Samir's Amin has come out with a defence of French intervention in Mali, which has surprised many of his admirers and friends.

I am one of those who out of principle condemn all military interventions by Western powers in the countries of the South, these interventions being by nature subject to the requirements of the deployment of control of the planet by the capital of the monopolies that dominate the system.

Benghazi attack on the US Consulate on September 11, 2012 "offers a relatively rare window into the on the ground actions of the US government’s clandestine operations.

Our enemies did not cross our borders

They crept through our weakness like ants.

-- Nizar Qabbani, “Footnotes to the Book of Setback”

(‘ala Daftar al-Naksah), 1967.

III. Western Plans.

Our enemies did not cross our borders

They crept through our weakness like ants.

-- Nizar Qabbani, “Footnotes to the Book of Setback”

(Hawamesh ‘ala Daftar al-Naksah), 1967.

II. Neighbors.

Regime change in Syria, always on the agenda of imperialist and divisive forces in West Asia, is now accelerating.

Death has escaped from Syria.

Yet again, Western governments and media are shocked. A group of fanatic Salafi and Ikhwan types attacked the US embassy in Cairo and the US consulate in Benghazi, and the US ambassador was killed.

At the sidelines of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Tehran, Iran, the governments of Afghanistan, India and Iran will hold a small conclave.

Algeria is coming under significant foreign pressure as it is pushed toward military intervention in North Mali in an attempt to eliminate religious movements seeking to turn the area into an Islamic Salafi emirate. These movements have begun imposing their version of Islamic Sharia rules against “the disobedient" and destroying all religious shrines they deem as blasphemous to the one God.