Saleh has ruled Yemen for 33 years despite CIA’s initial prediction he will not last more than six months [EPA] Profile: Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s president for three decades, has proved a wily political operator but a poor administrator. To protesters’ dismay, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s president, returned to Yemen [...]
In the mainstream media, the human effects of Israel‘s occupation of Palestine are largely ignored [GALLO/GETTY] It’s the show that time and the world forgot. It’s called the Occupation and it’s now in its 45th year. Playing on a landscape about the size of Delaware, it remains largely hidden from view, while Middle Eastern headlines [...]
Pepe Escobar, Will Asia Save Global Capitalism? Posted by Pepe Escobar at 5:33pm, September 25, 2011. Pepe Escobar, that ever-energetic, globetrotting correspondent for Asia Times, has long been on the Pipelinestan beat for TomDispatch, covering the skeletal geography of energy that girds the planet. Today, however, he leaves pipelines behind to consider the planet they service — or is it [...]
What Needs Changing http://warisacrime.org/content/what-needs-changing MIC50.org By Jonathan Williams, Co-founder, Civilian-Soldier Alliance - www.civsol.org Manager of Communications and Online Organizing, Peace Action, www.peace-action.org Thanks to everyone for organizing this conference. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. How do we win? How do we get our demands met? We need power. But what is power? How do we [...]
AP Photo/Richard Drew LATEST NEWS With UN bid, Abbas rises out of Arafat’s shadowFACT CHECK: Abbas presents disputed narrative Latest developments in Arab world’s unrest Israel’s Labor Party picks ex-journalist as leader TV: Former journalist to lead Israel’s Labor Party PHOTO GALLERY Conflict in the Middle East BUY AP PHOTO REPRINTS UNITED NATIONS [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu‘s defense of the siege on Gaza was “criminal.” Haniyeh: Netanyahu speech ‘desperate’ Published yesterday (updated) 25/09/2011 20:34 Netanyahu told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Friday that the Gaza Strip had been taken over by “militant [...]
An Israeli soldier fires tear gas towards Palestinian youths throwing stones, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, October 5, 2010. (MaanImages/Luay Sababa) MADA condemns Israeli aggression against journalists Published yesterday (updated) 25/09/2011 20:06 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A delegation from the Palestinian center for Development and Media [...]
Interim Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril speaks at a news conference during the General Assembly at the United Nations on Sept. 23, in New York. (AFP/Getty Images/Spencer Platt) UN summit acclaims Arab Spring leaders Published yesterday (updated) 25/09/2011 16:54 UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Libya and Egypt brought the Arab Spring to the annual UN [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pictured, speaks at a press conference during the Palestinian ambassadors meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas in Istanbul. [AFP/Mustafa Ozer]\ PM: ‘Broken’ ties with Israel may become norm for Turkey Published yesterday (updated) 25/09/2011 20:34 WASHINGTON (AFP) — Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Sunday that his country’s [...]
An Israeli soldier shoots rubber-bullets at Palestinian youth during clashes at a protest against the Separation Wall at Jayous village near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, February 6, 2009. (MaanImages/Rami Swidan) Court orders compensation for death of Palestinian girl Published yesterday (updated) 25/09/2011 22:07 TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — The family of a [...]
Israelis wave their national flag at a Jerusalem Day parade in July. (AFP/Gali Tibbon, File) A third of Jewish Israelis ‘marginalize Arab citizens’ Published yesterday 16:14 JERUSALEM (AFP) — A survey by an Israeli think tank published on Sunday said while most of the country’s Jews deny claims of discrimination against its Palestinian citizens, [...]
Tony Blair’s six secret visits to Col Gaddafi Image 1 of 2 Tony Blair at a meeting with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi at his desert base in 2007 By Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter 9:32PM BST 24 Sep 2011 Tony Blair’s close relationship to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has come under fresh scrutiny after it emerged he had [...]
The Palestinians have set the cat among the pigeons with their freedom song. And it’s good to see Uncle Sam and his fiendish brat break out in a cold sweat for a change. So what are Israelis and their patrons afraid of? All that the Palestinians have demanded is UN recognition for the little [...]
Obama‘s Free Fall: No Sense of Fair Play By Stuart Littlewood No-one connected with the old discredited peace ‘circus’ should be allowed anywhere near the new quest for justice in the Holy Land. Too many are strangers to fair play and appear to share the morals and mentality of the alley-cat. The only surprise about [...]
Canada’s former ambassador to the UN, Paul Heinbecker. (UN) By Paul Heinbecker ‘To see ourselves as others see us, would from many a blunder free us,’ advice as sound and pertinent today as when first offered the world by Robbie Burns a couple of centuries ago. Our government’s opposition to the Palestinians‘ application to join [...]
