From birth, Israel was a regional menace until America became its benefactor in the late 1960s. Now it's a global one, powerful with a large standing army and the latest weapons and technology, nuclear armed and ready to use them. It's belligerent on the slightest pretext or none at all, and a threat to world peace and security because US administrations since Lyndon Johnson supported a nation of 5.6 million Jews in an area the size of New Jersey, partnering in its worst crimes and abuses.

Many factors contribute to the incarceration today of more blacks than whites even though blacks make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Post-9/11, Dick Cheney warned of wars that won't end in our lifetime. Former CIA Director James Woolsey said America "is engaged in World War IV, and it could continue for years....This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us." GHW Bush called it a "New World Order" in his September 11, 1990 address to a joint session of Congress as he prepared the public for Operation Desert Storm.

by Jacob G. Hornberger

Yesterday’s New York Times had an interesting news story about a young Pakistani man named Umar Khundi, who was recently killed in a shootout with police. He had been attending medical school but he ended up becoming a militant who participated in terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

By Ivan Eland

The United States military is attempting to transfer its recipe for “success” in the conflict in Iraq to the war in Afghanistan. In Iraq, after many years of stumbling to relearn the lessons of counterinsurgency warfare gleaned from many years of staggering in Vietnam, the United States happened upon a technique that attenuated the Sunni insurgency. That gambit was dividing the Sunni opposition by paying former Saddamists to fight the recalcitrant al-Qaeda.

Global Ecosystemic Meltdown! Sounds scary, doesn’t it? That is the latest term for global warming coined by Daphne Wysham, a major climate alarmist at the Institute for Policy Studies. In a recent podcast interview with OpEdNews.com’s Rob Kall titled "DAPHNE WYSHAM climate change- how to respond to global warming deniers, when they point to snow 02 17 2010" the two shamelessly discussed how to propagandize the world about the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) hoax.

The US supreme court has refused to rule on whether judges have the power to order the government to release Guantanamo prisoners to live in the US, when no other country will take them.

The release of a key review of US policy on nuclear weapons has again been delayed as Barack Obama, the US president, pushes officials to back "dramatic reductions" in his country's arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Chile has deployed thousands of troops and police to restore order in the city of Concepcion after looters ransacked several shops for food.

The leader of a Chinese separatist movement, believed to have links with al-Qaeda, has been killed in a US missile strike, Pakistani and Taliban officials have said.

North Korea says it will strengthen its nuclear programme if the US ignores "realistic proposals and continues to stick to unrealistic manoeuvres".

Afghanistan has announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks.

A leading British Islamic scholar has issued a fatwa condemning "terrorists" as the enemies of Islam, in a bid to deter young Muslims from extremism.

Russia has said it is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme as the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog says he cannot verify that all of Tehran's atomic activities are peaceful.

An Irish town council has removed a page in its guestbook signed by the Israeli ambassador to Ireland in protest at Israel's diplomatic record.

India and Saudi Arabia have signed an extradition treaty following talks on improving ties between the two during the Indian prime minister's visit to Riyadh.

Iranian authorities have banned a reformist daily newspaper and a moderate weekly magazine run by the family of Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader, Iran's news agency says.

US insurance giant American International Group Inc (AIG) has announced the sale of its Asian arm to British insurer Prudential PLC, in another step to restructure its business.

Japan's unemployment rate fell to 4.9 per cent in January, improving by 0.3 percentage points from the previous month, official government data has shown.