Israeli marines shot dead nine Turkish passengers on the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May 2010 [AFP] Israel says it will stick to its refusal to apologise to Turkey for killing nine of its citizens on a Gaza-bound aid ship, an Israeli official has said. Wednesday’s announcement, which the official said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu conveyed to [...]
The leader of Hezbollah has said that an indictment accusing four members of the Shia group of taking part in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister, Rafiq al-Hariri, contained “no direct evidence” against them. Hassan Nasrallah was responding to the publication earlier on Wednesday of an indictment, which linked the four Hezbollah members to the attack largely through circumstantial evidence [...]
A life unravelled … whistleblower who incurred wrath of the Murdoch empire Relentless legal pursuit of ex-News Corp employee likened to ‘Rambo tactics’ Robert Emmel worked for News Corporation and later notified authorities about illegal business practices. Photograph: Timothy Fadek/Polaris Five years ago Robert Emmel was enjoying the American dream. He lived in a detached [...]
Is Bank of America Headed Toward Collapse? The nation’s largest bank has only gotten bigger since the financial crisis and the government bailouts. But is big trouble ahead for the big bank? August 14, 2011 | Bank of America is no stranger to controversy. The largest bank in the United States has seen, [...]
Scott Horton Interviews David Swanson Scott Horton, August 16, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses “The Military Industrial Complex at 50” national conference in Charlottesville, VA from September 16-18; the paltry defense spending cuts decried by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as a [...]
Showing Enemy Crimes, Ignoring Allied Crimes Jeremy Sapienza, August 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum CNN’s top-front story this morning is a disgusting video showing a dead girl from the al-Ranel neighborhood of Latakia. She was shot in the eye, and is sprawled out on the sidewalk. “Her mouth [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Pepe Escobar Scott Horton, August 15, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Pepe Escobar, journalist and author of Obama Does Globalistan, discusses why his article “Why the Syrian regime won’t fall” could prove false if major demonstrations break out in the largest urban areas, including Damascus and Aleppo; [...]
Assassination as Foreign Policy By William Pfaff, Tribune Media Services, William Pfaff Posted 08/16/2011 at 6:00 pm EST PARIS – Following the Second World War, people who had been involved with the American, British and other Allies’ “Jedburgh” teams supporting the European Resistance just before the Normandy landings, and the work of the British Special Operations [...]
The fact that the landmark trial of Hosni Mubarak is happening at all – in itself a remarkable feat - is glossed over by critics who are quick to point out the flaws in a trial that certainly would not meet Western expectations [EPA] Human rights standards may not be met in this trial, but the more [...]
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
Rather than peeling back the complex layers of the riots like an onion skin, the UK government has instead chosen to respond as though the riots were a spontaneous exercise in criminality [EPA] The riots that have engulfed London and other major cities in England over the past week have finally receded, but in the wake of the horrific [...]
James Murdoch ‘misled MPs’ over how much he really knew about News of the World phone hacking Giving evidence: James Murdoch and his father Rupert Murdoch giving evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on the NOTW in Portcullis House in central London in July By MICHAEL SEAMARK Last updated at 11:26 AM [...]
Britain’s development secretary, Andrew Mitchell, steps down from an African Union armoured vehicle in Mogadishu. Photograph: Pool/Reuters Britain’s international development secretary on Wednesday warned that up to 400,000 children could die through starvation if urgent action is not taken to help Somalia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa. Andrew Mitchell’s grim warning came as he saw [...]
The wreckage of Dag Hammarskjöld‘s plane near Ndola, now Zambia. Eyewitnesses claim they saw a second plane fire at the UN chief’s plane. Photograph: TopFoto New evidence has emerged in one of the most enduring mysteries ofUnited Nations and African history, suggesting that the UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld‘s plane was shot down over Northern Rhodesia [...]
John Yates appearing before a parliamentary committee. Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters The police watchdog said on Wednesday it was opening an independent inquiry into allegations John Yates might have secured a job for the daughter of a former News of the World executive. But the Independent Police Complaints Commission effectively cleared Yates, Sir Paul Stephenson, the former commissioner, Peter [...]
Lord Carlile, the former government anti-terror adviser and Lib Dem MP has criticised ministers for trying to influence the courts on riots sentences rather than concentrating on policy. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The government‘s former terror adviser has intervened in the row over the sentencing of people who took part in last week’s [...]
Youths loot a Carhartt store in Hackney during the recent riots in London. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities – window-smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a [...]
Jordan Blackshaw, left, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan were each jailed for four years for inciting disorder via social networking sites. Photograph: Cheshire Police/PA Criticism is growing of the sentences imposed on some convicted rioters after two men were jailed for four years for posting messages on Facebook inciting people to create disorder in their home towns. [...]
