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Inviting Armageddon

Try as I may to keep my self imposed vow of silence on Syria the time has come for me to speak out. Armageddon awaits.

(LONDON) - My silence was born from the deep belief that if you have nothing constructive to say regarding any on-going conflict then keeping your own counsel is best.

What could you or I, as Arabs and Moslems and children of Greater Syria, say when you see that everything that you have been brought up to believe in has been destroyed?

A Study in Compassionate Socialism... Three For The See-saw

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Ernest, the rich are much different from us. Ernest Hemingway: Yes, I know. They have more money.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Some time ago, Al Gore's television network, Current TV, ran an hour- long feature billed as a hard-hitting bit of investigative journalism. It wasn't.

It was amateurish, poorly paced with incompetent interviews, a lack of continuity and excess repetition.

Conquerors from The Congo to The Jordan

The formula used by Leopold and the Zionists is a well-worn conquerors’ formula of deceit, deception, destruction and seizure.

(CHICAGO) - In the late 19th century, Henry Morton Stanley (of Stanley and Livingston fame), was the “king’s man”— more accurately, a hired colonist conqueror—working for Belgium’s King Leopold II.

Stanley’s assignment: Seize and conquer the vast and unexplored territory surrounding Africa’s Congo River...

MY LAST POST: Final Thoughts on Zionism`s Success and Arab Failure

A review of a lifetime dedicated toward raising awareness of the suffering of Palestinians.

(LONDON) - I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine.

More than three decades ago when I made my commitment to this war effort, in the full knowledge that it would make me persona non grata in the eyes of the mainstream...

Can True Blue Democrats Do What Other Progressives Won`t?

"The self-labeled Progressive Movement that has arisen over the past decade is primarily one big propaganda campaign" - John Stauber

(COPENHAGEN) - Sympathetic critics of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) contend that its passionate energy has faded due to massive federal, state and local government spying and police brutality.

They also cite a lack of political direction that could inspire millions of the 99% to join in, thus enabling it to be alive and kicking today.

Intellectuals and Race: Getting it Wrong from Eugenics to `Social Justice`

Intellectuals and Race" can help bring us back to a serious examination of a question which has not received the empirical examination it deserves.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Intellectual theories, which have largely bypassed complex reality, have had a dramatic influence upon the way Americans view race---and racial differences.

In an important new book, "Intellectuals And Race", tests the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed among intellectuals and which have led to a variety of crusades...

Sometimes, A Great Town

Human nature cannot be studied in cities except at a disadvantage--a village is the place. There you can know your man inside and out--in a city you but know his crust; and his crust is usually a lie. - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Sleepy Slater had a store-front shop on Main Street, with a fortunate sort of bay window, at which he sat crouched over his shoemaker's workbench.

Through the bay window, he commanded a view of the far reaches of our town's principal thoroughfare, and could note the approach of any customer...

Greatest Purveyor of Violence

The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who do not go to war, promise a mirage to those who do.
--Chris Hedges

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech in New Yorkh on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered.

He called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

The "shot heard 'round the world" is a phrase that has come to represent several historical incidents that mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.

(BOSTON) - Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march..." By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch

Reflections on Pearl Harbor and World War II

Of our eight battleships at Pearl Harbor, four were sunk and the others were badly damaged.

(WASHINGTON DC) - What I learned history in school – and as it usually is taught even today – is that the surprise attack on our forces in Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese Navy was devastating.

The Naval base at Pearl Harbor and the Army Air Corps base at Hickam Field were attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers.