Global Research | 13 May 2015 Osama bin Laden is back in the news this week with Seymour Hersh’s recent article The Killing of Osama bin Laden, which exposes the lies of the official narrative. While Hersh does not challenge the official assertion that bin Laden was killed in 2011 by U.S. Special Forces “his…
Seymour Hersh | 12 May 2015 It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that…
NEO | 11 May 2015 US policy think-tank Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda, US-Saudi “moderates” and Turkey-Qatar “Islamists” have been coordinating all along. The war in Syria continues to drag on, with a recent and renewed vigor demonstrated behind an opposition long portrayed as fractured and reflecting a myriad of competing foreign interests.…
Breitbart | May 11, 2015 Keep the pressure on ISIS and Al Qaeda Monday on “CBS This Morning,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said if we don’t keep the pressure on ISIS and Al Qaeda “we are going to see another 9/11 style attack.” In responding to comment yesterday by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh…
Consortium News | 2 May 2015 President Obama is tolerating the smuggling of high-tech U.S. weapons to a Syrian rebel coalition led by an Al-Qaeda affiliate, as these Islamists — supported by the Saudis and other U.S. allies — mount a new offensive to topple the secular government in Damascus, as Daniel Lazare explains. After years…
Robert Parry | 15 April 2015 The odd-couple relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel may have been sealed with more than a mutual desire to kiss-off Iran. According to an intelligence source, there was a dowry involved, too, with the Saudis reportedly giving Israel some $16 billion, writes Robert Parry. For more than half a…
CNSNews | April 21, 2015 Assad reiterated his view that there is no “moderate” opposition to his rule The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was created in Iraq in 2006 “under the supervision of the Americans,” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told French television in an interview broadcast on Monday. With the civil war…
21st Century Wire | 4 April 2015 21st Century Wire says… What US and European media have been slow to figure out (or ignore), is how Israel is up to its neck in fueling the long dirty war next door in Syria. Let’s be clear – once again Israel has been caught red-handed providing aid…
Lew Rockwell | 5 April 2015 As the US-backed Saudi bombing of Yemen enters its second week, more than 500 people — including many civilians — have been killed, what infrastructure existed in the impoverished country has been destroyed, and the ousted president cheers on the destruction of his country within the protective embrace of…
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…