Introduction There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police…
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much suffered by so many due to so few Netanyahu at AIPAC March 5, 2012 “Returning to tomorrow’s crucial meeting between Netanyahu and Obama,…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/british-mps-drinking-culture-113/ibfed9dd971ec13b3f0252eece5da1f8c_drunk-mps.flv] British drinking culture is famous worldwide, being successfully exported abroad with countless pubs in seemingly every city. Mixing alcohol with political tradition, though, is something Britain mercifully reserves for internal use. British MPs are…
“The crisis is at its end” is no longer a relieving statement made by some political analysts, as the crisis is really close to its end. Baba Amro is now under the control of the Syrian army… and so are the armed groups of which a big number escaped to the Lebanese borders dubbing their retreat “tactical”. Around 700 Arab and Western gunmen surrendered in Baba Amro, well-informed sources told Al-Manar website, adding that “huge and critical surprises will be uncovered in the coming few days… such as the kinds of arms seized, as well as the military tactics the armed groups followed, and the sides that supervised the operations.” The sources further assured to the news website that the security operation in Homs will be over in a maximum of five to eight days.
The world has been left stunned by a series of events that have recently unfolded in the West: the United States’ credit rating has been downgraded for the first time ever; the sovereign debt crisis…
Europe will need to pile up its toxic debt (AFP Photo / STR) A relief package for all of Europe would mean vacuuming up all of its toxic debt into one big pile and letting…
British and Qatari troops preparing military incursion through Turkey According to Aviation Week, Syria’s “newly improved, long-range surveillance and intelligence-gathering facilities” represent an obstacle to an Israeli attack on Iran. Focussing on the cooperation between Syria…
Putin’s election-eve attack against Washington and its western allies for exporting “rocket-bomb democracy” indirectly targets India too ==== [quote from the body of The Hindu article] The veto Russia slapped jointly with China on two…
The Obama administration is moving to provide direct assistance to the internal opposition in Syria for the first time, marking a shift in U.S. policy toward a more aggressive plan to help oust President Bashar…
“These diaries are dedicated to the people of Iraq and to all others who have suffered the crippling effect of sanctions.” (Nuha al-Radi, 1941-2004.) With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle…