PRAGOTI

The David Headly affair has exposed the duplicity of the US government in fighting terrorism.

The murders along the Wall of Shame on the U.S border with Mexico; the compliant silence in face of Israel’s slaughter of children, women and the elderly in Gaza; the blockade of Cuba; the protection given to terrorists like Posada Carriles; the policy that protects those who torture, murder and commit terrible crimes from being tried or punished, constitute overwhelming evidence that the empire is the worst example in terms of human rights. The seeds of Auschwitz are latent,writes Inés Míriam Alemán.

For those who believe that one can effectively fight and defeat the Taliban by aligning with this destructive troika live in a fool's paradise,writes Ammar Ali Jan.

''While as usual ignored as irrelevant to policy formation, U.S. public opinion is close to that of serious analysts and also to world opinion. Large majorities oppose threats against Iran, thus rejecting the Bush-Obama position that the U.S. must be an outlaw state, violating the UN Charter, which bars the threat of force. The public also joins the majority of the world's states in endorsing Iran's right, as a signer of the NPT, to enrich uranium for nuclear energy (the position endorsed also by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Kissinger and others when Iran was ruled by the tyrant imposed by U.S.-UK subversion). Most important, the public favors establishment of a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East, which would mitigate and perhaps eliminate this highly threatening issue. Such observations as these suggest an interesting thought experiment. What would be the content of the "Obama brand" if the public were to become "participants” rather than mere "spectators in action"? It is an experiment well worth undertaking, and there is good reason to suppose that the results might point the way to a saner and more decent world'' - Argues Veteran Political Commentator Noam Chomsky in the article published in Z magazine