For the first time the UN Security Council viewed the results of the Mission in Libya operation after it was established in September last year. The report of UN Secretary General was submitted for the…
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According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, the European Union is the most important weapons exporter to Saudi Arabia. Of all EU member states, France comes first with Euro2168.6 million of exports in 2010. Italy…
One year after the U.S., Britain, and France began their war in Libya, the harmful consequences of Western intervention are readily apparent. The internal disorder and regional instability that the West’s assault created were foreseen…
On March 20, Hana’s 34th hunger strike day began. The previous day, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) said she’s in imminent danger of dying. After examining her, its doctor “determined that she must be hospitalized…
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity The brutality with which the US government exercises its “war on terror” is condemned both by the court of international public opinion and by the principles of international law…
Is the poker game between USA, Iran and Israel nearing its end? I wish I could say something smart about poker; that would be the perfect opening for an article on the ongoing poker game…
When the MI6 is caught red handed in illegal and homicidal activities in Syria the world as we know it is “normal“, no alarm. It becomes an entirely different matter all together when these criminal…
Continues from Part I, “The Jeju Naval Base Another US Base in Korea: Strategic Threat to China I”: http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/03/16/emergency-report-the-entry-to-jeju-island-by-3-american-vets-for-peace-members-were-denied-forcibly-deported-by-s-korean-authorities/ Introduction to Part II Prof. Bruce Cumings, the Chicago University Professor, the world’s most renowed and…
The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that you are losing despite the vast industrial killing machine at your disposal—feeds the culture of atrocity. The fear and stress, the anger and hatred, reduce all Afghans to the enemy, and this includes women, children and the elderly. Civilians and combatants merge into one detested nameless, faceless mass. The psychological leap to murder is short. And murder happens every day in Afghanistan. It happens in drone strikes, artillery bombardments, airstrikes, missile attacks and the withering suppressing fire unleashed in villages from belt-fed machine guns.
The south Korean puppet forces are busy with an odd smear campaign over the issue of DPRK’s launch of Kwangmyongsong-3. Afloat on Saturday alone were rumors aimed to disturb negotiations between the DPRK and the…