Pakistan‘s generals meet as relations with US hit new low Protesters burn a mock US flag during a protest in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Photograph: Nadeem Khawer/EPA Pakistani military join scramble to tackle crisis as tensions with US escalate, raising likelihood of more drone strikes reddit this Declan Walsh in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Sunday 25 September 2011 [...]
Tony Blair faces calls for greater transparency over Middle East role Tony Blair in Jerusalem this week: a spokesman for the former prime minister rejected claims of conflicts of interest. Photograph: Matt LLoyd/Rex Features Former PM visited Gaddafi during Libyan loan negotiations by JP Morgan, the bank that employs him as an adviser reddit [...]
Dmitry Medvedev, left, is expected to replace Vladimir Putin as Russia’s prime minister. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters The fallout from Vladimir Putin‘s announcement that he plans to return to the Kremlin is being felt throughout Russia, with a key liberal official indicating that he plans to quit the government. The finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, a darling of the [...]
A bad romance: Pakistan and US Photo by EPA By Imran Khan in Asia on Sun, 2011-09-25 15:22. Like all great lovers’ tiffs, this one started with frustration. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, decided to make his feelings public. In a nutshell, he accused Pakistan of state sponsored terrorism, [...]
The US pays nearly 25 per cent of the total UN budget [EPA] Has the UN been designed to fail? The UN seems to have been designed to fail, due to bureaucracy and the exclusive power of the Security Council. Danny Schechter Last Modified: 25 Sep 2011 16:17 One of the most astute [...]
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen‘s embattled president, has called for early presidential and parliamentary elections for a peaceful transfer of power in his strife-torn country. In an address on television, Saleh said he had authorised the vice-president to engage in dialogue with the opposition and sign a transition deal. He said presidential and parliamentary elections would [...]
Police crack down on ‘Occupy Wall Street‘ protests The Occupy Wall Street protests. Photograph: Tina Fineberg/AP New York police accused of heavy-handed tactics as 80 anti-capitalist protesters on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ march are arrested reddit this Comments (119) The anti-capitalist protests that have become something of a fixture in Lower Manhattan over the past [...]
Austerity measures risk irreversible impact on children, warns Unicef Christine Lagarde in Washington. Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/AP UN children’s fund challenges pledges by IMF and World Bank to safeguard poor people from the worst of the global downturn reddit this Larry Elliott in Washington guardian.co.uk, Sunday 25 September 2011 11.46 BST Article history Pledges [...]
EU given six weeks to protect itself against ‘inevitable Greek default’ The EU has been warned that it must plan for the fallout of what it believes is Greece‘s inevitable default. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images IMF tells eurozone EFSF may need to be boosted five-fold to £1.7tn to convince markets that default could be [...]
No Peace or Justice in Our Time with Netanyahu By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 24 September 2011 No Peace or Justice in Our Time with Netanyahu – by Stephen Lendman Like his Washington paymaster/partner, Netanyahu deplores peace. Initiating talks never worked before and won’t now. Speaking privately at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New [...]
War on the Earth: Atomic Appalachia and the Militarized Southeast By davidswanson - Posted on 25 September 2011 MIC50.org MIC at 50 – Charlottesville, VA, September 16-18, 2011 Coleman Smith and Clare Hanrahan of New South Network of War Resisters Militarism is killing us. It is waging a war on the Earth and the devastation wrought [...]
Netanyahu and Obama Spurn Peace By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 25 September 2011 Netanyahu and Obama Spurn Peace – by Stephen Lendman As a belligerent modern-day Sparta, Israel is a pariah state. Netanyahu exceeds the worst of Ariel Sharon. His government is Israel’s worst ever. His majority Knesset allies are rogue, racist criminals, operating outside [...]
Bombings and attacks are once again becoming an almost daily occurrence in Iraq after a lull in violence [AFP] Four explosions have rocked the Iraqi city of Karbala, around 118km south of the capital Baghdad, leaving at least 10 people dead and 12 more wounded, sources say. The back-to-back explosions occurred on Sunday outside a governmental [...]
New Draft of Oil Law Could Mean More Hostilities for Iraq Baghdad retains more power for itself at expense of Kurds, Shi’ites and Sunnis by Margaret Griffis, September 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Iraqi cabinet has amended the draft of a much-debated hydrocarbons law, further complicating the delicate political atmosphere. The changes advanced [...]
Obama Secretly Sold Israel Bunker-Buster Bombs (Bush Refused) Commonly known as “bunker busters,” 2,000-pound penetrator bombs are stored on pallets in a bunker at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in McAlester, Okla., in this file photo. , AP Photo; Inset: Getty Images by HAITHAM SABBAH on SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 Spread it! 11| 57Share 0 inShare 1digg [...]
