Forgotten faces: Japan’s comfort women TOKYO — Dozens of Japanese lawmakers on Wednesday paid their respects at a war shrine vilified as a symbol JAPAN’S main opposition party elected former Prime Minister Shinzo…
Category: Global Issues
Some of the commercial fallout from Japan’s ‘purchase’ of the DiaoyouTai. In total, the lost sales for Japanese firms in China, in the July to September period, would appear to total in the billions of…
VIENNA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times and China’s claim to their sovereignty is legal and reasonable, says an Austrian expert on international law….
Israel and the pro-Zionist lobby in the US have”a super control” over Turkey which has heavily influenced the recent tensions between Ankara and Damascus, an analyst tells Press TV. “We have a very pro-Israel,…
Nuclear Debates The Moscow conference on the Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) took place on September 6-8, 2012. The nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran and the old idea in a new…
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan The leader of the main Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has called Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “traitor” to the country, accusing him of protecting the…
According to U.S. officials, Israel is training and supporting Iranian terrorists who are trying to topple the Iranian government. Those Israeli-funded terrorists have faked documents to falsely indicate that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. 1 Israel has admitted to previous use of false flag attacks to justify war against Middle Eastern nations. For example, Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).
A Syrian rebel commander and a group of fighters told an opposition meeting on Wednesday they had decided to abandon the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad and return to the regular army. “We have…
An Al-Qaeda operative who arrived in Syria with Western officials. Why change a recipe that works? During the Vietnam War, a sign over one of the U.S. army bases read “Killing Is Our Business,…
Taliban militants claim they have killed at least seven US soldiers in western Afghanistan, Press TV reports. The soldiers were killed on Friday when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated and damaged a tank manned…