On Jan. 10, the Communist Party of Turkey launched a new campaign against the deployment of Patriot missile batteries in Turkey. Members of TKP have set up a tent in a park in downtown Ankara to gather
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A top secret memo sent by the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia reveals the Saudi Kingdom sent death-row inmates, sentenced to execution by decapitation, to Syria to fight Jihad against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences.…
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, mastermind behind the terrorist attack on the In Amenas Gas complex was enlisted at age 19 to fight within the ranks of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, at a time when the CIA and Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) were actively supporting the jihadists in both recruitment and training.
“What is needed is a clear understanding of the issues involved so that informed decisions can be made.” The UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems, MoD 2011
In 2011 the MoD published its policy document on the use of armed …
As we predicted this past week, the theatrical upheaval in Mali was merely a nudging exercise to move forward the stated objectives laid down in US AFRICOM policy.
With no debate or questioning in foreign policy circles, and with Obama’s
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The Algerian kidnappers and the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
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January 20 2013
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The only thing that surprised me when I heard that the Algerian kidnappers had called for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui was that it hadn’t happened sooner.
Don’t get me wrong, as a former hostage myself, there is no
The defense team for Army Private Bradley Manning will not be allowed to present evidence of his motives behind the intelligence leaks for which he faces 22 charges, a military judge ruled Thursday. The ruling, which is not available to …
Standoff continues in Algerian hostage crisis
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January 20 2013
The standoff at the Tinguentourine natural gas site between Algerian Special Forces and Islamist insurgents hostile to France’s war in Mali continued yesterday, even as France escalated its invasion of neighboring Mali.
Algerian authorities have still not given a breakdown …
Global Research News Hour Episode 11
“We have had enough. Our young people have had enough. Our women have had enough … we have nothing left to lose… These are demands, not requests … the Idle No More movement has …
A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Obama made no mention of King during the Inauguration four years ago -- but since then, he has done much to distinguish himself from the man who said “I have a dream.”
Dangerous Cross-Roads in East-West Relations
In October 2012, Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari sent a letter to the President of the Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon listing 108 foreign individuals involved in terrorism arrested in the Syrian Arab Republic .
Iran hasn’t been in the headlines in recent months, but there’s a lot of talk that 2013 will be the year of decision on Iran—whether a deal will be struck between the U.S. and its allies and Iran on ending …
By Liu Gang
At the end of 2012, the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan won the country’s election. Its significance for Japan’s politics goes much further than the election itself.
Japan’s economy is suffering. While Japan’s political parties are struggling …
The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever conceived: the creation of money by sovereign governments, debt-free.
Last week on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart characterized the proposal that the White House …
Worried about draconian Internet laws? Creeping surveillance? The inability to share with others without being criminalized? The Internet is still a tool of tremendous power, but a deep rot has set in. We have caught it early and we are …
We have entered an age of constant conflict….Only the foolish will fight fair. Lt Col Ralph Peters
It seems to be a worldwide given that senior politicians and military personnel make use of the revolving door when they retire …
France, the former slave power of west Africa, has poured into Mali with a vengeance in a military attack launched on January 11. French warplanes are bombing towns and cities across the vast swath of northern Mali, a territory measuring
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The World Bank issued its biannual Global Economic Prospects report Tuesday, sharply downgrading its forecast for economic growth from its previous report released last June. The Washington-based international lending agency projected an expansion of the world economy in 2013 of …
Week in Review: Scramble for Africa
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January 18 2013
Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil War, Abayomi Azikiwe, January 18, 2013
Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire
In regard to the situation in Algeria, there has been over the last two decades insurgencies led
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Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire
In regard to the situation in Algeria, there has been over the last two decades insurgencies led by Islamist forces there and it appeared as if these difficulties and conflicts had
by J. Nasibova
US have many small military bases in Central Asia and can add to them more, Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, USA, Nazif M. Shahrani, told Trend.
“Since the first Gulf
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In an increasingly media-driven age, language is everything and is often used by officialdom to tyrannise meaning. With the deaths of millions on its hands since 1945, the US has become the world’s number one terror state.
The Syrian Embassy in Ukraine has said that the Syrian, Ukrainian and Russian authorities are cooperating to ensure the speedy release of Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva, who was abducted by rebels in Syria.
“Our authorities, including our embassy, in cooperation …
Head of the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Industry, Eng. Fares Shihabi, stressed that Aleppo Industry Chamber has decisive evidence on the involvement of the Turkish government in stealing production lines and machines from hundreds of factories in Aleppo city …
Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American …
‘It is the first genocide of the 21th century. Poor Iraq and Iraqis. The silence of the world pushes me to lose faith in humanity.” (Anonymous,)
Incredibly it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang in …
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The owner of Stop NATO, Rick Rozoff, recently spoke to the Voice of Russia about NATO’s global plans and Russian-US relations. In part 2 of our interview Rozoff states that the US has been intentionally baiting and …
By Zhao Jinglun
“Syria is descending into hell,” shouted three super hawks in the U.S. Senate: John McCain of Arizona, Joseph L. Lieberman of Connecticut, and Lindsey G. Graham of South Carolina. It appears that there is no war that …
When Lucmane Délille, Port-au-Prince’s district attorney, summoned former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to appear before him on Wednesday, Jan. 9 to answer patently frivolous complaints, it caused a great awakening of the Lavalas masses, alarming those in Haiti and abroad who …
Until now the course of the crisis has been accurately described according to the five phases identified by our team from May 2006 (GEAB n°5) and completed in February 2009 (GEAB n°32): release, acceleration, impact, decanting and global geopolitical dislocation, …
According to figures released Monday by the European Union statistics agency, Eurostat, industrial output across the 17 countries of the euro zone fell in November for the third successive month.
The 0.3 percent decline for November was worse than forecast …
2013 and the New Scramble for Africa
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January 17 2013
France’s military aggression in Mali is only the latest expression of a renewed Scramble for Africa being undertaken by all of the continent’s former imperialist overlords. This involves not only those powers that directly ruled Africa from the late nineteenth …
We previously documented that American movies, television and news are dominated by the CIA and other government agencies.
The government also spreads propaganda through video games.
By way of example, former CIA director William Colby went to work for …
Forbes has recently published an article about New York Congressman Steve Israel’s promise to ban 3D printed high capacity ammunition magazines. The congressman’s comments come after Defense Distributed, an open source DIY gunsmith group working to manufacture both guns …
Al Qaeda is both a casus belli and mercenary force, deployed by the West against targeted nations. French operations seek to trigger armed conflict in Algeria as well as a possible Western military intervention there as well, with the Mali conflict serving as a pretense.
Currency Wars: Iran to Exclude Dollar, Euro from Foreign Transactions: Minister
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January 17 2013
Iranian Economy Minister Seyed Shamseddin Hosseini said Monday that Tehran plans to exclude the currencies of the Western states, specially US dollar and euro, from its foreign trade transactions, semi-official Fars news agency reported.
“According to the decision made by …
There are awards for everyone. There are the Logies, the Commies, the Tonys, the Theas, the Millies (“They cried with pride”) and now the Shammies.
The Shammies celebrate the finest sham media. “Competition for the 2013 Gold Shammy,” said the …
Rob Kall points out that the military-industrial complex is the winner of the Golden Globe award:
…Homeland won best TV series, best TV actor and actress. It IS a highly entertaining show which actually portrays some of the flaws of
A funeral for Aaron Swartz was held Tuesday at the Central Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park, Illinois. The event overflowed with friends, family, collaborators and those who came to pay tribute to the 26-year-old open Internet activist who took his …
A growing number of American workers are tapping their retirement savings accounts before they retire, due to economic distress. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that more than one in four workers with 401(k) and other retirement plans are cashing them
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BEIRUT – On arrival to Lebanon’s capital city, all seems very functional and normal on the surface, as the city runs business as usual.
Below the surface however, there is a feeling of trepidation, an unspoken collective worry that a …
M23 rebels in DR Congo have threatened to march to the capital and depose the government. UN reports confirm that rebels receive support from key US allies in the region, and Washington’s role in the conflict has become difficult to
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“I don’t think that China’s leaders today want to make compromises with the US. It is unlikely that China will agree to create a program of developing its navy that would satisfy the US. In its turn, the US also
The inhumane sanctions of the United States and its European allies against Iran know no boundaries. At the cost of the lives of thousands of Iranian patients suffering from different types of cancer, thalassemia, hemophilia, HIV/Aids, psychiatric disorders and other …
The Ba’ath Party was made famous in the West by the late Iraqi dictator and one-time ally of the United States Saddam Hussein[1]. It is largely regarded in the West as something to be associated with the most “evil of …
NATO is funding, arming, while simultaneously fighting Al Qaeda from Mali to Syria. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is allied to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) supported by France during NATO's 2011 proxy-invasion of Libya
Whatever is announced by France or the US, reported by the mainstream media, the goal of this new war is no other than stripping yet another country of its natural resources
Critics of President Obama’s 2011 aerial intervention in Libya may recall one of that conflict’s most striking features: the administration’s failure to invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution(WPR). The War Powers Resolution is that tasteless congressional fruit of the …
by Jim Sinclair
According to Handelsblatt, a respected publication, Germany is serious about repatriating significant amounts of gold held outside of Germany, mostly by the Federal Reserve. This sends a message about storing gold near you and taking delivery no
Several German newspapers are reporting a surprising move by the Bundesbank in the aftermath of the “German gold scandal”. Handelsblatt’s sources confirm that a portion of the German gold stored with the New York Fed and the Banque de France
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TOKYO: Nine U.S. F-22 stealth fighters were stationed at the U.S. Air Force’s Kadena base in Japan’s Okinawa for a four-month deployment, local media reported late Monday.
