“The serial imperial aggressions launched and menaced by the neoconservative Republican Bush Junior administration and the neoliberal Democratic Obama administration are now threatening to set off World War III.” Historically this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening …
He admitted it. He’s not finished. He has lots more killing and destruction to do. He “will not hesitate to do what is necessary to defend our people,” he said. In other words, he’ll ignore memorandum of understanding ceasefire terms, maintain Gaza’s siege, manufacture pretexts to eliminate Israeli enemies, …
One of the biggest political shocks of the past decade has been the transformation of Canada. Under the influence of the tar barons of Alberta, it has mutated from a country dominated by liberal, pacific, outward-looking values to a thuggish petro-state, ripping up both international treaties and the fabric of …
Under pressure from its donors Syria’s opposition looks poised to agree to forming a new broad-based Syrian National Initiative after its fractious conference in Doha, Reuters reports. A source inside meetings that lasted into the early hours of Friday morning said members of the Syrian National Council, a group made …
On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos lawlessly interdicted Freedom Flotilla vessels in international waters. They were bringing humanitarian aid to besieged Gazans. They attacked and murdered nine Turkish nationals aboard the Mavi Marmara mother ship. Dozens of others were wounded. Everyone on board was arrested, imprisoned …
For courageous Jamahiriya fighters, it’s their finest hour. Despite overwhelming force, use of chemical and other illegal weapons, and US-sponsored mass murder, they hang on valiantly. Western major scoundrels shamelessly ignore the slaughter or misreport it. More on that below. A previous article called what’s happening one of …
The UN’s special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights announced Thursday that the Human Rights Council at the UN will likely initiate an investigation into civilian deaths caused by the CIA and US military’s use of drones and other targeted killing programs, and said that if certain allegations against the …
Activists from the Gaza-bound ship that was intercepted by Israeli forces over the weekend now claim that Israeli soldiers used excessive force including the use of tasers when they stormed the ship. “They used electric shocker devices to the extent of what we call ‘electro torture’ on some of the …
U.S. plans to attack Iran with a mix of nuclear and conventional weapons have been in readiness since June, 2005, a distinguished authority on international affairs says. “Confirmed by military documents as well as official statements, both the U.S. and Israel contemplate the use of nuclear weapons directed against Iran,” …
Out of all the meaningless slogans bantered around this election season, President Obama’s clinging to the “clean coal” banner ranks as one of the most specious. “Clean coal” is a hoax, and the president knows it, and outside of appeasing a few Midwestern Big Coal sycophants and his Duke Energy coal buddy Jim Rogers, who helped …
The yacht sailed from Naples, Italy on October 6 as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement [AFP] Israel has warned to confront by force a Gaza-bound ship if it tries to break the blockade of the Palestinian territory, a Finnish foreign ministry spokesman has said. “The foreign ministry has been …
Waging war is easy. Instigate provocative incidents. Blame them on targeted countries. False flags work as planned. So do Big Lies repeated enough times to get most people to believe them. Stoking fear is a common thread. So is claiming good v. evil. Mix well with misinformation and duplicity. …
“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those, who in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” – Dante The world watches as a nation is torn, slow motion, at the seams. Money and geopolitics has caused a feeding frenzy of western nations biting and tearing at Syria, all hoping to …
The water crisis in Palestine is 100% human-made, not a climate change catastrophe, not an issue of deforestation or drought. Don’t let the geography fool you, as Ziyad Lunat from the Thirsting For Justice campaign pointed out, Jerusalem gets nearly the same amount of rainfall as London. We say Palestine, mind …
Life in Occupied Palestine is hard enough. Imagine how much worse in firing zones. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): (1) Israel designated about 18% of West Bank land closed military zones, aka firing zones. It’s one among other ways Israel steals land. (2) …