DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: U.S., ISRAEL AND IRAN IS STARTING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE U.S., ISRAEL AND IRAQ IN 2002. At least it looks this way to the “Roving Eye” reporter for Asia Times, Pepe Escobar. Benjamin Netanyahu, now PM, was not in power in ’02 but helped to lead the war [...]
U.S. DEVELOPING NEW EXCUSE TO DELAY WITHDRAWING FROM AFGHANISTAN. The U.S. government “reluctantly” agreed to transfer detainees from Bagram prison to Afghan ones, expressing concerns about a history of detainees being tortured in local prisoners. John Glaser sees this as a false reason for prolonging the American presence in the country, as human [...]
ISRAEL RUSHES TO “PUNISH PALESTINIANS FOR THEIR “ATTACK ON ZIONISM.” Tensions already high in the region after the brutal but short-lived battle in Gaza, Israel steps up its campaign of harassment against Palestine by taking unprecedented steps to “punish” them for last week’s historic UN vote to partially recognize a Palestinian state. Israel [...]
More signs are pointing towards as many as two new arenas for U.S. military intervention in the Middle East, with strategic and political circumstances putting Syria and Iran in American cross-hairs before this November’s “historic” presidential election. While much of the campaign is framed by the media as a clash of vast ideological differences between [...]
AFRICANS IN ISRAEL POSE “A CONCRETE THREAT TO THE JEWISH AND DEMOCRATIC CHARACTER OF ISRAEL.” (Electronic Intifada) This 2010 statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu epitomizes the current spate of violence against African refugees (mostly from Sudan and Eritrea) in Israel. The verbal violence of right wing voices, including some of those who serve [...]
WORLD POWERS SCRAMBLE FOR ARCTIC SUPREMACY AS CLIMATE CHANGE TRANSFORMS THE TOP OF THE GLOBE. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Besides the familiar and well documented consequences of man-made climate change — rising seas, melting ice, mass extinctions – a potentially more deadly twist may be becoming more apparent. Several of the world’s foremost military powers, including the United States [...]
THE SYRIAN DECEPTION (Global Research) Western governments, abetted by an uncritical mainstream media, are preparing the ground for an all-out war with Syria by perpetuating the myth of a “humanitarian crisis” in which the Syrian government brutally suppresses a popular uprising seeking only their freedom from a horrible dictatorship. Stratfor, WikiLeaks and other sources of information [...]
The two timeless engines of the lustful geopolitical exertions of western powers, oil and influence, have been raging with a new brutality as of late in the ongoing game of American and European dominance in global affairs. The combination of political pressure and the cost of filling up your average American — or British — [...]
The actions taken by the United States on Monday may not be a formal declaration of war against Iran, but it represents the most significant escalation yet in the use of coordinated international pressure on the Iranian regime. Actual hositlieis are the next logical step. The new round of sanctions announced by the United States on Monday [...]
Conventional wisdom has pegged President Obama as somehow lacking in his deference and cooperation with Israel, under attack from possible presidential rivals and facing a political crisis among Democratic Jewish voters. But shocking new developments and even a cursory glance at the Obama administration’s record on the topic reveals that the president may not be [...]
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