The fighters that arrived at the base Monday were originally based at Langley-Eustis …
The Oscar nominations have been announced and despite much hope on this side of the pond there is no place for Skyfall in the Best Picture category. There is, however, a place for not one but two spy films telling …
History Repeats …
In the classic history of Nazi Germany, They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer writes:
“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions
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by Murray Cooke
On January 3, Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten announced that she will be imposing concessionary contracts on the province’s teachers. This is a drastic attack on collective bargaining rights that the teachers have said they will fight.
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Swartz did as much or more than anyone to make the Internet a thriving open knowledge ecosystem. He strove to keep it that way. He challenged repressive Internet laws.
In what was billed as the last press conference of his first term, US President Barack Obama laid out an agenda for his next term that will be focused on slashing hundreds of billions of dollars from federal health care …
“The people who lived here were killed by democracy.” Writing on the wall of a house in Haditha, Iraq, after the massacre of twenty four people by US Marines, November 2005.
Having reduced Iraq to a state of terror, shambles, …
Veterans for Peace (VFP) adopted the following resolution at their annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, August 2011.
The text of this resolution was sent to members of the US House of Representatives on August 22, 2011.
Impeachment Of President Barack …
Despite evidence over the centuries that torture fails to elicit reliable information – and is criminal as well – apologists for George W. Bush and movies like Zero Dark Thirty continue to perpetuate the myth that torture is a necessary …
The United States continues the constant pounding of the tribal region of North Waziristan in Pakistan.
On January 10, AFP reports that six “militants” allegedly working for al-Qaeda were killed in a drone strike.
This is the seventh drone strike
Reddit co-founder and free speech activist Aaron Swartz killed himself due to government censorship and harassment. (He was probably clinically depressed and apparently committed suicide; no one is alleging that he was murdered.)
Aaron developed RSS, created the architecture …
Aaron Swartz’ passing becomes even more tragic if we do not recognize what he spent his life fighting for, and realize that no matter where we think we stand on the issue of Internet freedom, the interests driving the debate …
The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States. This ought to come as no great surprise, given the
By Liu Sha
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will write a letter to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to call for closer ties in the face of China’s rising maritime power.
The letter will say that China’s frequent patrols
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The major cabinet selections announced by President Barack Obama point to the reactionary character of the policies he will pursue in his second term. His administration will be committed to slashing public spending on programs like Social Security, Medicare and …
The period following WWII in eastern Europe is considered to be a black one, best forgotten. All the pre-war governments had been quasi-fascist dictatorships which either succumbed to the Nazi onslaught (Poland) or actively cooperated with the Germans (Hungary, Romania, …
When the Palestinian leadership won their upgrade to non-member observer status at the United Nations in November, plenty of sceptics on both sides of the divide questioned what practical benefits would accrue to the Palestinians. The doubters have not been …
Voices of protest have been raised in Hollywood against Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, an account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, which endorses the actions of the Central Intelligence Agency, the US military and the systematic use of …
The military operation in Mali launched on January 11 is another vivid example of special activities aimed at recolonization of the African continent. It’s an orderly and consistent capture of new African territories by Western powers. They have got hold …
As a sop to outraged public opinion over Wall Street’s looting of the real economy, criminal banksters are coming under increased scrutiny by federal regulators.
Scrutiny however, is not the same thing as enforcement of laws such as the Bank …
Global Research Editor’s Note
In the light of recent events in Northern Mali, we bring the following April 2012 Global Research article to the attention of our readers.
The recent Coup in Mali by a Army Officer Captain while all …
Global Research Editor’s Note
This article initially published in February 2009 has led to a renewed debate within the Peace movement.
It is worth recalling that Tom Santoni resigned from Veterans For Peace in protest when the impeachment resolution was
Support Iraqi Protests Against the Second Phase of the Occupation
Urgent Call for International Solidarity with the Iraqi Thawra (Revolution)
The International Anti-Occupation Network (IAON)
The International Anti-Occupation Network (IAON) includes among others the BRussells Tribunal, The Spanish Campaign Against …
By Hu Yumin
Washington will have 1,500 to 1,800 sea- and air-based first-strike cruise missiles by 2015 and 2,500 to 3,000 by 2020.
The US aims to combine PGS [Prompt Global Strike] with its space and anti-missile technologies to form …
All climate scientists agree that the sun affects Earth’s climate to some extent. They only disagree about whether or not the effect form the sun is minor compared to man-made causes.
We noted in 2011:
…This week, scientists from
America came to stay. Accelerated withdrawal claims reflect subterfuge. Washington officials and media scoundrels don’t explain. Msinformation and illusion substitute for reality.
Reuters headlined “Obama, Karzai accelerate end of US combat role in Afghanistan.”
“Obama’s determin(ed) to wind down a
by Abdullah Mansoor
Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), in its new report titled “The Hands of Cruelty – Abuses by Armed Forces and Taliban in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas” claimed that millions of people in Pakistan’s north-western tribal areas were …
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rule defining a “qualified mortgage”, which was announced on Thursday, creates vast new opportunities for the nation’s biggest banks to engage in predatory lending practices with impunity.
While the mainstream media describes the rule
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