How to Criticize the Israeli Government
By David Swanson The other day I tweeted an article that reported on a rather horrible story. It seems that the Israeli government gives African women drugs that keep them from reproducing. I think if this story had been about Canada, Korea, France, or Brazil people would have read it. The conversation would not have […]
Read More →The Syria Chemical Weapons Saga: The Staging of a US-NATO Sponsored Humanitarian Disaster?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, December 12, 2012 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-syria-chemical-weapons-saga-the-staging-of-a-us-nato-sponsored-humanitarian-disaster/5315273 Modeled on the Saddam Hussein WMD narrative, the propaganda ploy concerning the alleged threat of Syria’s chemical weapons has been building up over several months. The Western media suggests –in chorus and without evidence– that a “frustrated†and “desperate†president Bashar al […]
Read More →America’s Power Game: Iranian People Victims of US Economic Sanctions
By Kourosh Ziabari Global Research, December 13, 2012 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-power-game-iranian-people-victims-of-us-economic-sanctions/5315555 Iran�s nuclear program seems to have reached a dead end. Iranian officials have politically invested a lot on the country�s nuclear program, which was initially set in motion 6 decades ago when President Dwight D. Eisenhower decided to help his close friend Mohammad […]
Read More →Fabricating WMD “Evidenceâ€: Israeli Covert Operation inside Syria to “Track Chemical Arsenalâ€
By Julie Lévesque Global Research, December 11, 2012 Israel is conducting a covert cross-border operation directed against Syria in liaison with NATO and the Pentagon. After looking for a “smoking gun†in Iran earlier this year, Israeli special forces are now “tracking†Syria’s “stocks of chemical and biological weaponsâ€, according to The Sunday Times. “The cross-border […]
Read More →Syrian refugees ‘turned back from Greek border by police’
Asylum seekers crossing from Turkey say they have been illegally deported by Greek police or blocked from entering UN general secretary Ban Ki-Moon talks to refugees during a visit to the Islahiye Syrian refugee camp in Gaziantep, Turkey. Photograph: Veli Gurgah/Anadolu/EPA On the edge of Europe, where the river Evros meanders towards the Aegean sea, a […]
Read More →Safety, need compete in typhoon-hit Philippines By BULLIT MARQUEZ Associated Press
Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 8:50 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 8:50 p.m. NEW BATAAN, Philippines – The Philippine government’s geological hazard maps show why this farming community was largely washed away by a strong typhoon: “highly susceptible to flooding and landslides.” That didn’t stop some villagers from rebuilding even with bodies […]
Read More →Khaled Meshaal rallies Gazans on Hamas anniversary
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal insisted that Israel had no legitimacy Continue reading the main story Middle East crisis Q&A: UN bid New Palestinian powers? Conflict’s legality Palestinian territories Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal has told tens of thousands of people marking the 25th anniversary of the Palestinian Islamist group’s founding that it will not recognise […]
Read More →Japan PM visit to Russia cancelled over Putin “bad health conditionâ€
Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) poses with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the arrival ceremony for the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok on September 8, 2012. Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has reportedly scrubbed his planned visit to Moscow due to what he has described as “bad health conditions†of Russian President […]
Read More →Fresh US drone strike kills four in northwestern Pakistan
File photo shows a US drone firing a missile.  A fresh US assassination drone strike has claimed the lives of at least four people and severely injured several others in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the porous border with Afghanistan. The causalities come after the aerial strikes targeted a vehicle and a residential compound in […]
Read More →Bomb blast kills 4 Afghan civilians in southeastern Afghanistan
Afghan National Army soldiers inspect the wreckage of a car destroyed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan. (File photo) A roadside bomb has killed at least four civilians in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Ghazni, Press TVreports. Local police officials said that the blast took place on Thursday in an area near Ghazni city, after a […]
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