalabi, the CIA's favorite Iraqi opposition leader.
SHARE Thursday, May 12, 2011 Sad Refrain from Bahrain
Reports from Bahrain describe a growing menace to the protestors.
The media and world bodies have generally ignored the Bahrain protests, making it difficult to know what is happening. Emails from an activist in Bahrain illuminate some of the occurrences and highlight how the struggle has grown from seeking equality in life to receiving a punishing death. It's a sad and captivating story.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 17, 2011 Gadhafi faces the West - The other side of the coin
None of the mayhem created by Gadhafi can be pardoned. Nevertheless, if the U.S. and European nations also recognized the horrors they have inflicted upon a helpless world, they would have a better case. Duality is also a psychological phenomenon.
SHARE Sunday, April 3, 2011 The Media and the Attack on Libya
The characterizations of Gadhai might be correct, but when the media uses spurious and contradictory statements to expose his 'untruths,' its rhetoric become questionable and its reports lose credibility.
SHARE Monday, March 14, 2011 Muammar Al Gaddafi Meets his own Rebels
Gaddafi saw himself soaring above others, but never actually left his extravagant tent. Examination of counterproductive and destructive foreign policies indicates U.S. leaders also see themselves as wandering far, but their minds rarely leave the white columned mansion.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 3, 2011 The Shia Seek Justice - Bahrain Faces its Faceless
Instead of inciting division and hatred, and juggling Middle East lives to favor their own interests, isn't it preferable that western agencies and governments encourage a Shi'i/Sunni rapport? Start with Bahrain .
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 20, 2011 The Tax Deception - Do reducing taxes help the economy?
Obama's deficit spending halted the bleeding. What must the administration do to create jobs and diminish unemployment? Debatable. Add to the debate an analysis that unproven shibboleths, such as maintaining low taxes, confuse the issue and are counterproductive.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 6, 2010 A National Pension Plan Revisited
Social Security history indicates only a National Pension Plan can provide a suitable and secure financial arrangement for retirees and SS already has the framework for a National Pension Plan.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Driving the Mullahs Mad
Although U.S. policies can be shaped so that Iran becomes a force for peace, the present trajectory of policies tends towards another counterproductive and destructive engagement.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Victimization and a Cultural Center
Although "ground zero' should and will always be a remembered site, victims die only once; victimization causes death forever. Post 9/11 events corroborate this assumption.
SHARE Friday, August 13, 2010 The Pavlov Response and the Cordoba House
Reactions to the construction of Cordoba House reveal more than ingrained prejudice and hypocrisy; they reveal jealousy, incomprehensible attitudes of self-importance, condescension, and patronization, ignorance that emphasizes separation, and a possible conspiracy that can easily pass unnoticed.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 The Unholy Trinity
An Unholy Trinity has coalesced on the American political scene with intent to wrest control of United States foreign and domestic policies.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 10, 2010 The Ignored Seriousness of Vocal Terrorism
Unwarranted and sinister verbal attacks, false charges of anti-Semitism, labeling innocents as "self-hating Jews,' or being anti-Israel are terrorist actions meant to terrorize legitimate commentators. Distorted words lead to perverse deeds and the deeds can eventually lead to deadly actions. Why wait for the latter and not halt the incipient action?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 6, 2010 Listen to Affected Voices and We Will Have Middle East Peace
Why has peace in the Middle East not been attainable? Clues are revealed in the Lebanese and Gaza conflagrations. They come from another question. Why did Israel react strongly to tit-for-tat skirmishes that had occurred for years, and in its reaction destroy infrastructure in Lebanon and Gaza, and kill, maim and impoverish populations, knowing that retaliation would kill and wound its own people?
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 11, 2010 The Strange Love Affair of the U.S. and AIPAC
Why and for what reason do government officials cater to AIPAC? Don't they know AIPAC's inglorious history and its one-sided purpose? Actually, government officials have many reasons to distance themselves from AIPAC and no reasons to associate themselves with an organization whose thrust depends upon spurious reasoning and outrageous statements
SHARE Monday, March 15, 2010 A Complacent West Confronts a Smug Israel
Isn't it obvious that the announcement to build 1,600 new homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo is part of a well contrived plan?
SHARE Thursday, March 11, 2010 J Street - Two Years after its Formation
There might be a shift in the ranks, but J Street, knowingly or unknowingly, essentially caters to another clientele. This clientele is more considerate and less dogmatic, but J Street still must prove that it does not, in effect, complement AIPAC.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 21, 2010 U.S. Middle East Policy - A Road to Disaster
From Vietnam to Angola to Nicaragua, Somalia and on to Iraq and Afghanistan, United States foreign policies degraded into military interventions and proved counterproductive -" accomplishing the very results the policies were formulated to prevent.
SHARE Wednesday, September 16, 2009 The Tangled Course to Middle East Peace - Crisis and not Conflict
A 180 degree rotation of the elements in the present peace process combined with Israel no longer being favored and no longer allowed to frame the process provides a direction for solving the Middle East crisis.
SHARE Sunday, August 2, 2009 The New Puritans - Calculating the trajectory of the Middle East conflict
The Zionist Jewish narrative closely follows the Separatist Puritan narrative. The early years of the development of the nation of Israel parallels the Puritan experience in America. Let's hope the trajectory will be detoured and the Israelis don't prove to be the New Puritans.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 20, 2009 Why Jerusalem? Israel's Hidden Agenda
If Israel is modifying Jerusalem's heritage and subjugating its spiritual meaning, why does Israel want to unify Jerusalem?
