Office of Net Assessment Hires Booz Allen Hamilton to Conduct Study on Africa As the corporate media focuses on the current war drive against the Middle Eastern nation of Syria, Washington’s militarist policies toward Africa…
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Several newspapers claim that U.S. Secretary of State Kerry said that there is proof of sarin gas used in the recent Syrian incident. These claims are false. McClatchy headlines: Kerry says it was sarin gas in…
The day before the scheduled American attack on Syria, Israel’s Prime Minster was lonely in his office. He didn’t remember such a hot summer, but he wasn’t getting younger. Yet, he still remembered intriguing remarks…
President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on the Syrian crisis, while on a visit to Vladivostok in the weekend, were his first ones since the crisis began snowballing over the United States’ moves to launch a militarily attack against the Middle Eastern country. What is striking from the Kremlin’s transcript is that Putin spoke far more extensively than what the media reports suggested, and, second, he spoke on virtually every aspect of the explosive situation. The timing is very important, too, as less than a week remains for the major international event G20 summit which is scheduled to be held in St. Petersburg on Thursday, bringing together the world’s top leaders, including President Barack Obama around a conference table.
On Saturday, August 31, President Barack Obama—in the words of the New York Times—”stunned the world” by giving a speech in which he promised to give the U.S. Congress time to weigh in…
The president is celebrated for seeking a vote on his latest war even as his aides make clear it has no binding effect It’s a potent sign of how low the American political bar is…
President Obama announced this weekend that he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress when it returned from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this…
Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria’s United Nations representative, speaks to the media at UN headquarters in New York on November 29, 2012 Syria has asked the United Nations to try to “prevent any aggression” against…
Russia is rejecting American evidence of chemical weapons use inSyria as “inconclusive” and urging the United States to declassify all of its intelligence. “What we were shown before and recently by our American partners, as well as…
St. Petersburg, Russia (CNN) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized Western nations for failing to ensure that weapons it plans to supply to Syrian rebels do not fall into the hands of…