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Tag Archives: Libya
Media Scoundrels Promote War
Stephen Lendman
Syria is target one, then Iran. The road to Tehran runs through Damascus. Western-backed insurgents can’t match Assad’s security forces.
In 2011, Libyan killer gangs had air force support. Without NATO, they’d have been routed.
Expect stepped up intervention in Syria. All signs suggest it… Continue reading
US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law
Tom Carter
A bill passed Monday in the US Congress and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration—to participate in many forms of protest associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests of last year. Several commentators… Continue reading
Profiting From The Pentagon – OpEd
Donald Kaul
Washington’s talking about cutting the military budget. Whoopee.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently revealed plans to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Pentagon’s budget in the next decade, with possibly more reductions on the way.
We’re going to have fewer soldiers… Continue reading
From Washington this looks like Syria‘s ‘Benghazi moment’. But not from here
Robert Fisk
Look east and what does Bashar see? Iran standing with him and Iraq refusing to impose sanctions
February 07, 2012 “The Independent‘ – President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for… Continue reading
Declaration of Social Movements Assembly Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
We, people of all continents, gathered in the Assembly of the Social Movements during the Thematic Social Forum Capitalist Crisis and Social and Environmental Justice, fight against the causes of a systemic crisis expressed as the economic, financial, political, food, and environmental crisis, that
The People vs The United States
Archie Kennedy
The United Nations is empowered, under Article 1 of its Charter, to: “maintain international peace and security”, to “develop friendly relations among nations”, “to achieve international co-operation”, and “to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.”… Continue reading
The Truth Behind the Coming “Regime Change” in Syria
Shamus Cooke
After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood. These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy… Continue reading
Torture and Abuse in Libya
Stephen Lendman
NATO’s alleged “responsibility to protect” was subterfuge. Months of terror bombings left Libya a charnel house.
Africa’s most developed country was ravaged. Tens of thousands were killed, multiples more injured, and millions left on their own sink or swim.
When is war not war?… Continue reading
News: Gibson (Detainee) Inquiry scrapped
London Guantánamo Campaign
The inquiry into over a dozen allegations of British intelligence forces’ complicity in torture abroad, announced by the government in July 2010 (and whose guidelines were published in September 2011), is due to be scrapped pending criminal investigations into British collusion in the “rendition” of… Continue reading
The Geo-Politics of the Strait of Hormuz: Could the U.S. Navy be defeated by Iran in the Persian Gulf?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
After years of U.S. threats, Iran is taking steps which suggest that is both willing and capable of closing the Strait of Hormuz. On December 24, 2011 Iran started
Truth about Syria: Crazy Men in Grey Suits
The west is on the hunt for another war in the Middle East.
Jeremy Salt
January 13, 2012 “Information Clearing House