Alarmist corporate media coverage of the “threat” from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify…
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“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…
The Latin American TV channel TeleSur (The New Television Station of the South) was launched in July of 2005. It became the first project of television broadcasting suggested by President Hugo Chavez. It took TeleSur…
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington,…
KCNA Commentary: ‘U.S. Pacific Century’ and Korean Peninsula The U.S. recently made public a new defense strategy the keynote of which is to maintain its “position as a world leader”. Timed to coincide with this,…
President Obama’s State of the Union 2012 address delivered on January 23, 2012 covered naturally the domestic economic and political conditions and international issues. Intending to remain in the White House for the second term,…
[T]here is a big game happening in the region, with the U.S., India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other players that have been drawn in. The cost of winning in this game is the further strengthening of…
Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S. (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian commando team is operating in the…
Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Iran will hurt them and their economies far more than Iran. Tehran has thus warned the leaders of the E.U. countries that the new sanctions are foolish and against their national and bloc interests, but is this correct? At the end of the day, who will benefit from the chain of events that are being set into motion? Are Oil Embargos against Iran New? Oil embargos against Iran are not new. In 1951, the Iranian administration of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh with the support of the Iranian Parliament nationalized the Iranian oil industry. As a result of Dr. Mossadegh’s nationalization program the British militarily blockaded the territorial waters and national ports of Iran with the British Royal Navy and prevented Iran from exporting its oil.
As a warrior for Internet freedom, you helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA by supporting Web black outs by sites like Wikipedia and by contacting your lawmaker to voice your displeasure. So…