Robert Parry | 27 April 2015 With military and political help from Saudi Arabia and Israel, the nightmare scenario of an Al-Qaeda and/or Islamic State victory in Syria may be coming true, as the army of the more secular Syrian government retreats and as President Obama seems frozen by indecision, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The Saudi-Israeli…
John McMurty | Canadian Challenger | 27 April 2015 Scott Scottdale interviews Prof. John McMurtry for Canadian Challenger John McMurtry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and his work is published and translated from Latin America to Japan. He is the author and editor of the three-volume Philosophy and World Problems published…
Nafeez Ahmed | 8 April 2015 Landmark research proves that the US-led ‘war on terror’ has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades Last month, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility (PRS) released a landmark…
Voltaire Network | 5 April 2015 For the last two years, the United States have been secretly negotiating a regional cease-fire with Iran. Having now arrived at a bilateral agreement, they have announced a solution to the nuclear question and the economic sanctions within the framework of the multilateral negociations which have been dragging on…
Washington Post | 4 April 2015 CONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’| This is part of an occasional series about the militant group Islamic State and its violent collision with the United States and others intent on halting the group’s rapid rise. SANLIURFA, Turkey — When Abu Hamza, a former Syrian rebel, agreed to join the Islamic State,…
Robert Parry | 2 April 2015 Iran and world powers have gone into double-overtime in negotiations to ensure that Iran doesn’t build a nuclear bomb, but the shadow over the talks is darkened by decades of distrust and double-dealing, a dimly understood history of the U.S.-Israeli-Iranian triangle, reports Robert Parry. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
VT | 2 April 2015 What happens now in the region is a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran … by Nahed Al Husaini, … for VT Damascus [Editor’s note: This is written as ISIS takes control over the Palestinian camps Franklin Lamb at one time told us so much about. It is our…
Robert Parry | 30 March 2015 Few Americans seem to comprehend what is unfolding in the Middle East – with the latest conflict involving Saudi airstrikes against the Houthi rebels who now control Yemen’s capital of Sanaa. In this swirl of regional wars, it’s often not clear where the U.S. government stands and how American…
Paul Craig Roberts | 30 May 2015 Foundations and corporations do not support truth-tellers. American foundations underwrite war and US imperialism. Foundations support subversion of countries that are not Washington’s puppet states. Your website has no foundation support, no corporate support; it only has your support. I have been around for a long time and…
Ron Paul | 26 March 2015 Rapid changes are occurring in Yemen. Ever since United States had to leave its military base there, other powers have been lining up to benefit from the chaos. It has been revealed that Saudi Arabia has commenced bombing targets in Yemen. Egypt has announced its support for the Saudi…