The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region

The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region

I am hunched over, almost on my hands and knees, nearly 250 feet below ground. Behind me is close to a mile of tunnel, hewn through solid rock. In front of me is a steel door set into a concrete barricade. Through its tiny window I can see another barricade and steel door, maybe another…

Media Corruption – Leading Journalists Expose Major Corruption in Mass Media

Media Corruption – Leading Journalists Expose Major Corruption in Mass Media

The riveting excerpts below from the revealing accounts of award-winning journalists in the highly acclaimed book Into the Buzzsaw reveal major media corruption. These courageous writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major news stories. Some were even fired or laid off. They have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer….

Review: “Against Our Better Judgment” The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel, by Alison Weir

Review: “Against Our Better Judgment” The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel, by Alison Weir

Alison Weir’s relatively short book covers the history of Zionism in the United States from the last decades of the 19th century until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. (She is working on a second volume that will carry this history to the present.) Its brevity does not mean, however, that it…

“The Great Class War 1914-1918”, There Is Nothing Great about War…

“The Great Class War 1914-1918”, There Is Nothing Great about War…

Book Review: The Great Class War 1914-1918 – Jacques R. Pauwels In all countries socialists renounced the class struggle and proceeded instead to go to war for their fatherland and their people. Jacques R. Pauwels, The Great Class War 1914-1918, p. 69 War is anathema. I hate war and I am sure the majority of…

There is no other place in the world where Americans bear so much responsibility for what happens –Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich’s new book, The Way to the Spring, Life and Death in Palestine (Penguin Press 2016), is a tough read. Tough because of what it evokes in any civilized reader: anger and despair — in equal doses. And particularly tough for an American Jewish reader because it does not let you stop thinking or…