The Daily Star | 14 March 2016 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he would start pulling his armed forces out of Syria, five months after he ordered a military intervention that turned the tide of the war in favor of Syrian President Bashar Assad. “I believe that the task put before the…
Myanmar Times | 14 March 2016 At least three newborns have died and another two dozen are reacting poorly after a round of hepatitis B vaccinations last week at Bago General Hospital. Health officials are scrambling to determine what went wrong during what should have been a routine procedure. Between March 4 and 7, 28…
NZ Herald | 15 March 2016 Cullen-Reddy report finds little to offset concerns raised by our links with global intelligence network The intelligence services report by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy sheds more light on the GCSB’s work with the Five Eyes network, but it also leaves several questions unanswered. Since the Snowden…
The Atlantic | April 2016 Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back from the consuming void—began with a thundering speech given on Obama’s…
The Daily Blog | 10 March 2016 The Anti-Bases Campaign is appalled by the recommendations made in the newly-released Intelligence Agencies review. The authors have proposed overthrowing a basic tenet of spy operations in this country and paved the way for a massive expansion in surveillance of NZ citizens. This is just another retrograde step…
Gareth Porter | 14 March 2016 Secretary of State Kerry urged President Obama to launch secret missile attacks inside Syria without admitting the U.S. role, a plan that Obama rejected Jeffrey Goldberg’s newly published book-length article on Barack Obama and the Middle East includes a major revelation that brings US Secretary of State John Kerry’s…
NZ Herald | 15 March 2016 Labour leader Andrew Little met United States’ intelligence chief James Clapper yesterday – on the initiative of the Prime Minister’s office. Mr Little told the Herald he probed Mr Clapper about Congress oversight of US intelligence agencies. “We talked about the Senate and the House committees on intelligence and…
The Independent | 11 March 2016 No honour among imperialists Barack Obama has sharply criticised David Cameron for the UK’s role in allowing Libya to become a “shit show” after the fall of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in an unprecedented attack on a British leader by a serving US President. Mr Obama said that following…
Robert Parry | 9 March 2016 The United States is led by two corrupt establishments, one Democratic and one Republican, both deeply dependent on special-interest money, both sharing a similar perspective on world affairs, and both disdainful toward the American people who are treated as objects to be manipulated, not citizens to be respected. There…
William Blum | 11 March 2016 If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I’m somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I’m PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump. My main concern is foreign policy. American…