June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg   What drives US foreign policy? Is it primarily the domestic economy, as... » read this article

Action, cut! Pornography, feminisation of the enemy? Confused over what Obama’s view on Guantanamo and the backlog of torture images from Abu Ghraib? Join the club, laments Eric Walberg The centrepiece of United States President Barack Obama’s PR campaign to show the world the US is the nice cop was... » read this article

The only voices expressing the will of Europeans and showing a way out of the current crises are in the madding crowds outside the G20, affirms Eric Walberg  Recall the self-satisfied EU celebrations of recent years – the inauguration of the euro and the famous blue Euro passport, the accession... » read this article

Editor's Note: Eric Walberg's whipping analysis of the mounting storm in Europe casts adumbrations of widespread revolution. The rumblings have turned to open riot against entrenched governments and the entire capitalist system. Walberg's "voice crying in the wilderness" would have sounded to most like a deranged street prophet 5 years... » read this article

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