Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation. Defense Department documents released to ProPublica give the fullest picture yet of the arms sales: The list includes ammunition, combat vehicle parts, communications equipment, Blackhawk helicopters, and an unidentified missile system. (Read the documents.) […]
Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation. Defense Department documents released to ProPublica give the fullest picture yet of the arms sales: The list includes ammunition, combat vehicle parts, communications equipment, Blackhawk helicopters, and an unidentified missile system. (Read the documents.) […]
President Obama has allegedly said in private that he doubts Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that the nation “doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” Bloomberg reporter Jeffrey Goldberg has saidthat the two allies are on shaky ground as Obama heads into his second and final term and Netanyahu is up for re-election. […]
President Obama has allegedly said in private that he doubts Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that the nation “doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” Bloomberg reporter Jeffrey Goldberg has saidthat the two allies are on shaky ground as Obama heads into his second and final term and Netanyahu is up for re-election. […]
(MintPress) – More than 200 activists were forcefully evicted from a tent village erected in the West Bank Sunday. The protest action, carried out mostly by Palestinians residing in neighboring towns, was designed to block construction of illegal settlements on land near Jerusalem that will all but end the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state on […]
(MintPress) – More than 200 activists were forcefully evicted from a tent village erected in the West Bank Sunday. The protest action, carried out mostly by Palestinians residing in neighboring towns, was designed to block construction of illegal settlements on land near Jerusalem that will all but end the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state on […]
(CHICAGO) — Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall Street Journal headlined, “An Internet Activist Commits Suicide.” New York’s medical examiner announced death by “hang(ing) himself in his Brooklyn apartment.” Lingering suspicions remain. Why would someone with so much to give end it all this way? He was one of the […]
(CHICAGO) — Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall Street Journal headlined, “An Internet Activist Commits Suicide.” New York’s medical examiner announced death by “hang(ing) himself in his Brooklyn apartment.” Lingering suspicions remain. Why would someone with so much to give end it all this way? He was one of the […]
(NAMIBIA) MintPress – On Jan. 1, 18 countries took up seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council, pledging to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights” — a promise that many rights groups are cautious to believe based on the poor human rights records of several elected countries. The council’s […]
(NAMIBIA) MintPress – On Jan. 1, 18 countries took up seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council, pledging to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights” — a promise that many rights groups are cautious to believe based on the poor human rights records of several elected countries. The council’s […]
(CHICAGO) — Israel under Netanyahu reflects Arundhadi Roy’s view. Her book titled “Field Notes on Democracy” explained. “What kind of India do they want,” she asked? “A limbless, headless, soulless torso left bleeding under the butcher’s clever with a flag driven deep into her mutilated heart?” She compared Hindu right wing persecution of Muslims to […]
(CHICAGO) — Israel under Netanyahu reflects Arundhadi Roy’s view. Her book titled “Field Notes on Democracy” explained. “What kind of India do they want,” she asked? “A limbless, headless, soulless torso left bleeding under the butcher’s clever with a flag driven deep into her mutilated heart?” She compared Hindu right wing persecution of Muslims to […]
The Onion, America’s finest news source, reported recently that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would exercise Israel’s “longstanding, constitutionally granted veto power over American policy if U.S. lawmakers confirmed retired Senator Chuck Hagel as the United States’ next Secretary of Defense.” Tongue only partly in cheek, the satirical magazine noted that Hagel lacked the “nine-tenths” majority […]
The Onion, America’s finest news source, reported recently that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would exercise Israel’s “longstanding, constitutionally granted veto power over American policy if U.S. lawmakers confirmed retired Senator Chuck Hagel as the United States’ next Secretary of Defense.” Tongue only partly in cheek, the satirical magazine noted that Hagel lacked the “nine-tenths” majority […]
