MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN SCOTT YOUNGBLOOD/U.S. NAVY “Having an unmanned service vehicle out there that could have interceded before the bomb got as close as it did would have helped prevent that situation,”…
Category: Mid-East
Israel squirms and wriggles like a worm on a fishhook over the Turkish trial into the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for Gaza. Tel Aviv has called…
Most irrelevant election in US history comes and goes as long-planned regime change using Al Qaeda death squads against Syria continues unabated. Almost as if to affirm the absolute irrelevance of elections in the “democratic” West, expanded conflict promised by the perceived “hawkish” Republican candidate Mitt Romney is proceeding immediately ahead under the re-elected President Barack Obama. Aside from superficial window dressing via an elaborate array of proxies through which US cash and weapons will flow, more direct military aid, including securing a defacto no-fly zone over parts of northern Syria using US-made Patriot missile batteries is now being discussed.
I predict this will become the latest steaming pile of neocon warmonger outrage over nada. Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf last…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says an Iranian military plane fired upon, but did not hit, an unarmed U.S. drone aircraft a week ago in what a spokesman said was international airspace over the Persian…
The 29th of October marks Turkey´s Republic Day and the victory of the Turkish revolution on 29 October 1923. The day is normally celebrated by millions of Turks who commemorate the victory of the Turkish…
NEWS ANALYSIS (The Borowitz Report)—One day after the costliest Presidential election in U.S. history, Americans awoke to the ugly realization that the nation had spent $2.5 billion with absolutely nothing to show for it. “Four…
To humiliate and degrade: Impressions of Gaza Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly…
There is a solution for peace in Syria. All we need is the will to implement it. Yang Jiechi has imagined a way of avoiding France’s hostility to the implementation of the Geneva agreement. The…
Now that Obama has secured another four years in the White House, the British prime minister David Cameron is poised to tell him that his top priority should be intervention in Syria. Cameron said that “with…