Tag Archives: Israel

Sep 3, 2013, LRB One evening in January at a hotel bar in Manhattan, I tried to ingratiate myself with an officer from Bahrain’s mission to the United Nations. Munira (not her real name) was a former student of a friend of mine. She was also a regime insider, close …

Oct 11, 2013, Asia Times Every sentient being with a functional brain perceives the possibility of ending the 34-year Wall of Mistrust between Washington and Tehran as a win-win situation. Here are some of the benefits: The price of oil and gas from the Persian Gulf would go down; Washington …

Oct 9, 2013 [translation from Arabic] Expectations arise about a raging battle might occur in Syria’s south between army units and armed groups, amid Western media reports referring to a Gulf and Western vigorous pursuit to make a breakthrough in the Syrian army field progress, ahead of any political resolution …

Oct 13, 2013, Strategic Culture The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks in that took place in Syria …

Oct 2013, Crescent Online The hysteria over the use of chemical weapons in Syria, wrongly accusing the Syrian government of using them, has inadvertently focussed spotlight on the West’s own use of poison gas and chemical weapons. The West’s record is horrible. Chemical weapons or any other weapons of mass …

Oct 7, 2013, Thierry Meyssan Although the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, loudly praised himself for the vote on Resolution 2118 concerning chemical weapons in Syria, this text marks both the victory of Russia and that of President Bashar al -Assad. The vote carries within itself two consequences that permanently ruin …

            Oct 10, 2013, Global Research Israel and Saudi Arabia are rogue states writ large. They’re two of the world’s worst. They deplore democratic values. They spurn rule of law principles. They commit horrendous human and civil rights abuses. They’re responsible for daily crimes against …

NATO’s North African terror tidal wave predictably sweeps into Kenya Sep 23, 2013, Tony Cartalucci At face value, and how the Western media is attempting to portray it, the Westgate Mall siege in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi appears to be yet another senseless terrorist attack by the “religious fanatics” …

Oct 1, 2013, Consortium News World attention has moved to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, but the evidence on the Aug. 21 attack near Damascus remains hidden and in dispute, causing a group of former U.S. intelligence professionals to ask Moscow and Washington to present what they have. Memorandum …

Oct 1, 2013, Mideast Shuffle While investigating the UN Report on chemical weapons (CW) use in Ghouta, Syria, we sought a multitude of opinions from experts and others who offered insightful observations. We published our findings in an article entitled: Questions Plague UN Report on Syria. To learn more about …