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May 17, 2013, Business Insider In eight months since an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi left four Americans dead, a Republican-led investigation has focused on potential missteps by the White House — and come away with nothing significant. There has been little attention given, however, to covert actions …

Dec 29, 2013, the Independent Anti-Shia hate propaganda spread by Sunni religious figures sponsored by, or based in, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies, is creating the ingredients for a sectarian civil war engulfing the entire Muslim world. Iraq and Syria have seen the most violence, with the majority of …

Dec 31, 2013, Consortium News Monday’s terrorist bombings only 400 miles away from the site of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, have a geopolitical back story involving implied threats from Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan to Russian President Vladimir Putin last summer when Bandar was pressing …

Jan 2, 2014, Information Clearinghouse In his annual New Year’s address, Catholic Pope Francis sounded particularly vexed when he urged an end to wars and conflict. “What on Earth is happening in the hearts of men? What on Earth is happening in the heart of humanity?” the pontiff decried to …

Dec 29, 2013, Consortium News The New York Times has, kind of, admitted that it messed up its big front-page story that used a “vector analysis” to pin the blame for the Aug. 21 Sarin attack on the Syrian government, an assertion that was treated by Official Washington as the slam-dunk …

Dec 5, 2013, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya US power in the Middle East is in decline, and American allies in the region are beginning to think of new alternatives to Washington. The Cold War never ended for America’s leaders. There should be no illusions about it, the United States has strategically …

Dec 20, 2013, Consortium News The New York Times continues to pump up the case blaming the Syrian government for the Sarin attack outside Damascus on Aug. 21, despite the collapse of its earlier front-page indictment based on the now discredited “vectoring” of two rockets which the Times suggested were launched …

  Dec 16, 2013, Global Research In August 2011, the Telegraph reported in an article titled, “Libya crisis: Rebel leaders hoping to starve Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte into submission,” that: Rebel leaders hope to starve Colonel Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte into submission, laying siege to his last remaining stronghold …

Dec 30, 2013, Finian Cunningham Saudi largesse is throwing money again – in a bid to cover up its bloodstained hands in violence hitting the Middle East and beyond. The latest public relations gimmick is the “donation” of $3 billion to the Lebanese army made by Saudi King Abdullah at …

Dec 30, 2013, Press TV Press TV talks with Ken Stone, with the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War from Ontario, regarding reports about the upcoming peace talks in Geneva.