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 11, 2009 Palestinian Nationalism
The Palestinians need a state not just to live within borders. They need a state that all peoples claim, especially those who are dispossessed, to assure ontological security and to survive.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2009 Arabesque-More Significant than Apparent
The Kennedy Center's festival of Arab culture, which brought to Washington's principal cultural center the music, voices and heritage of the 22 Arab nations, proved to be a political breakthrough.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 25, 2009 Israel Faces the Gaza Aftermath
Still not revealed are exact reasons for Israel's attack, its sudden willingness to halt the damage and what awaits a shaken Middle East in the future.
(29 comments) SHARE Monday, January 12, 2009 The Only Exit from Gaza is Death
The drama has subtext; undisclosed reasons for Israel's attack, unstated significance of the escalated conflict, and a non-clarified future for its final denouement. Search the entire landscape and we encounter happenings beyond the horizon. Missing from the debate are the disastrous consequences to the world community due to Israel's aggressive actions
SHARE Monday, December 29, 2008 World Leaders Respond Timidly to Israeli Attacks on Gaza
The tepid response of world leaders to Israel's ferocious attack on a defenseless Gaza conveys a helpless feeling to all world citizens – brutality rules and we are all vulnerable to attack.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 1, 2008 Stimulating the U.S. Government to Bankruptcy
Secretary Paulson's contradictory and not easily decipherable plans are doomed to either provoke a huge depression or bankrupt the US treasury. President elect Barack Obama's proposals for stimulating the economy by massive government investments in infrastructure and job creation also leads to huge government deficits, but promises to increase the tax base and tax revenue so that deficits don't regenerate.
SHARE Friday, November 7, 2008 Challenge of New Statism
The liberal democracies have experienced financial shocks and reacted, but not as free market advocates expected. Adam Smith's name is not being loudly heard in the world's central banks. Instead we have western governments recommending federal interference in their poorly regulated economies and incorporating methods similar to those that guide New Statist nations, such as China and Russia.
SHARE Saturday, October 11, 2008 The Trade Balance and the Limits of the Paulson Rescue Plan
The $700 billion plus purchase of financial instruments, which essentially trades cash for trash, even if necessary, is an insufficient measure for resolving the "once in a hundred years," economic crisis. There must be more to the crisis than meets the eye.
SHARE Monday, September 22, 2008 The Great Bailout
Secretary Paulson's plan to prevent collapse of the financial system prompts immediate and unanswered questions:
Will the Paulson plan fulfill its intentions or will it worsen what it wants to correct?
The health of the financial system is a major problem, but is it the problem, and does it disguise the true problem?
SHARE Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Reconciliation of Sunni and Sh'ia
An Iraq that evolves into a non-sectarian democracy initiates a hopeful path to stabilization of the Middle East. This task cannot be accomplished before the Western world recognizes its role in aggravating Middle East problems. Instead of inciting division and hatred, and juggling Middle East lives to favor their own interests, shouldn't western agencies and governments encourage an Arab-Iran reconciliation?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 15, 2008 Has the 'Surge" Prevented Peace?
Realignment of forces without reconciliation of populations spells confrontation. A 'surge' that made all this possible seems to have made reconciliation less possible, which translates into a 'surge" that has provided additional obstacles to peace and stability.
SHARE Thursday, July 31, 2008 From Usurpation to Liberation
The suffering due to occupation and a perspective of Israel as a colonizer drives the Palestinians to a war of liberation. Hope for success is enhanced by Israel's inability to accumulate a sufficient mass of world Jewry to labor for a Jewish homeland. Hopelessness that foresees failure is dictated by Israel's acts that subdue the Palestinians. Ferocity of the Israel campaign certifies it is fighting a liberation movement.
(14 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 3, 2008 Harsh Reality of Middle East Conflict
A century old conflict between the state of Israel and stateless Palestinians, many of whom have been disposed from lands that created the Israel state, has provoked an argument: Is it preferable to have two states living side by side or have one state from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River that includes Jews and Palestinians without prejudice and with equal rights for all?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Face to Face With Hezbollah
Meetings with Hezbollah and Lebanese officials together with a trip to southern Lebanon, as a member of a Council for National Interest peace delegation, revealed much about the nature of the Party of God. The voyage started in Beirut.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, December 17, 2007 Who Speaks for the Palestinians?
The inability to force responses to UN resolutions and provide a legal context to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a principal reason for continuation of the decades old conflict. The corollary is that only enforcement of UN resolutions and adherence to international law will resolve the conflict.
SHARE Tuesday, November 20, 2007 The Wasting of the West Bank
What seems to be purposeful hindrances to West Bank residents, reduce Palestinians, who have meager demands and normal needs, to total despair and deprivation.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 28, 2007 The Road to Pieces
Forces which manipulate information also guide discussions of the Middle East peace proposals. They control the decisions to ameliorate the situation and have the military muscle to counter any attack on their roles. A logical approach and just solution to a deadly conflict don't favor the policies of Israel and the United States. Their road to peace leads to a world shattered into pieces.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 19, 2007 The United States Administration's Secret Love for Iran
The severe negative qualities of the Iranian regime fit well into U.S. foreign policy arguments. The positive qualities, and there are some, go unheeded by the Bush administration – and for a reason – they contradict the U.S. government policies towards the Islamic nation. The U.S. administration evidently loves the serious defects of the present Iranian regime.