January 2012

• The long, strange road to the Iowa caucuses detailed • Top three candidates separated by small percentage By Victor Thorn With more plot twists than a daytime soap opera, the long, strange road leading […]

• The court decision has been hailed as a major victory for freedom of speech. By Dave Gahary The latest legal assault on the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights by United States-based pro-Israel […]

Obama and Geithner have declared that the U.S. should not be bailing out Europe. Yet this is exactly what is happening. By Peter Papaherakles In an article published by The Wall Street Journal on Wed. […]

• The Taliban was created by America, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in the late ’70s and early ’80s to fight the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. By the Staff at AFP On the heels of the […]

• The U.S. is interested in Yemen solely for its strategic location. Its oil reserves are due to run out in approximately five years. By Richard Walker — While much of the media focus has […]

Lurking in the shadows are the two Siamese twin gorillas that have been behind all the wars and misery inflicted upon the Afghans since at least the 1970s—Big Oil and the ubiquitous Israelis. By Ralph […]

“You are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.” By Keith Johnson Since Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of communities across the nation have taken advantage of more […]

Sherlock Holmes movie shows reality of power politics By Mark Anderson The latest Sherlock Holmes movie, A Game of Shadows, brings the viewer on a daring expedition against the tactics and mechanics of conspiratorial design. […]

AFP PODCAST Canadian author Greg Felton of The Host & The Parasite fame, discusses his new book, Exploding Middle East Myths: 15 years of Fighting Zionist Propaganda. Felton has assembled a myth-smashing collection of essays […]