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Yemen: A detailed report of the barbarism of a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and supported by the United States against the people of Yemen

I remember that it was in 2001/02 when I heard of Eric Lerner's theory in The Big Bang Never Happened . I found it logical though I did not have any profound scientific knowledge. After all, "the father" of the Big Bang theory was the Belgian priest and physicist Georges Lemaître. "The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there," Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology, both in Egypt, told  Phys.org . Ali and coauthor Saurya Das at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, have shown in a paper published in  Physics Letters B  that the Big Bang singularity can be resolved by their  new model  in which the universe has no beginning and no end. Read more at:  http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html#jCp

France and Its War on Terror and Intellectuals Read also From Left Bank to Left Behind: Where Have the Great Frenceh Thinkers Gone?

Aziz al-Azmeh, among many critics, has been one of the most prominent figures in assering that 'there are as many Islams as there are situations that sustain it'. مثقفونا "المتنورون" يقولون إن الدين ليس هو منشأ الارهاب بل تمثلاته "الخاطئة" في رؤوس الارهابيين......لكن السؤال هنا: وما هو الدين غير تمثلاته في أذهان معتنقيه؟ الأجدر أن نقول أن منشأ الارهاب ليس هذا التمثل أو ذاك للدين بل النظام الاجتماعي الذي تنشأ في خضمه تلك التمثلات.... ولعل أكثر التمثلات "خطأ" للدين جعله جوهرا متعاليا عن التاريخ. فيظهر هنا كدين إرهابي "بالفطرة" ويظهر هناك كدين "متسامح" "بالجوهر".. أما الدين فهو بالضبط تمثلاته المتغيرة والمتحولة وفق سياقها التاريخي، ولا وجود لجوهر للدين إلا كتمثل خاص ينتجه التطور التاريخي... لكن ماذا نفعل، فمثقفينا يحاربون الارهاب .......بالاسهاب محمد المثلوثي، تونس، 22 نوفمبر 2015

Why Does Cameron Want to Bomb Syria? Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class

Is Saudi Arabia more Extreme than 'Islamic State'? My comment I find this hypocritical. It excludes the extremism of the Western regimes. When an organization kills or beheads people or throws gays to their deaths, etc, they are called extremists and barbaric, but when the Western regimes invade and occupy countries, kill half a million children through sanctions, kill civilians by bombing weddings and shelters, etc, impose economic policies on countries, support or turn a blind eye on Israel's state's and settlers' barbarism, being part of the counter-revolution that has aborted the Arab uprising, rendition, torture, blackmailing, arm-twisting, corporate involvement in fuelling wars in Africa, for example, etc... they are not called barbaric and extremists because they kill "democratically" using their smart bombs, F16s, white phosperous... and give people "freedom". The small barbarism, if you trace it, is the bastard child of the big barb

Capitalist "democracy" The 20 people on top of the Forbes 400 list – “a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet” according to the report’s authors – own more wealth than the bottom half of the American population, which is about 152 million people. That’s about 57m households, or a population of 40 US states.  FTSE 100 chief executives (CEO) earn on average 183 times more than a full-time UK worker, research suggests .

The Changing Nature of the Algerian Political System and the Illusion of a Civilian Regime A Product of Tunisia's 1960s Resistance Continues to Protest The General Who Tortured Algerians Dies

Self-exoneration via Self-flagellation: The Structure of Neoliberal Guilt

"The Department of Defense and others have noted that between 2006 and 2010,  climate-change-fueled droughts  killed off 70 percent of Syrian farmers’ livestock, driving hundreds of thousands of economic refugees into crowded cities. Faced with scarce resources, the many protesting food shortages were polarized against President Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarianism and pushed toward religious extremists who were, as Juan Cole  put it , “everything the state was not” — distributing water, food and oil that Assad had failed to." The War on Climate Change Anthropocene or Capitalocene

"That's a rubbish decision for which John McDonnell bears a considerable responsibility. The unity of the cabinet (which doesn't exist) has been placed higher than maximising our ability to prevent a war. That is an abdication of conscience. This is one reason why I'm not in the Labour Party."   Via  John Rees

The Magical Thinking about ISIS The Wrong Kind of Secularism

 “Capitalism and the ‘war on terror’ not only help to sustain one another but they have this in common: they worship success but are nourished by failure.” (David Keen,  Endless War ?, 2006)

Chomsky and His Critics

"Our way of life" RAF to Look for Any Unbombed Bits of Syria DAVID Cameron has called on Britain to flatten the last remaining bumpy bits of Syria. Making his case for British airstrikes against ISIS, the prime minister told the House of Commons there was an outside lavatory 15 miles from Aleppo that still has its roof attached. He added: “It stands there, being a toilet, brazenly defying our values. If not now, when?” The prime minster then listed seven other small buildings across Syria that remain structurally sound, including a newsagent, a car wash and a fruit kiosk that could be sheltering up 20,000 ISIS maniacs. He added: “We have learned the lessons of Iraq. Too many buildings were left standing in Iraq. And it was in those buildings that ISIS was formed. “We will only bring peace to the Middle East when all the buildings have been destroyed and everyone has to stand around in the street.” Meanwhile, Cameron has not ruled out sending troops to

The Threat is Already Inside And nine other truths about terrorism that nobody wants to hear Good arguments, and facts, by a defender of the system Note: Foreign Policy calls Hamas and Hizbullah "terrorist organizations".

My comment on Paul Rogers's recent article "Its ambitious aim was to cause the overthrow of the 'near enemy' regimes in the Middle East and southwest Asia, replacing them with 'proper' Islamist regimes; to see Zionism destroyed..." Do you have figures and evidence of any attacks on Israel's interests? Are they of any significance? More importantly, you too either has fallen in a trap or that is just your way of working withing the frame work of defending the system, trying to make it better. You are speaking about "the same mistakes being made." They are not mistakes and only an apologist for the state terrorism of the Western regimes would call them mistakes. Occupations, invasions, support of dictators in the Middle East and outside the Middle East, imposed economic policies, support of Israel's state terrorism, support of the so-called Islamist liberals as long as they maintain the status quo of "the free market" and depe

An e-book and interview The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine  (e-book) My interview with Ilan Pappe Syriza's U-turn on Israel is Now Complete

I think this incident is full of metaphor, allegory, images, parabols, etc when put into the context of occupation, ethnic cleansing, rape, plunder, and all other barbaric acts of a state. Tel Aviv, Israel: "a sex worker, who worked 12-hour shifts and slept with up to 30 men a day, hanged herself. Three hours after her body was found, the brothel went back to work."  Source: Haaretz.com, 22 August 2015.

Isis: In a borderless world, the days when we could fight foreign wars and be safe at home may  be long gone Robert Fisk, author of The Great War for Civilization . Yes, It Is Islamic Extremism - But Why? Graham E. Fuller is a former vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, and author of numerous books on the Middle East and Islamic movements. His first novel, “Breaking Faith: A Novel of Espionage and an American’s Crisis of Conscience in Pakistan,” will be out in March 2015.