The Power Of A Vote: Elections Have Consequences

A couple of weeks ago, I was with a group of students at an Obama rally. The lead speaker was Walter Mondale, now 84, who was vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost the 1984 presidential election to Ronald Reagan. While I was old enough to remember voting for Mondale for president, almost everyone else […]

John Nordin
By John Nordin
Former Vice President Walter Mondale addresses a crowded Minneapolis, Minn. Convention Center at a rally for Democratic Senatorial candidate Al Franken, Oct. 30, 2008. (Photo by Shawn T. Perry)

A couple of weeks ago, I was with a group of students at an Obama rally. The lead speaker was Walter Mondale, now 84, who was vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost the 1984 presidential election to Ronald Reagan. While I was old enough to remember voting for Mondale for president, almost everyone else in the room was young enough that they

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Government-Owned Corn Destroyed In One Of Africa’s Poorest Countries

In a government warehouse in the centre of one of Zambia’s farming districts, 300 miles from the capital, thousands of bags of corn are stacked up high. All are rotten. All are set to be destroyed. This destruction of food is a calamity for a country where the UN estimates 64% of its people are still incapable […]

Anthony Mukwita
By Anthony Mukwita
corn

In a government warehouse in the centre of one of Zambia’s farming districts, 300 miles from the capital, thousands of bags of corn are stacked up high. All are rotten. All are set to be destroyed. This destruction of food is a calamity for a country where the UN estimates 64% of its people are still incapable of placing two meals on the table.

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Canada-Iran Tensions: Why Israel Is So Happy

In a frantic and unexpectedly hysterical decision made on September 7, the Canadian government suspended all its diplomatic ties with Iran, closed its embassy in Tehran and ordered the Iranian diplomats to leave the Canadian soil in 5 days. The Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird made an unbelievably offensive statement, calling Iran “the most significant […]

Kourosh Ziabari
By Kourosh Ziabari
RCMP officers patrol outside the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, Friday Sept. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)

In a frantic and unexpectedly hysterical decision made on September 7, the Canadian government suspended all its diplomatic ties with Iran, closed its embassy in Tehran and ordered the Iranian diplomats to leave the Canadian soil in 5 days. The Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird made an unbelievably offensive statement, calling Iran “the most

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US Politicians Shamelessly Sucking Up To Israel

(CHICAGO) — America’s special relationship with Israel too often reflects the tail wagging the dog. Increasingly, the Jewish state is more strategic liability than asset. The Israeli Lobby has a virtual stranglehold on U.S. foreign policy. Blunt pressure is applied to get Washington to accede to interests harming its own. Fear prevents most House and […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, July 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

(CHICAGO) -- America's special relationship with Israel too often reflects the tail wagging the dog. Increasingly, the Jewish state is more strategic liability than asset. The Israeli Lobby has a virtual stranglehold on U.S. foreign policy. Blunt pressure is applied to get Washington to accede to interests harming its own. Fear prevents most

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Permission To Engage: WikiLeaks Collateral Murder Footage Examined

On July 12 2007 a US apache helicopter shot several Iraqi civilians in an incident that shocked the world when footage of the event was published by whistleblower website, Wikileaks. The footage, taken from the helicopter, shows people fleeing for the safety of buildings being pursued, then the buildings they run to blown up. The […]

Alex Morris
By Alex Morris
A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up a placard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, London, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

On July 12 2007 a US apache helicopter shot several Iraqi civilians in an incident that shocked the world when footage of the event was published by whistleblower website, Wikileaks. The footage, taken from the helicopter, shows people fleeing for the safety of buildings being pursued, then the buildings they run to blown up. The attack resulted

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For Or Against The European Union? It Is Not That Simple …

(BRUSSELS) — It used to be simple. On the one hand were the people decidedly in favor of a union of European states: They remembered the suffering of the two World Wars, mainly fought in Europe, and were keenly aware of what the founding fathers of the Economic Community had been longing for: never again […]

Magda Fahsi
By Magda Fahsi
Members of the European Parliament vote on a EU Services Directive bill at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

(BRUSSELS) — It used to be simple. On the one hand were the people decidedly in favor of a union of European states: They remembered the suffering of the two World Wars, mainly fought in Europe, and were keenly aware of what the founding fathers of the Economic Community had been longing for: never again would such dreadful conflicts tear Europe

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