We have met the enemy and he is us. — Walt Kelly, 1913-1973 It was political analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, in November 2006, who wrote in detail of US plans for the Middle East. …
Tag: Iraq
On 24 of January, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she was “shocked” at reports that 34 individuals, including two women, were executed in Iraq on 19 January following their conviction…
“The Host and the Parasite” is an extraordinarily important book that traces America’s slide into fascism and subservience to a foreign power. Felton argues persuasively that 3 groups have converged and come to dominate American…
Israel is backing down from her threats to bomb Iran. In a scathing loss of face for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, diplomatic sources in Israel have revealed that President Shimon…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120211/05-25-00-ftp-sanjay-new delhi.flv] At the EU India summit in New Delhi on Friday India resisted pressure by US and the European Union to use its influence on Iran to resume talks about its nuclear program. While…
On the evening of 11 April 2003, a pair of RAF CH47 Chinook helicopters swept over Iraq‘s western desert towards a remote rendezvous point beside Route 10, the highway that begins life on the outskirts…
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable, a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout, over a large part of the Middle East. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort” have been scrapped. “Offensive” military actions using nuclear warheads are now described as acts of “self-defense”. The distinction between tactical nuclear weapons and the conventional battlefield arsenal has been blurred. America’s new nuclear doctrine is based on “a mix of strike capabilities”. The latter, which specifically applies to the Pentagon’s planned aerial bombing of Iran, envisages the use of nukes in combination with conventional weapons. As in the case of the first atomic bomb, which in the words of President Harry Truman “was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base”, today’s “mini-nukes” are heralded as “safe for the surrounding civilian population”.
Look east and what does Bashar see? Iran standing with him and Iraq refusing to impose sanctions ************* President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time….
“The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100 billion a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all.” The United…
“When the U.S. president arrogates to himself the right to bomb and kill at will, he makes himself an outlaw.” President Obama thinks killing people around the globe with drones is as cool as singing…