Analysis

By MWC News

And not just to terrorists
by Lawrence Wilkerson

Akbar Ahmed's The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, should be required reading for American soldiers, citizens and, above all, every member of the Obama administration.

Read more: Drones are deadly and dangerous

By Uri Avnery

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country, a British statesman famously wrote some 400 years ago. That is true, of course, for all diplomats.

The question is whether the diplomat lies only to others, or also to himself.

Read more: No, We Can’t!

By Robert Jensen

[The following is adapted from the new book Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue from City Lights Books.]

“The universe is an undifferentiated whole. About that we can say nothing more.”

This catchy aphorism from political philosopher Bruce Wright may seem nonsensical at first glance, but is worth exploring in the service of deepening our intellectual humility. Facing multiple, cascading ecological crises, we humans need science more than ever—and more than ever we need to understand the limits of science.

Read more: The Universe is an Undifferentiated Whole

By Gideon Polya

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Lying by commission, lying by omission, censorship and self-censorship by Mainstream journalist, editor, politician and academic presstitutes has enabled  the continuing, Zionist-promoted, US War on Muslims that has so far since 1990 been associated with 12 million Muslim deaths from violence or from war-imposed deprivation (Google “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”).

Read more: Mainstream Presstitutes & Syrian Genocide

By Ben Tanosborn

Another May Day gone by… 2013 this time!  And as usual, our beloved local politicians, business leaders, peace-enforcers (cops), corporate journalists, and citizenry busy in making the proverbial buck, made sure that the protests taking place were pictured as smallish and un-American as that foreign-sounding International Workers’ Day. And if any incidents occurred – other than having folks peacefully walking the streets collared with a permit – it was the anarchist thugs that need to be blamed; idiots and ingrates who fail to appreciate our freedoms, or the greatness in America’s capitalist way of life.

Read more: No Mayday on May Day for American Politics