Obama names Locke as ambassador to China

U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the next ambassador to China. Locke would be the first Chinese-American to serve as Washington’s envoy to Beijing. If approved by the Senate, he…

S Korea, U.S. conduct live-fire exercise

South Korean and U.S. soldiers on Monday displayed their readiness against any possible threats in a live-fire exercise which involved the Stryker Interim Armored Vehicles. Four Stryker vehicles and some 40 soldiers took part in…

NATO’s Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya

The colossal campaign of lies, unleashed by the mass media, resulted in great confusion in world public opinion. Some time will go by before we can reconstruct what has really happened in Libya, and we can separate the true facts from the false ones that have been spread.

Petroleum and Empire in North Africa. NATO Invasion of Libya Underway

In short, almost everything in the western press on the crises in Libya is slanted by some faction, or interest, or it is tainted by western arrogance, or by anti-imperialist ideology (of ‘solidarity’), even in the case of the alternative media. There is very little accurate reporting of any kind (but some good work linked or cited herein).

US, UK, French forces land in Libya

By Akhtar Jamal:       Several hundred “defence advisors” to support anti-Ghadafi Forces Islamabad—The United States, Britain and France have sent several hundred “defence advisors” to train and support the anti-Gadhafi forces in oil-rich…