Auteur/autrice : Niki Lambros

This week I had intended to write about the latest outrages perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.

But I find I can only echo Israel’s critics throughout the world, who multiply in number each passing day, who are demanding a change … Lire / Read

We read today, 11 Dec 2008, about UN peacekeeping forces meeting only an hour from the site of yet another massacre in Congo, bloody brutality rampaging without restraint from any quarter. They were reportedly there to evacuate foreign aid workers … Lire / Read

Last June, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Bush-lackey extrordinaire and self-championed advocate of promoting democracy throughout the world, was quoted in headlines following a report to Washington, that “The Mugabe regime cannot be considered legitimate”, but the unquoted part … Lire / Read

So we learn tonight, that Hollywood activist/journalist Mr Sean Penn has confirmed what many suspected, regarding the reason the United States is pressing the Columbia Trade Agreement through a spineless – without Obama – Congress: the United States may have … Lire / Read

Breitebart, via headline shrieking conservative mouthpiece Matt Drudge, has supplied us with yet another heroic reason to prolong the war in Iraq. “[T]he Gulf would be infested by pirates…if the U.S. quits Iraq too soon”, Iraq’s Defense Minister is quoted … Lire / Read

Many times in its history, the United States has acted unethically, prompted by reasons ranging from mere jingoistic nationalism which rallied around a Jesuitical plea for ends justifying means, to justifications from pure greed by which the bottom line becomes … Lire / Read

Yesterday in Washington, President-Elect Obama attempted to discuss with lame-duck President George W. Bush, terms for allowing the US Auto Industry to share in the multibillion dollar federal bailout plan, only to be told that Mr. Bush would only consider … Lire / Read

“It took months for the 58-year-old woman from Kindu to reach Rutshuru hospital for treatment and to tell her story. The Mai Mai shot her husband when he didn’t have any money to hand over. When her children screamed they … Lire / Read

Niki Lambros, MA (Cambridge, UK), is a writer, critic and ex-theologian, recently settled in Canada after almost two decades in Europe, Asia, and the United States. She joined Le Panoptique in January 2008 as Editor of the History Section, and … Lire / Read

On 8 August, 2008, the Sunday New York Times covered the war between Georgia and Russia with many columns and whole pages of photos devoted to revealing the utter destruction Russian bombs had wrought in South Ossetia. Suffering on a … Lire / Read