Turkey’s muscle flexing vis-a-vis Syria provides the newest fuse for the perennially unstable Middle East. While the Syrians rushed to offer a rare apology to Ankara over an errant mortar round that killed five Turkish…
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Days of Syrian/Turkish border incidents threaten further escalation into something more serious. Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants fired mortar rounds on Turkish territory from Syrian locations they control. Assad was wrongfully blamed for their provocation….
The Maimed: On Eleven Years of War in Afghanistan Chris Hedges gave this talk Sunday night in New York City at a protest denouncing the 11th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. The event, at…
Censored Op-ed taken down from the Jerusalem Post site because of the Christian Zionist lobby. Christian Zionists increasingly act as if they were religious Jews until the End. They refer to the year 5773; many…
Mitt Romney is signalling a more active policy on the Syrian uprising than Barack Obama, calling explicitly for weapons deliveries to rebel forces and framing the conflict in geostrategic terms as one which can lead…
Venezuela’s Victory Over Wall Street Venezuela looks to have effectively outmaneuvered Western designs to overthrow national sovereignty, but many challenges lay ahead. Venezuela has provided the world with a successful model to counter the…
Syria Launches “Talaqi TV” & “Syriana FM” (Omar al-Shaar | Dp-news -Sana) “Media battles are the most dangerous due to their global influence” DAMASCUS- Syria`s Prime Minister, Dr. Wael al-Halqi inaugurated Saturday the…
Over the past 40 years, the Federal Reserve has been force-feeding the world the idea that its printing press puts out more valuable paper than anyone else’s. This is, of course, because in 1971 it…
… World: UN Sterilization Campaigns In Developing Countries Accelerating Economists claim that overpopulation is causing poverty in underdeveloped nations. In the Philippines, there is an initiative to control the burgeoning population by forcing family planning…
ICE Case Studies Diaoyu Islands Dispute I. CASE BACKGROUND 1. Abstract The on-going sovereignty dispute between Japan, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands [1] raises…