Analysis

By MWC News

by Joseph Massad

Jewish opponents of Zionism understood the movement since its early age as one that shared the precepts of anti-Semitism in its diagnosis of what gentile Europeans called the "Jewish Question". What galled anti-Zionist Jews the most, however, was that Zionism also shared the "solution" to the Jewish Question that anti-Semites had always advocated, namely the expulsion of Jews from Europe.

Read more: The last of the Semites

By K.Gajendra Singh

“Those who control the present control the past”*

In 1969 when I was posted to Ankara , the word Kurd was almost a taboo in Turkey .Kurds were called mountainTurks. But the truth  was brought home to me very vividly a few months after my arrival when  after  a long tour of the Black Sea coast including Samsun, Trabzon and cutting via Erzurum ( cold and gloomy) and Bingol , I and family  drove into Diyarbakir, with its black rock walls, the largest Kurdish city (although some people claim that Istanbul, a mega polis of 12 million, might have surpassed it in the number of Kurds). After installing my family in the hotel I came out to look for a restaurant. Lo! I was surrounded by five six young boys singing Kurdish songs and repeating ‘Kurdum, Kurdum‘ (I am a Kurd, in Turkish.)

Read more: Kurdish Clouds Over Darkening West Asia Horizon

By MWC News

by Lisa Hajjar

As President Barack Obama geared up for the 2012 campaign, he and his administration were eager to capitalize on their most bipartisan “victory” -- the targeted killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. With the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death approaching, top officials took to podiums to deliver remarks that, while differing in some particulars, were consistent in their message: The targeted killing policy is legal, it is necessary to keep Americans safe, it is effective in eliminating terrorist threats, and it is undertaken with great care to minimize civilian casualties.

Read more: Anatomy of the US Targeted Killing Policy

By Stephen Lendman

US democracy is illusory. America never was beautiful. It's not the land of the free and home of the brave. It wasn't created that way. More than ever, it's not now.

Freedom is a four-letter word. It's fast disappearing. It's an endangered species. Wealth, power and privilege alone matter. America's war on terror priorities advance them.

Read more: Eroding Freedom in America

By Uri Avnery

“The two-state solution is dead!” This mantra has been repeated so often lately, by so many authoritative commentators, that it must be true.

Well, it ain‘t.

Read more: The Donkey of the Messiah