Russian President Vladimir Putin can take credit for standing up to the G8 warmongers on Syria. Thanks to the feisty Russian leader’s political courage, an all-out war in Syria may have been averted - at least for now.
Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:33PM
By Finian Cunningham
Iran’s 11th presidential election since the Islamic Revolution 34 years ago produced a stunning victory. With nearly 73 percent of the electorate turning out last Friday to vote for six presidential candidates perhaps the real winner to emerge was Iran - its people and its democratic system.
Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:13AM
By Finian Cunningham
Ethiopia’s parliament this week voted to push ahead with the country’s controversial Blue Nile hydroelectric dam project. The move is bound to raise the political stakes even higher following threats earlier this week by Egypt that it would go to war over Ethiopia’s plan to build a $4.7-billion dam on the great river.
Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:55PM
By Finian Cunningham
The military victory for Syria’s government forces in the strategic central town of Qusayr last week was a watershed event for several reasons. But of the crucial turning points heralded by this event, one is inimitably clear - the Western powers, the would-be emperors of Syria, stand naked in their failed criminal conspiracy to destroy that country.
Sat Jun 8, 2013 8:43AM
By Finian Cunningham
Whenever French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius finally retires from his dubious diplomatic career, he might consider taking up writing - that is, writing pulp fiction novels of outlandish tales. He already has a ready-made suitable penname: Laurent Fabulous.
Tue Jun 4, 2013 2:6PM
By Finian Cunningham
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lives in a world of foreign intrigue and mischief making. Now his penchant for dark forces seems to be rebounding on his government - with a vengeance.
Thu May 30, 2013 3:44PM
By Finian Cunningham
How to describe the actions of Britain and France towards Syria and by extension, the wider Middle East and Africa regions?
Sun May 26, 2013 8:12AM
By Finian Cunningham
Listening to Western “governments” - otherwise known as criminal regimes led by war criminals - pontificating and pronouncing on Syria is like riding a rollercoaster of hilarity, absurdity and downright lies.
Thu May 23, 2013 3:27PM
By Finian Cunningham
“The people who did this are trying to divide us. They should know that something like this will only bring us together and make us stronger.”
Tue May 21, 2013 1:42PM
By Finian Cunningham
You could hardly make this up: two countries sitting side-by-side, sharing the same border and sharing the same kind of horrific violence against their civilian populations.
Sat May 18, 2013 8:34AM
By Finian Cunningham
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan went to Washington this week with a shopping list for more direct American intervention in the NATO regime-change operation in Syria.
Wed May 15, 2013 2:44PM
By Finian Cunningham
The latest shocking video to emerge from Syria - showing a militant commander carving out the internal organs of a dead regime soldier and proceeding to eat them in front of the camera - has prompted a telling reaction from the Western corporate-controlled news media.
Sat May 11, 2013 3:45PM
By Finian Cunningham
The annual VE Day - victory in Europe - celebrations held this month see, as usual, Western governments indulging in self-glory and moral superiority for their supposed defeat of German fascism. However, the official history books do not tell of the secret pact that Western governments and Washington in particular formed with the remnants of the Nazi war machine.
Wed May 8, 2013 2:58PM
By Finian Cunningham
It’s an anthem that is usually sung with chest-thumping pride and misty eyes by British imperialists. “Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves”. This jingoistic celebration of Britain’s former global conquest may yet degenerate into “Rue Britannia, Britannia rues the waves”.
Thu May 2, 2013 2:54PM
By Finian Cunningham
A failed coup in the North African country of Chad this week is just another repercussion from the wave of Western state-sponsored violence and destabilization, stretching from Central Asia, through the Middle East and across Africa.
Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:17AM
By Finian Cunningham
You have to admit it. The Americans and British do make a formidable double-act - of deception and criminality. Where one party has the firepower, the other has the liar-power.
Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:52AM
Finian Cunningham
Half a century ago this month Martin Luther King wrote his famous prison protest against racial injustice, entitled ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’. An excerpt reads: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality... Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:36PM
By Finian Cunningham
American secretary of offence Chuck Hagel kicked off his Middle East tour this week with outrageous warmongering threats towards Iran, while at the same time giving a license for more state terrorism from Washington’s Israeli rogue regime.
Sat Apr 20, 2013 12:1PM
By Finian Cunningham
First Iran, now it’s North Korea. The US global minstrel show of pseudo-handshakes and offers of talks just keeps on rolling, despite the laughable see-through fraudulence.
Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:21AM
By Finian Cunningham
The funeral for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher takes place today in London with full military honors. Not since Sir Winston Churchill, the famous Second World War leader, has the British state bestowed such an honor on a deceased prime minister.
Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:31AM
By Finian Cunningham
The human suffering in Syria, which has escalated from crisis to disaster over the past two years, is the nefarious work of Western governments and their regional allies.
Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:12PM
Finian Cunningham
The United States of America has become a byword for war. No other nation state has started as many wars or conflicts in modern times than the USA - the United States of Armageddon.
Tue Apr 9, 2013 6:33PM
By Finian Cunningham
Hours after the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the history books are being re-written and the beatification of the Iron Lady is well underway.
Mon Apr 1, 2013 6:13AM
By Finian Cunningham
The best way to understand the seemingly reckless, recurring threat of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is this: the East Asian region is being run like a Mafia protection racket. And the criminal Mafia is the US.
Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:27AM
By Finian Cunningham
They are essentially dead men who just happen to breathe. That is the grim assessment of the legal representative for the inmates in the American concentration camp, otherwise known as Guantanamo Bay.
Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:27PM
By Finian Cunningham
Saudi claims of “busting a spy ring” involving Iranian and Lebanese nationals this week smell of yet more dirty tricks by the creaky House of Saud.
Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:38PM
By Finian Cunningham
Western so-called news media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror flick about flesh-eating zombies.
Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:57AM
By Finian Cunningham
The US has become a psychotic superpower, high on paranoia induced by its own poisonous propaganda. This unstable, lawless rogue state, armed to the teeth and deluded by its own self-righteousness, poses the greatest risk to world security.
Sat Mar 9, 2013 7:23PM
By Finian Cunningham
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea stands out. But it is not because the secretive Stalinist regime is a nuclear pariah threatening global security, as the Western corporate media would have us believe.
Tue Mar 5, 2013 7:26PM
By Finian Cunningham
Is Russia sleepwalking when it comes to defending allies Syria and Iran and ultimately its own vital long-term interests?
Sun Mar 3, 2013 7:35PM
Finian Cunningham
The Bahraini regime last week issued a new law that shows just how wobbly-scared it is of its own people. Anyone found in possession of a false face mask is liable to be jailed.
Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:31AM
By Finian Cunningham
France’s claim of combating terrorism in Mali does not add up. Re-conquest of this former French colony and control of rich natural resources in West Africa are some of the more plausible reasons for this criminal offensive that began on 11 January.
Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:43AM
By Finian Cunningham
Moscow should be careful not to buy into recent cosmetic efforts by the West to revamp its Persian Gulf client monarchy - and to sell the Bahraini people short for the sake of saving its ally in Syria.
Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:28PM
By Finian Cunningham
Is the Catholic Church ready for a black pope? That is the question many inside and outside the world’s largest Christian organization are asking following the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI this week.
Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:54AM
By Finian Cunningham
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei described recent American offers of bilateral talks with Iran as tantamount to the US holding negotiations with a gun to the head.
Thu Feb 7, 2013 7:31PM
By Finian Cunningham
Only days after American Vice President Joe Biden made a very public and tantalizing offer of bilateral talks between the US and Iran, there then follows another round of punitive trade sanctions imposed by Washington on Iran’s vital oil industry.
Fri Feb 1, 2013 3:40PM
By Finian Cunningham
In her farewell speech, outgoing US secretary of state Hillary Clinton accused Russia and Iran of “stepping up” military support for Syria and thereby adding fuel to possible regional conflict.
Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:32PM
By Finian Cunningham
This week sees the anniversary of one of the worst massacres in modern Irish history, when British paratroopers murdered 14 unarmed civilians in cold blood.
Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:40PM
By Finian Cunningham
Britain’s Afghan-killing Prince Harry, the Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic and Northern Ireland are all in the news recently for seemingly disparate reasons. But there is a unifying link - British imperialist thievery, violence and deception.
Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:24AM
By Finian Cunningham
France’s intervention in Mali is simply this: a neo-imperialist power grab dressed up in “war on terror” rhetoric.
Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:31PM
By Finian Cunningham
Is the United States preparing to let the French hang out to dry in their dramatic military intervention in Mali? In the cynical game of big power rivalry, a setback for the old colonial patron in West Africa would bring handsome gains for the US in extending its growing sphere of influence in this strategic and vital resource-rich region.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:26PM
By Finian Cunningham
With France’s ignominious track record for disastrous military adventures on the African continent - the 1956 Suez Crisis comes most to mind - one would think that the former colonial power would have learned some prudence by now.
Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:24PM
By Finian Cunningham
The speed and extent with which French warplanes have been deployed over the weekend in the West African country, Mali, point to a well-honed plan for intervention by the former colonial power.
Sun Jan 6, 2013 3:22PM
By Finian Cunningham
Saudi Arabia’s latest budget announcement - the biggest in the kingdom’s 80-year history - had the world’s financial press swooning last week. It came as an almost delirious distraction from the relentless austerity news coming out of the United States and Europe.
Wed Jan 2, 2013 7:38PM
By Finian Cunningham
Recent legal moves by the governments of Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Philippines to protect their nationals working in the Persian Gulf Arab states point to this harrowing fact: the Arab slave trade in foreign workers is alive and well.
Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:40AM
By Finian Cunningham
The UN Security Council approval this week of a French-led resolution for military intervention in Africa’s vast Sahel region signaled the Western imperialist powers’ laying down a new incendiary marker.
Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:33PM
By Finian Cunningham
Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador the United Nations, was asked on nationwide television in 1996 if the death of half a million Iraqi children from US war and sanctions on that country was a price worth paying. Albright replied: “This is a very hard choice, but the price - we think is worth it.”
Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:35PM
Finian Cunningham
This story connects far-flung places. Kenya, Malaya, Northern Ireland and now Syria. The one over-arching theme is British counter-insurgency strategy, or more plainly, the use of state terrorism by British forces to achieve political objectives.
Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:18PM
Finian Cunningham
Barack Obama, America’s Conjurer-in-Chief, is trying to entertain the world with a new smoke-and-mirrors trick, with the announcement that his government is recognizing the Syrian National Coalition as “the sole representative of the Syrian people”.
Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:42AM
By Finian Cunningham
One ugly fact of life is emerging above all else in modern Britain: Permanent economic austerity at home now bestrides permanent war abroad.
