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Proponents of ‘first strike’ nuclear war against Iran rob billions from their own citizens By Michel Chossudovsky
The Pentagon and NATO’s multibillion-dollar war budgets are financed by massive economic austerity measures, impoverishing people in the US and NATO member-states in order to build advanced nuclear weaponry justified by the ‘Iran threat.’ Continue reading
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The interview given by the President Bashar al-Assad To the turkish Ulusal TV station and Aydinlik newspaper by Bashar al-Assad
5 April 2013 — Voltaire Network Question: Mr President, you are welcome on Ulusal TV station. My first question might be a bit strange, but I need to ask it, because in the Turkish and world media there has been a lot of information published to the effect that you were killed or that you have Continue reading
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Russian War Games send a Strong Message against NATO Intervention in Syria? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Is there a connection between events in Syria (maybe even US tension with North Korea) and Russia’s impromptu Black Sea war games that started on March 28, 2013? 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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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 March 2013: Netanyahu Idiocracy: ‘Kill a Turk’ and Apologize…
29 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Six Injured, Reporter Kidnapped, By The Army In JerusalemIMEMC – Jerusalem March 29, 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that six Palestinians, including an elderly man, have been injured, and one reporter has been kidnapped, after Israeli soldiers attacked Muslim worshipers who tried to enter the Al-Aqsa Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 28 March 2013: Just where does Israel’s legitimacy stem from anyway?
28 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly Report: 4 wounded, 30 abducted by Israeli troops this weekIMEMC – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 21- 27 March 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli forces Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 25 March 2013: Israel’s government of settlers
25 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center On day 236 of Hunger Strike, Issawi’s Heart rate dropsIMEMC – Palestinian prisoner Samer al Issawi is near death, according to doctors, after spending 236 days without food to challenge the Israeli policy of ‘administrative detention’, in which Palestinians are imprisoned for extended periods without trial. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 March 2013: Dismantling the myth of peace in Obama’s discourse
24 March 2013 — VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles News International Middle East Media Center Army Evicts Palestinian Protest VillageIMEMC – Sunday at dawn March 24, 2013; dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Ahfad Younis Palestinian protest village, installed by nonviolent activists five days ago, and removed it after detaining several activists. … Continue reading
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ICH 23 March 2013: Capitol Hill, Calls for Attack On Syria
23 March 2013 — Information Clearing House CIA Passing Info to Syrian Rebels: Report By AFP The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34378.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 March 2013: Israeli Settlers Continue to Attack Palestinians with Impunity
22 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas’ Speech in the news conference in Ramallah with President ObamaIMEMC – Below is the full text of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech in Ramallah in the press conference with US President Barack Obama on Thursday as interpreted. … Continue reading
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ICH 21 March 2013: CIA Plans to Keep Your Information ‘Forever’
21 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Friction Behind The SmilesObama’s New Strategy in the Middle EastBy Ron Ben-YishaiWashington wants Israel to be a quiet partner in this axis so that the Jewish state will be able to cooperate with its neighbors over the table, and mainly under it. This could be beneficial in the event that Continue reading
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SYRIA: US-NATO Backed Al Qaeda Terrorists Armed with WMDs. Chemical Weapons against the Syrian People By Tony Cartalucci
After a 10 year war/occupation in Iraq, the death of over a million people including thousands of US soldiers, all based on patently false claims of the nation possessing “weapons of mass destruction,” (WMDs), it is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both possess,… 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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US-British Al Qaeda Airlift: 3,000 Tons of Weapons Fuel Syria's Destruction
The primary reason, we are told, that the West must immediately begin wider operations to support the so-called Syrian rebels is to head off extremists – namely Al Qaeda, from overrunning Syria. This narrative has been sold for nearly a year now as it has become evidently clear that all major offensives in Syria against… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 24 February – 2 March 2013: Empires / Kosovo / Iraq / Cuba / Niger-Uranium / Bulgaria
2 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Kerry Brings Image of Dapper Diplomacy to Ugly Face of Washington’s Imperialism02.03.2013 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM Any illusions about a possible change in direction for American foreign policy were blown away this week with Kerry’s visit to Europe. And it was Kerry himself who blew away such illusions Continue reading
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Who just started arming Syrian rebels? By Michael Weiss
The Council of the European Union renewed its arms embargo on Syria this week by another three months, with the slight amendment to allow for “greater non-lethal support and technical assistance for the protection of civilians.” The council further affirmed that it would “actively continue the work underway to assess and review, if necessary, the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 February 2013
11 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Five Jerusalem Youths Ordered Under House ArrestIMEMC – The Jerusalem District Court ordered five Palestinian youth from the Beit Safafa town, in occupied East Jerusalem, under house arrest for five days. … Continue reading
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Black Box of Free Syrian Army Is Back in Damascus
Riad al-Ahmad is considered the treasure trove of the secrets of the Free Syrian Army. He was the first Syrian army officer to desert the army and escape to Turkey. He was originally serving in the Syrian city of Banias. After being identified by the secret service as an organizer of the armed protests and… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 3-9 February 2013: Suyria / Turkey / CIA-Paraguay / USA-Russia / IMF / Israel / Cuba / UK-EU / Water
9 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation OIC Summit at Cairo and the Syrian Crisis 09.02.2013 | 11:03 | Aurobinda MAHAPATRA The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit at Cairo indicates that the 57-member Islamic body has endeavored to evolve a dialogue format to resolve the crisis in Syria. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 2 February 2013
2 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Weekly Protest Against The Wall, Settlements, Held In Bil’inIMEMC – Protests Were Also Held In Different Parts Of West Bank Friday February 1, 2013; Dozens of Palestinians, Israeli and International peace activists held their weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and Israel’s illegal Continue reading