Oct 21, 2013, Press TV Eugene Michael Jones, editor of the Culture Wars Online Magazine from Indiana, has joined Press TV to discuss the upcoming Geneva conference on Syria. What follows is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: This Geneva II Conference was hyped up, there is a …
Read More »Syria: Another Illegal War of Aggression based on Manipulation and Fake Intelligence
Sep 4, 2013, Global Research “Their [pro-Israel neocon] plan, which urged Israel to re-establish ‘the principle of preemption,’ has now been imposed by (Richard) Perle, (Douglas) Feith, (David) Wurmser & Co. on the United States.” Patrick J. Buchanan, American political commentator, The American Conservative, March 24, 2003 “I wasn’t afraid …
Read More »Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Preparing for War with Iran? Major Purchases of “Bunker Buster” Bombs and Missiles from Pentagon
Oct 18, 2013, Global Research The Pentagon plans to sell $10.8 Billion worth of military weapons to its closest allies in the Middle East besides Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the Pentagon will sell Saudi Arabia and the UAE, two of …
Read More »Geneva conference appears to stop Israel’s war campaign against Iran
Oct 17, 2013, Press TV The latest talks between Iran and the six world major powers have stopped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign for war against Iran, a political analyst says. “The developments in the Geneva conference are extremely promising and appear to pull the rug out from under …
Read More »Israel active on Syrian-Turkish border
Oct 19, 2013, Press TV A senior journalist says Israel is active on the Syrian-Turkish border and moves “things” to Syria through Turkey. “You cannot have fighters sneaking across the border at night with backpacks or leading a mule and be able to supply an army like that. You have …
Read More »Bankrupt at Home and Abroad, Syria Shows Washington is a Spent Geopolitical Player
Oct 19, 2013, Strategic Culture Foundation US policy on Syria could be described as «a comedy of errors» if the consequences for human suffering were not so brutal. Having largely created a quagmire of terrorism and lawlessness in Syria through covert insurgency operations over the past two and half years, …
Read More »Dozens of Syrian fighting groups break ties with main opposition, says rebel commander
Oct 16, 2013, Washington Post Several dozen rebel groups in southern Syria have broken with the main political opposition group in exile, a local commander said in a video posted Wednesday, dealing a potential new setback to Western efforts to unify moderates battling President Bashar Assad’s regime. The Turkey-based Syrian …
Read More »Pentagon to sell bunker busters, cruise missiles to Gulf monarchies in $11bn deal
Oct 18, RT.com The Pentagon plans to sell $10.8 billion worth of advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The hardware includes bunker buster bombs and cruise missiles. The planned deal includes shipping 1,000 GBU-39/B bombs to Saudi Arabia and 5,000 to the UAE, AFP reports. They …
Read More »‘Our’ weaponized Wahhabi bastards
Oct 18, 2013, Asia Times Life is good if you’re a member of the Gulf Counter-revolution Club, officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). You can crush the Arab Spring at will. You can hire goons all across dar-al-Islam to advance a sectarian Sunni-Shi’ite divide. You can be deeply implicated …
Read More »How US Pressure Bends UN Agencies
Oct 16, 2013, Consortium News For at least the past dozen years, the U.S. government has aggressively sought to gain control of the leadership of key United Nations agencies, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which is central to the dispute over the Syrian government’s alleged …
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