(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 2, 2013
In Defence of the Syrian Arab Army Secular Syria could not have survived without its national army and, after two years of sectarian attacks, it is highly significant that it has not fractured on sectarian lines. In face of the foreign-backed enemy the Syrian Arab Army is doing precisely what a national army is meant to do.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 13, 2013
Syria: how the violence began, in Daraa Contrary to many reports, the armed rebellion in Syria did not grow from peaceful protests. Armed attacks on police and civilians in Daraa took place during the political reform marches in Daraa, in March 2011.

(6 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 6, 2013
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela and the Corporate Media The legacy of Hugo Chavez and how and why the corporate media is desperate to distort it.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 25, 2012
Al Jazeera's attacks on Syria: some background How Al Jazeera came to be in the forefront of the attacks on Syria

SHARE        Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Syria's "false flag' terrorism, Houla and the United Nations The deep bias of the United Nations is worsening the Syrian conflict, by encouraging 'false flag terrorism'.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 23, 2012
Imperialism and "dictators' The 'new dictatorships' targeted by the empire are the independent, or semi-independent, post-colonial states, which have simply managed to achieve and maintain some political will outside imperial grand strategy.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 1, 2012
The Libyan Tragedy: lessons for the western left After Afghanistan and Iraq the left in imperial cultures should have known better than to support NATO's 'humanitarian intervention' in Libya.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Orientalism and Cuba Looks at the 'orientalism' involved in most outside interpretations of Cuba

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 12, 2010
Human Rights Watch and Cuba We have nothing to learn about Cuba -" whether on its weaknesses or strengths -" from Human Rights Watch, an organisation which represents the US corporate and foreign policy elite.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 21, 2010
US freedoms and Cuba US travelers are probably unaware that Washington has virtually abandoned the policing of individual travel to Cuba.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Cuban at the UN's human rights council Cuba's human rights record was examined by the UN's Human Rights Council, and the country came out looking pretty good.

SHARE        Friday, April 17, 2009
The crisis and the dollar The US crisis will soon be aggravated by regional moves away from the dollar.

SHARE        Monday, March 17, 2008
RSF and Cuba: the 'embedded watchdog' loses its bite Observations on the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) campaign against Cuba

SHARE        Thursday, October 4, 2007
Timor Leste: Challenges for the Xanana Alliance Analysis of problems facing the new government in Timor Leste

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 15, 2007
Why Cuba is a democracy and the US is not A comparison of democracy in Cuba and the USA

SHARE        Thursday, December 14, 2006
The Collapse of Australia's Pacific Intervention Australian imperial pretensions

SHARE        Sunday, December 10, 2006
East Timor after Alkatiri: nation or protectorate? review of crisis in East Timor