Their explanation for the daily series of macabre pictures on  Syrian state TV lacks conviction. By Robert Fisk April 27, 2011 “Independent” — -Every night, Syrian state television is a horror show. Naked corpses with multiple bullet wounds, backs of heads sliced off. All Syrian soldiers, it insists, murdered by “the treacherous armed criminal gangs” [...]

Forget Libya. Washington should pay closer attention to the violent protests imperiling the Assad regime in Damascus. If there’s one country where unrest could truly set the Middle East alight, it’s Syria. BY PATRICK SEALE / FP While one war rages in Libya, another rages in Washington as to the necessity of U.S. action there. [...]

Steve Walt a great satirist… Let’s look at the vast influence that the “Arab lobby” has wielded in recent years. by Stephen M. Walt / Dec.9, 2010 Keeping up with Jeffrey Goldberg’s errors is like trying to dam the Gulf Stream, and responding to his repeated smears is a mug’s game. I suppose I could [...]

The sage of Lebanon, Dr. Hoss explained that a civil war is unlikely given the attitudes of the young generation and the fact that none of the sects could successfully confront the Opposition led by Hezbollah and western powers lack credibility here. Franklin Lamb’s Saturday Mideast Report — Al Manar Informed Congressional sources in Washington [...]

Lawson is right in saying that, “Wiki Leaks has given the mainstream media yet another opportunity to vilify Iran.  A typical headline, from the New York Times was: “Around the world distress over Iran.” And, ironically, it is true, but not in the way the headline writer meant. Around the world there is distress over [...]

The Times, of course, supports US imperial wars, including the Afghan and Iraq quagmires. Unsurprisingly, the London Guardian said the documents “reveal how the US uses its embassies as part of a global espionage network.” By Stephen Lendman On November 28, WikiLeaks began releasing over 250,000 leaked State Department and US Embassy cables (many designated [...]

By Sami Moubayed How would the world react to false witnesses after World War II, at Lockerbie, or after 9-11? Why have false witnesses in the Hariri Affair been protected—to say the least—by the international community? Perhaps the most celebrated trial of the 20th century was that of Nuremberg, which took place in October 1945 [...]

Despite your claims and twisting of the truth, Mr. Murdoch, the threats faced today are not “part of an ongoing war against the Jews.” The threat is the fear mongering which supports your war mongering. By Paul Balles — My Catbird Seat – Rupert Murdoch the warmonger encouraged George W. Bush’s maniacal killing spree in [...]