The Truth About Ayatullah Khomeini of Iran in 1979

Discovering Islam | 2012 Khomeini’s Background & His British Father With all bets off, the Iranian reformers have now struck at the heart of the revolution and are insisting on an inquiry into the disappearance of Imam (Ayatollah) Musa Sadr, some 25-years ago, during a visit to Libya. The Iranian-born leader of the Lebanese Shia, Imam…

British Royal Nazi Salute – a Sign of the Times

SCF | 20 July 2015 The British royal family is up in arms – excuse the pun – over old video footage that shows the young Queen Elizabeth giving a Heil Hitler salute. A photograph published on its front page by British tabloid newspaper The Sun has caused a storm of controversy, with the British…

Palace defend Queen’s ‘Nazi’ salute

NZ Herald | 18 July 2015 Buckingham Palace has defended footage from 1933 that shows a young Queen performing a Nazi salute with her family at Balmoral. The film, obtained by The Sun, shows the Queen, then aged six or seven, join the Queen Mother and her uncle Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, in…

Murder in the Air

VT | 3 July 2015 Editor’s note:  The officers and sailors of the USS Vincennes may have the honor of being among the absolutely worst and most shameful of any who have ever served in uniform.  Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air civilian passenger flight from Iran’s southwestern city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai…

WikiLeaks Releases 500K U.S. Cables from 1978 on Iran, Sandinistas, Afghanistan, Israel & More

Democracy Now! | 28 May 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QscSJZXQQR4?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] On Wednesday, WikiLeaks added more than half a million U.S. diplomatic cables from 1978 to its Public Library of US Diplomacy database. The documents include diplomatic cables and other diplomatic communications from and to U.S. embassies and missions in nearly every country. “1978 actually set in progress…