By Khalid Amayreh: There are growing signs that Israel is quite apprehensive about the revolutionary reforms taking place in the Arab world. Israeli officials and commentators are anxious about the prospects of these revolutions “turning…
Category: Global Issues
According to recent reports, al-Qaida has posted acknowledgment on “Islamic internet forums” that the military attack had been successful in killing bin Laden last Sunday, thereby helping the White House refute any possible malicious conspiracy theories. How helpful! Characteristically, a White House spokesperson said al-Qaida was only confirming the obvious. When asked about further details of the operation, he announced that it was very important (!) that he say nothing further.
Three years after a devastating earthquake, the worst-hit areas in Sichuan and neighboring provinces, phoenix-like, have risen from the rubble. Ninety-five percent of reconstruction projects have been completed, with the remainder set to be finished…
By Michael Winship: Nothing is certain but death and taxes, it used to be said, but in the madcap times we live in, even they’re up for grabs. No matter what proof the White House…
China’s commerce minister called the United States government not to discriminate direct investments from China, contending U.S’ profiling and screening of Chinese investment proposals “neither fair nor transparent”. “We hope the United States can treat…
The Korean War ended in 1953, but its legacy still lingers in American war-making policy today. At a recent conference on “The Unending Korean War” at New York University, the keynote speaker, Bruce Cumings, a…
The American administration is lying, and it certainly has something to hide, something it wishes to keep from the public conscience, whether it is within the United States or outside it, and the Pakistani powers are complicit in this. Do you really think that foreign helicopters can arrive at a location just a few meters away from the most important military college in the country and just a few kilometers from an important munitions factory, attack one of the houses in the town of Abbottabad, kill a group of residents and take possession of their bodies in an operation that lasted no less than an hour without anyone opposing them?
However, on the contrary, there seem many serious, almost irreconcilable, disagreements and disputes against a Western/US claim, i.e., if he was the root cause of the international terrorism.
Pieczenik said that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001, “Not because special forces had killed him, but because as a physician I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome,” adding that the US government knew Bin Laden was dead before they invaded Afghanistan.
NATO is getting ready for a land operation against Libya. The alliance requires only sanction from the U.N. Security Council. Broader intervention in Libya is due to fear of losing control of the situation. In…