France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy, right, and German chancellor Angela Merkel meet to discuss the debt crisis. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/AFP/Getty Images Watching the still-unfolding eurozone crisis is like watching Europe sleepwalk into an entirely preventable disaster. The latest figures have shown that even the German economy is now experiencing almost zero growth, following other countries, such as [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel want to synchronise nations’ tax policies as part of their attempt to save the eurozone. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/AFP France and Germany have set out plans to create the first “true European economic government” headed by a single appointed leader, as part of major moves to synchronise tax and spending [...]
In 1994 Newt Gingrich pushed for term limits for US congressmen, but was unable to bring them about [GALLO/GETTY] Americans like to think of themselves and their country as a model for the world. Indeed, this attitude of self-congratulation is one of the least attractive aspects of US culture when viewed from abroad, even if [...]
A new generation of resistance has chosen stones instead of Kalashnikovs as its weapon of choice [GALLO/GETTY] Twenty years ago, in the summer of 1991, the Kashmir Valley was in the grip of full-fledged insurrection. Hordes of young, Kalashnikov-wielding men roamed the streets and neighbourhoods of Srinagar, the capital, and the valley’s other towns like [...]
The May 15 Nakba protests put the issue of Palestinian refugees back on the table [GALLO/GETTY] After years of marginalisation in the peace process, the Palestinian refugees are back on centre stage. On May 15, Nakba day, the refugees forced their way on to the news agenda; in the past two weeks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders [...]
Defence chiefs must be called to account Cameron stifles much-needed debate on UK military as generals accused of failed operations and ‘Yes Minister’ attitude WikiLeaks cables: David Cameron is greeted by troops at Patrol Base 2 between Lashkar Gah and Gereshk in Afghanistan. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images “There are moments when I wake up and [...]
Hamas: Israel retreated from its ‘extreme position’ on Shalit deal Senior Hamas official says Israel has been showing much more flexibility regarding its demands in a prisoner exchange deal to secure the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. By Avi Issacharoff and HaaretzTags: Gilad Shalit Hamas Hamas senior official Osama Hamdan said Tuesday that Israel has shown [...]
As Netanyahu Hypes Iranian ‘Threat,’ Russia Holds Tehran Talks Russian Foreign Ministry Terms Talks Stalled, But Efforts Continue by Jason Ditz, August 16, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Nuclear talks are continuing today in Tehran, with Russian officials trying to revive the P5+1 talks in a series of relatively secretive discussions [...]
Two Killed as Israeli Warplanes Bomb Gaza Strip At Least Five Airstrikes Reported Overnight by Jason Ditz, August 16, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israeli warplanes launched at least five air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, killing at least two people and wounding several others. The slain were both termed [...]
Spotlight on Occupied Palestine By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Education as indoctrination Over the last 10 years there have been periodicoutbursts of rage over the alleged anti-Semitic nature of Palestinian textbooks. Most of these episodes have been instigated by an Israeli based organization called the Centre for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (also [...]
Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors? John Boehner and Eric Cantor By Grant Smith * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A large congressional delegation is heading for Israel. During three weeks of recess, 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats will enjoy “educational” trips funded by the American Israel Education Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit located in the same [...]
The American Empire Project We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi PeopleBy Peter Van Buren Published by Metropolitan Books hardcover | 288 9/27/2011 | US$$25.00 ISBN: 0805094369 Read an excerpt Ordering Information About the book: From a State Department insider, the first book recounting our [...]
Peace Without Justice: A Strategy for Carnage in Afghanistan By davidswanson - Posted on 17 August 2011 By Jean Athey, Peace Action Montgomery “It seems that the U.S. and NATO cannot imagine any other options for getting out of Afghanistan other than to kill their way out or buy their way out,” Fabrizio Foschini, who is with the Afghanistan [...]
You can watch the video on: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/2011816201013552300.html Anti-government protesters continue to take to the streets across Syria, despite reports of deaths and arrests as the military cracks down on demonstrators. Rallies were staged in several locations after night prayers on Tuesday, including in Homs, Albu Kamal near the Iraqi border, Binnish in the [...]
Vatican says World Youth Day is chance to confess abortion and rejoin church At the Catholic church‘s World Youth Day, a priest listens to a woman at one of the 200 temporary confessionals in Madrid’s Buen Retiro park. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images Pope dangles ‘fruits of divine grace’ to excommunicated Catholics who admit, [...]
Mikhail Gorbachev: I should have abandoned the Communist party earlier Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, said he should have left the Communist party months before the attempted coup of 1991. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images The former president looks back on his role in the fall of the Soviet Union 20 years ago [...]
Phone hacking: all in this together Clive Goodman‘s explosive letter poses fundamental questions for the whole phone-hacking controversy Editorial guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 20.55 BST Article history On 26 January 2007, Clive Goodman, the News of the World‘s royal editor, pleaded guilty to illegal phone hacking and was jailed for four months. On the same [...]
