Middle East
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 14-20 April 2013: Middle East / Boston / Russia-USA / Romania-oil / Kosovo / Europe / Syria
20 April 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Mediterranean: Winds of Change (I) 20.04.2013 | 11:54 | Andrei AKULOV …The recent discoveries of enormous oil and gas reserves in the little-explored Mediterranean Sea between Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Syria and Lebanon suggest that the region could become literally a «new Persian Gulf». But there is a reverse Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 6 April 2013
6 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Four Palestinians, Including A child, Kidnapped In West BankIMEMC – Saturday April 6, 2013; Israeli soldiers kidnapped three Palestinians, including a 10-year-old child, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and one Palestinian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 March – 6 April 2013: Bulgaria / South Stream / Middle East / Central African Republic / Korea / Chiina & Brics / Venezuela
6 April 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Bulgaria: The Phenomenon of Self-Immolation 06.04.2013 | 00:00 | Georgy KOLAROV There is little more than a month left for the protest movement currently gathering momentum in Bulgaria to climax before the parliamentary elections set for 12 May take place. An outburst of public activity can also be expected Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 31 March 2013: CIA Assassinations and the Bank Confiscation Scheme
31 March 2013 — Global Research CIA Targeted Assassinations by Induced Heart Attack and Cancer 013 Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 24-30 March 2013
30 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation BRICS: New Geopolitical Model and Russia’s Foreign Policy Priority30.03.2013 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV Another annual BRICS summit wrapped up on March 27 in South Africa… The BRICS states recognized the right of Palestine to statehood. They emphasized the resolution of the conflict in Syria should be based on the Continue reading
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The Obama Kerry Hagel Regime: Selling Death and Buying Assassins in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia By Prof. James Petras
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an evaluation of the past policies especially in regions where Washington expended its greatest financial and… Continue reading
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The BBC: Impartial Reporting or Pro-Israel Bias? By Lesley Docksey
Is the BBC anti-Semitic as Israel claims or, as many others claim, does the BBC have a pro-Israel bias in its reporting? Continue reading
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Book: DESTROYING LIBYA AND WORLD ORDER – The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution By Francis A. Boyle
It took three decades for the United States government—spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II , and Obama)—to terminate the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution, seize control over Libya’s oil fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (V) By Dmitry MININ
A peculiarity of the formation of «larger spaces», or modern-day empires in the East, is that some of them were themselves, until quite recently, objects of colonial ambition. Other imperial projects, meanwhile, are part of even larger schemes and are being built into an intricate system of hierarchical relations and vassal dependencies, over which the… Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez, Humble Man Who Transformed the World By Rick Rozoff and John Robles
He reconfigured the power relationships not only in the Western Hemisphere, but globally, in a way that could not have been foreseen. The head of state of a country that isn’t a tremendously large one, isn’t a tremendously powerful one, certainly not in military terms, but this is a man who made frequent visits to… Continue reading
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ICH 16 February 2013: The Great Wealth Robbery
16 February 2013 — Information Clearing House What The Syrian Death Tolls Really Tell Us By Sharmine Narwani The latest UN-sponsored figure of 60,000 should not be reported as fact. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33980.htm Continue reading
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Israel Enters The Syrian Theater: Confronting Iran via the Third Option By Ben Schreiner
With its air strikes against targets inside Syria last week, Israel announced its formal entry into the Syrian crisis. The Israeli targeting of Iran has thus entered the Syrian theater. Continue reading
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The Coming Imperial Implosion in the Arab World By Glen Ford
The French intervention in Mali and the deadly Salafist assault on an Algerian natural gas facility on the border with Libya reveal the deepening crisis of U.S. and European imperialism in northern Africa. What is playing out in the western Sahel is the direct, and broadly predictable, result of the aggressive Euro-American response to the… Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 January 2013: Middle East / Israel / Mali / Syria / Lithuania / India-Pakistan / Obama / Venezuela
19 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation In which good news is very bad 19.01.2013 | 10:52 | Rafe MAIR To get down to basics, we have in the Middle East, a four pronged budding crisis, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Israel. Israel has nuclear weapons, Iran will soon have them and the royal family in Continue reading
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ICH 12 January 2013: Propaganda and Tyranny in the Middle East
12 January 2013 — Information Clearing House AFRICOM’s Imperialist Quest By Burkely Hermann Since 2003, the modern American ‘scramble for Africa,’ has begun, as “…in quiet and largely unnoticed ways, the Pentagon and the CIA have been spreading their forces across the continent. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33597.htm Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 January 2013: US / Syria / Christianity / Hagel / Russia-EU-US
12 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation From Lower Class to Prison Caste: the US Shackles Itself 12.01.2013 | 00:00 | David KERANS The economic hardships of the past few years and the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement have made Americans more aware than at any time in living memory of the extraordinary inequalities Continue reading
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