By Bjorn Carey | ( Stanford News Service) | – –
It isn’t Israel that is being “delegitimized” but the Occupation of Palestine
By: John V. Whitbeck | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – June 5 marked the 48th anniversary of the “preemptive” attack on Egypt with which Israel launched the fateful “Six-Day War” that permitted the Zionist movement to complete its conquest of historical Palestine. As the “State of Palestine” (the legal designation for the 22 percent […]
Donald Rumsfeld Blames Bush For Iraq Democracy Fail
Mark Sovel & Elliot Hill | (The Lip TV – Video) | – – “Donald Rumsfeld said George W. Bush was wrong about Iraq in a recent interview with British newspaper The Times where the former Secretary of Defense called the Bush administration’s efforts to push democracy on Iraq “unrealistic”. In the interview, Rumsfeld, a […]
Jon Stewart on Iran, Israel and Directing Rosewater: “It Turns out the Middle East is Somewhat of a Hotbed”
By Alexander Bisley | (Lumiere Reader) | – – N.B. Rosewater is now streaming at Amazon Instant Video and will be available on Netflix beginning June 10 It’s slightly surreal interviewing Jon Stewart, The Daily Show interviewer. His debut film Rosewater tells the story of Maziar Bahari (played by Gael García Bernal), imprisoned in solitary […]
Egypt: Year of Abuses Under al-Sisi — President Gets Western Support While Erasing Human Rights Gains
Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has presided over the flagrant abuse of human rights since taking office a year ago pledging to restore stability. Violence by armed groups and the government has escalated. The United States and European governments should stop overlooking Egyptian government abuses, including […]
Obama: We don’t have a “complete strategy” against ISIL
CBS News | (Video Report) | – – “President Obama said Monday the United States does not have a complete plan to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), saying Baghdad needs to show a greater commitment to building a fighting force. “We don’t yet have a […]
Israeli Military Blockade makes Fishing, Farming in Gaza Deadly for Palestinians
By Mel Frykberg | – – RAMALLAH, West Bank (IPS) – Three Palestinian fishermen were injured last week after Israeli naval forces opened fire on fishing boats off the coast of al-Sudaniyya in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing to 15 the number of farmers and fishermen shot and injured by Israeli security forces recently as […]
By the Time Washington wakes up to China’s Eurasian Strategy will it be too Late?
By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn’t know it in Washington, though. America’s political, national security, and foreign policy elites continue to ignore the basics of geopolitics that have shaped the fate of world empires for the past 500 years. Consequently, […]
Did Jeb Bush’s brother “Create ISIL” in Iraq?
by Brian Glyn Williams It was one of those moments that politicians dread. An unscripted incident last month when a voice in a crowd pinned down a candidate on an issue he could not squirm away from and made news in the process. With the media recording every word, a 19 year old college student […]
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