Saturday, 30 July 2011
Friday, 29 July 2011
The US-Al Qaeda Alliance: Bosnia, Kosovo and Now Libya. Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists
Global Research
"Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe."
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Bahrain’s Rocky Road to Reform
Is America Caught In The Closed Mind Trap?
"Washington, which has produced a long list of disastrous policy decisions since the collapse of the Soviet Empire two decades ago, will no doubt continue making incredible mistakes about everything, and we will end up with a Caesar or a Fuhrer."
By Paul Craig Roberts
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Puppets in Revolt: Afghanistan , Iraq , Pakistan and the United States
Global Research:
"The puppet ‘revolts’ neither influence the colonial master nor attract the anti-colonial masses. They signal the demise of a US attempt at colonial revivalism. It spells the end of the illusion of the neo-conservative and neo-liberal ideologists who fervently believed that US military power was capably of invading, occupying and ruling the Islamic world via shadow puppets projected over a mass of submissive peoples."
WikiLeaks documents shed light on US-backed intervention in Libya
World Socialist Web Site:
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
9/11: Who Really Benefited?
Global Research:
"We bring to the attention of our readers this provocative review of the strategic and corporate interests behind 9/11 including Wall Street, the Texas oil companies and the defense contractors.
The statements in this article are corroborated by numerous studies, books, news articles and research reports published since September 2001. [...] "
- Michel Chossudovsky
Friday, 22 July 2011
Iran seeks win-win solution in nuclear issue - Tehran Times
“ 'We seek a win-win solution, so if the Westerners believe in such a solution, they should come to the negotiating table on an equal footing,' Salehi said.
“ 'And if they do not believe in this solution, they can continue pursuing the approach they have adopted, since the pressure has made us more experienced,' he added. "
US Afghan Strategy: Senseless and Merciless
Global Research:
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Turkey vs the US: "A kinder Middle East hegemon"
Via Global Research
"However, while still a member of NATO in good standing, Turkey is now becoming a player in its own right, increasingly critical of the US and Israel. This transformation has taken place under the rule of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), which came to power in 2002 and was soon forced to decide how it would deal with the US request to use Turkey as a base to invade neighbouring Iraq. The decision to refuse marked a new stage in Turkey’s foreign relations.
"The US is not always pleased with Turkey’s positions on its many wars and would-be wars, but is forced to make the best of the situation. US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone recently said the US and Turkey share “almost” the same views on military action in Libya, and that Turkey had a unique role in the region and a special expertise because of historical and cultural reasons."
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
'Palestinian unity de-legitimizes Israel' - PressTV
U.S. strategy on new developments in the Middle East
"It seems that the U.S. is trying to create a pattern for other countries out of what is happening in Egypt. Therefore, the continuation of popular uprisings in the region necessitates the support of other independent national and international institutions such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which can pave the way for a real Islamic and anti-western system of governance in these countries.
"Thus, the victory of the revolutionaries and the establishment of democratic regimes, not only stabilizes the teachings of Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, which has hugely inspired the Arab spring, but it also revives the Islamic political awakening for other Muslim nations, resulting in the eternal collapse of family dictatorships in the Arab world."
By Mahdi Kardust
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Suez protesters march to revive revolution demands - The Real News
"Al-Masry Al-Youm: Hundreds of Suez residents organized a march to reassert the revolution demands"
Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed - RT
Israel rules out non-violence - Global Research
"It was an Arab legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law, which outlaws calls to boycott Israel or its settlements in the occupied territories. Ahmed Tibi asked: 'What is a peace activist or Palestinian allowed to do to oppose the occupation? Is there anything you agree to?' ”
The Revolution Business - Global Research TV
Monday, 18 July 2011
Saudi Arabia alarmed by US intentions - Abna
By Webster Griffin Tarpley
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Egyptian Counterrevolution Struggling for a Breakthrough - Truthout
"If anything, that should be the lesson from and reaction to the Tahrir demonstrations: that the time for replicating them was yesterday and that if we want to see them in our own societies tomorrow, we better start organizing to that end today."
By Max Ajl
Via Truthout | News Analysis
Remember Libya?
