The United States offered Israel advanced weaponry in return for it committing not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities this year, Israeli daily Maariv reported on Thursday. Citing unnamed Western diplomats and intelligence sources, the report…
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Introduction There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police…
Never in the field of human conflict was so much suffered by so many due to so few Netanyahu at AIPAC March 5, 2012 “Returning to tomorrow’s crucial meeting between Netanyahu and Obama,…
As we approach the tragic one-year anniversary of Fukushima’s multiple nuclear reactors’ accident on March 11, that initially affected the entire Japanese population, we now know that this nightmare has engulfed all of us. Let us also not forget that this is the third nuclear attack on the Japanese (the first two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Given what has not been done to ensure public safety, we cannot think of it any other way. From the very first day, there were lies and a massive cover-up of the extent of the destruction and the inherent radioactive dangers –not just from Japanese officials and TEPCO corporate reports, but also from the US.
Japan’s government foresaw the possibility of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant hours after a huge tsunami smashed into it, according to cabinet minutes released on Friday, although it took officials more than…
Let me be clear that this blogpost is not about sour grapes. But the media cacophony on Syria has just become too shrill – reporters, too reluctant to raise obvious questions – to just sit…
The west wasted trillions in needless conflict with the USSR. Now we are being brainwashed into confrontation with Iran ‘With the end of the cold war … the west’s craving for a necessary enemy has…
“The crisis is at its end” is no longer a relieving statement made by some political analysts, as the crisis is really close to its end. Baba Amro is now under the control of the Syrian army… and so are the armed groups of which a big number escaped to the Lebanese borders dubbing their retreat “tactical”. Around 700 Arab and Western gunmen surrendered in Baba Amro, well-informed sources told Al-Manar website, adding that “huge and critical surprises will be uncovered in the coming few days… such as the kinds of arms seized, as well as the military tactics the armed groups followed, and the sides that supervised the operations.” The sources further assured to the news website that the security operation in Homs will be over in a maximum of five to eight days.
US Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (L) and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey prepare to testify at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7, 2012 on…
British and Qatari troops preparing military incursion through Turkey According to Aviation Week, Syria’s “newly improved, long-range surveillance and intelligence-gathering facilities” represent an obstacle to an Israeli attack on Iran. Focussing on the cooperation between Syria…