Archive | August, 2010

Lebanon scatters a little chicken feed and labels it ‘manna from heaven’

Lebanon scatters a little chicken feed and labels it ‘manna from heaven’

By Franklin Lamb Part XI of a series on securing civil rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon “Palestinian guests in Lebanon are working with total freedom. First of all we do not refer to them as “refugees”. They are our brothers who are suffering and in a very difficult situation that they did not cause [...]

Israel’s Hidden Hands in Lebanon: Who Killed Hariri?

Israel’s Hidden Hands in Lebanon: Who Killed Hariri?

By ESAM AL-AMIN On Valentine’s Day in 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri left in his motorcade along the seaside highway, cruising towards his mansion. As the motorcade slowed down in front of the St. George Hotel in downtown Beirut, a huge explosion of a parked Mitsubishi pick-up truck detonated at 12:56 PM, killing [...]

Bob Nichols: EVACUATE NOW! This is Not a Drill

Bob Nichols: EVACUATE NOW! This is Not a Drill

(San Francisco) – Russia is burning down this summer. The smoke is engulfing Moscow and the European Union. Embassies are emptying. What’s the deal? Thousands of forest fires are burning all over Russia. More importantly, the nuclear weapons factories and reactors around Mayak and the former Soviet Union’s Uranium Project are going up in smoke. [...]

Ken O’Keefe: A Beautiful Gift from the BBC

Ken O’Keefe: A Beautiful Gift from the BBC

By Ken O’Keefe (Veterans Today) If you Haven’t Seen It, Check out the BBC Panorama’s “Death in the Med” program (watch video below) and You’ll be Treated to First Class Propaganda as Only the BBC Can Deliver I am one of the passengers/witnesses interviewed for this program and I am very much aware of BBC’s role in justifying war [...]

Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan: Diplomacy of Brotherhood

Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan: Diplomacy of Brotherhood

Kourosh Ziabari  (Salem-News.Com) The three countries stressed the importance of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and underlined the inalienable right of the NPT member states to use the nuclear power for peaceful purposes. (TEHRAN) – The Trilateral Summit of the presidents of three Persian-speaking countries of Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan wrapped up on 5 August in Tehran [...]

Bin Laden is Dead; Long Live “Bin Laden”

Bin Laden is Dead; Long Live “Bin Laden”

By Maidhc Ó Cathail Who’s keeping the terror myth alive? In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated “evildoer” prove a negative. Iraq was invaded because it couldn’t prove that it didn’t have WMDs. Iran is under constant threat of attack unless it can demonstrate [...]

GORDON DUFF: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, THE AMERICAN PRESS

GORDON DUFF: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, THE AMERICAN PRESS

STEALING AMERICA’S FREEDOMS LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT… It’s 2010 and a few members of congress have noted that we have a corruption problem in Afghanistan.  Over a period of 9 years. $2.4 trillion dollars has been stolen with a dozen enquiries, dozens of reports, audits, all saying the same thing.  The “war on [...]

How do you solve a problem like Syria?

How do you solve a problem like Syria?

Samira Quraishy (Source: Middle East Monitor) As Russia prepares to deliver fuel for Iran’s nuclear reactors, it is worth casting a reviewer’s eye over the potential for further conflict in the Middle East. In one corner we have the Zionist state of Israel and its somewhat reluctant – although faithful-ally, the United States. In the [...]