This weekend, headlines in mainstream media were broadly proclaiming statements such as "Gadhafi regime not legitimate, world leaders say" or "US, other Western nations declare Gadhafi regime no longer legitimate."
According to MSNBC, "In a final statement following a meeting of the so-called Contact Group on Libya, the nations said: The "Gadhafi regime no longer has any legitimate authority in Libya," and Gadhafi and certain members of his family must go."
But Western powers and certainly Western media are working overtime to suppress the fact that Libyans themselves do not share this view of their leader. For better or worse, the people have spoken, and how are Libyans showing their support? To NATO? Certainly not.
AFRICOM Is In Place, The Recolonization Of Africa Commences
The "great democracies" of the West have been the most consistent and most persistent enemy of the African: during slavery, during the scramble for Africa after the Berlin Conference, during colonialism, during apartheid and now during the current effort to recolonise Africa, which we see in Libya and Cote d'Ivoire and the current illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Americans, the British and their European cousins have discouraged and even outlawed as dangerous to their own people are the very same qualities and habits they seek to impose, promote, fund and otherwise reward among our children and within our societies in Africa.
"We tend to look to (those we think are) the experts, the well-educated, thoroughly trained and richly resourced Western journalists for a lead. When they dismiss African leadership with a few worn-out clichés, we follow suit. In the process we reduce our own politics, economics and situation in history into the juvenile language of (Western) tabloids."
Running parallel to the "civil society" network or superstructure is the series of military and intelligence co-operation programmes which Africom is supposed to consolidate. Once Africom is in place, the recolonisation process will have been completed.
by Tafataona Mahoso
Saturday, 16 July 2011
29 Reasons Why America Should Cut Off Ties With Israel, AIPAC And The Neocons
"Israel is not Sparta, America is not the Athenian empire, and Islamic Iran is not the Persian empire of old. But that is what the corrupt and delusional neocons like to think. They've read the ancient Greeks so much that they actually think they are them.
Roger Waters' (Pink Floyd) song for Gaza
http://www.martinsbenperrusi.com/crbst_62.html
Friday, 15 July 2011
War With Iran? US Neocons Aim to Repeat Chalabi-Style Swindle
"In 1991, Iraqi exiles set up the Iraq National Congress (INC) with funding from the CIA. Under the leadership of Ahmad Chalabi, and flush with tens of millions dollars in US government funding, the INC allied itself with the neoconservatives in Washington and unceasingly beat the drums of war, presenting itself as the popular democratic alternative to Saddam Hussein and feeding faulty intelligence to an eager media and Bush administration. Eventually, they succeeded in dragging the United States into disastrous war that cost Americans and Iraqis their lives and caused incalculable damage to American prestige and power.
"Now, history may be repeating itself."
War With Iran? US Neocons Aim to Repeat Chalabi-Style Swindle
"In 1991, Iraqi exiles set up the Iraq National Congress (INC) with funding from the CIA. Under the leadership of Ahmad Chalabi, and flush with tens of millions dollars in US government funding, the INC allied itself with the neoconservatives in Washington and unceasingly beat the drums of war, presenting itself as the popular democratic alternative to Saddam Hussein and feeding faulty intelligence to an eager media and Bush administration. Eventually, they succeeded in dragging the United States into disastrous war that cost Americans and Iraqis their lives and caused incalculable damage to American prestige and power.
"Now, history may be repeating itself."
Bahrain and the Democratic Uprising
Bahrain and the Democratic Uprising
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011
When will Egypt go broke?
"With demonstrators back on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Western media outlets once again are focused on the demands of urban protesters. A less tractable but more important story is: when will the Egyptian economy collapse altogether? The answer appears to be: at the very latest, when Saudi Arabia and Gulf states grow weary of paying Egypt's bills, and probably well before then."
By Spengler
The True Costs of America's Wars
"During his speech on Afghanistan June 22, President Obama revealed that "Over the last decade, we have spent a trillion dollars on war." He knew this was a deceptive understatement, as did everyone who keeps close watch on the Bush-Obama wars all these years."
by Jack A. Smith