Perspectives

"...embedded journalists will help shape public opinion in keeping with the foreign policy interests of the Anglo/American powers. Most will therefore ignore the fact that WMD of the most awesome type imaginable are possessed by Israel."

"Israel is building hundreds of miles of fence across the West Bank. The pilgrims who travel to Bethlehem for Christmas this year will find that the city of Christ’s birth is being walled off. Fears are growing that the city may soon become a prison."

"Intelligence services near and far, and the political establishments in Israel, the Arab states and the West are all busily trying to answer the question: is this a new Sharon? Does he really mean to implement what he presented in Herzliya?"

"Since "9/11" China has claimed that it's crackdown on the rights of it's Uygur ethnic minority in Xinjiang was needed to combat organised Uygur terrorist groups and in doing so aid the "War on Terrorism". Some recent events, a slight administrative slip up and a little old fashioned media tampering might just bring the whole charade undone and expose their policies for what they really are."

"We as Americans and people in general no matter where they hail from have been lied to our entire lives."

"Recent court decisions regarding the Administration's detainees, however, may have the most pronounced impact on the policy debate by sharpening the contradiction between Democrats and Republicans during the coming year."

"...Sharon's approach has not changed at all: he did not present a realistic strategy for peace. First he "hijacked" the fence and distorted it from a legitimate means of self-defense into a political tactic for creating a Palestinian bantustan. Now he has hijacked the idea of disengagement and dismantling of settlements- -which was originally intended by the left to rescue Israel demographically but without in any way prejudicing future negotiations concerning East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley--and seeks to reconstitute it as a rationale for fencing in the Palestinians and grabbing the rest of the West Bank. Like previous grand designs of Sharon, this one too will backfire."

"...it is probably no coincidence that negotiations to end Libyan unconventional weapons programs accelerated only after the United States agreed to allow the United Nations to end economic sanctions against Libya. Qaddafi most likely wanted to see some gains from his years of efforts to reconcile with the West before he made any more concessions."