For years I've pointed out that the super rich are supra-national. They have no loyalties to nations, just to their own wealth. As they show, they can destroy economies at will as long as it helps their personal wealth to grow.

As the Tax Justice Network shows, the top 50 banks have (US$) 12.5 trillion in offshore accounts, helping the wealthy ( Read more... )

The Egyptian runoff election, in case nobody noticed, is between the Muslim Brotherhood and someone from the military junta. Remember when Mubarak was ousted? I said that the junta was rushing the election to prevent democracy parties from getting a foothold in order to force a referendum between Islamic extremism and fascism. I said that they'd ( Read more... )

Two articles mentioned the thousands who came out to mourn the passing of Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong Il. Somehow, it's a tad more believable coming from the people who freely chose to respect a man who hasn't been in office for years rather than the folks who lived in a Stalinist regime. Havel helped create democracy in his nation while Kim created ( Read more... )

The PA says it's going to go ahead and ask for UN recognition of a new nation, Palestine. If the UN gives in it will be yet more proof that the UN has lost all relevance. Why? To clearly understand, we need to look at documents from three organizations. Hamas and Fatah as the two largest groups in the PA, representing the vast majority of ( Read more... )

An Italian is killed in Gaza. So, the accused perpetrators, what happened? Killed while Hamas was trying to arrest them. Where's all the shouting from HRW, ISM, AI and the other organizations about Hamas killing a "suspected militant"? Where's the EU hand wringing. A Palestinian terrorist kills a Jew, he's a hero. He kills an Italian, a villian. ( Read more... )

The Copts were Egyptian long before Arabs invaded. I've previously documented abuses by the Arab majority against the Copt minority. Now that the dictatorship was thrown off my "moderate" Muslims, things will get better, right?

Well, maybe not. The AP reports on what happened in an Egyptian state where a Copt was appointed as governor. The AP ( Read more... )

Pirates killed four hostages of Somalia. I don't know international law well enough, but if the laws still allow execution of pirates in international waters, it needs to be done. Sadly, I doubt the US personnel who captured the pirates will be allowed to do that ( Read more... )

Iran's been trying to link the protesters in Egypt to what happened in Iran in 1979. That's false to anyone who knows the difference between the up front position of the Ayatollahs then and the quietness of the Muslim Brotherhood now. It's also been made clear by other news.

Its seems the Iranian government has arrested an opposition leader ( Read more... )