By Michael Grabell, Dafna Linzer and Jeff Larson Iraq has shut its airspace to four Syrian flights scheduled to pick up attack helicopters that had been repaired in Russia, the spokesman to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said Tuesday. Syria has failed several times since June to retrieve the refurbished helicopters from Russia, and […]
By Michael Grabell, Dafna Linzer and Jeff Larson Iraq has shut its airspace to four Syrian flights scheduled to pick up attack helicopters that had been repaired in Russia, the spokesman to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said Tuesday. Syria has failed several times since June to retrieve the refurbished helicopters from Russia, and […]
(CHICAGO) — Israel ranks among the world’s most ruthless states. It qualifies for rogue state status. It spurns the U.N. Charter, major treaties and other international law. It violates its own. It gets away with murder because world leaders mattering most do nothing. It’s contemptuous of anyone not Jewish. Arabs are considered subhuman. Militancy, belligerence […]
(CHICAGO) — Israel ranks among the world’s most ruthless states. It qualifies for rogue state status. It spurns the U.N. Charter, major treaties and other international law. It violates its own. It gets away with murder because world leaders mattering most do nothing. It’s contemptuous of anyone not Jewish. Arabs are considered subhuman. Militancy, belligerence […]
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is reportedly looking into political asylum in South America, according to a Ha’aretz report, though Syria’s Venezuela ambassador has denied the claims. According to the Israeli newspaper, Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad had meetings with local leaders in Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador this past week, and was carrying classified personal letters […]
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is reportedly looking into political asylum in South America, according to a Ha’aretz report, though Syria’s Venezuela ambassador has denied the claims. According to the Israeli newspaper, Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad had meetings with local leaders in Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador this past week, and was carrying classified personal letters […]
(MintPress) – On Monday, the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for Israel to open its secretive nuclear arsenal to inspection by members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Israel, the lone nuclear power in the Middle East, has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, despite 174 nations calling […]
(MintPress) – On Monday, the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for Israel to open its secretive nuclear arsenal to inspection by members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Israel, the lone nuclear power in the Middle East, has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, despite 174 nations calling […]
(CHICAGO) — In America, money power controls elections. People have no say. Each party replicates the other. Venezuela is different. Voters take full advantage. They choose real democrats over fake ones. It shows in how Venezuelans are governed. On Oct. 7, they re-elected Chavez overwhelmingly. On Dec. 16, they’ll vote again in regional elections. At […]
(CHICAGO) — In America, money power controls elections. People have no say. Each party replicates the other. Venezuela is different. Voters take full advantage. They choose real democrats over fake ones. It shows in how Venezuelans are governed. On Oct. 7, they re-elected Chavez overwhelmingly. On Dec. 16, they’ll vote again in regional elections. At […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a splash with a hand-drawn cartoon of a bomb, its fuse lit, at the podium of the UN’s General Assembly in September. He drew, in red magic marker, a thick red line. This, he said, is the red line the world should set before Iran on its nuclear development. The ploy […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a splash with a hand-drawn cartoon of a bomb, its fuse lit, at the podium of the UN’s General Assembly in September. He drew, in red magic marker, a thick red line. This, he said, is the red line the world should set before Iran on its nuclear development. The ploy […]
By Chris Woods and Alice K Ross Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq have seen almost 1,200 drone strikes over the past five years, according to new data released to the Bureau. The information, much of it classified until now, shows that US Air Force drones carried out most of the 1,168 attacks. However […]
By Chris Woods and Alice K Ross Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq have seen almost 1,200 drone strikes over the past five years, according to new data released to the Bureau. The information, much of it classified until now, shows that US Air Force drones carried out most of the 1,168 attacks. However […]