The epochal Israeli bombing inside Syria on October 05 has practically rendered the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between the two countries irrelevant. By bombing the purportedly 'militant training camp', as portrayed by Israel, near Damascus, the latest act of...
Can America “Spin” Away Anti-U.S. Hatred in Islamic Countries?
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE EMPIRE
Remember Ali Abbas, the cute little tyke whose arms were blown off by his American "liberators"? He's calling down vengeance on the heads of his tormentors: "Ali Abbas, the 13-year-old boy who lost both his arms and much of his family in the bombing of Iraq, says he...
The Iraq Dilemma:
An Illegitimate Occupation
The war in Iraq by no means ceased on May 1 when President Bush announced the end of major hostilities. It simply entered a new and ominous phase. It is the war that keeps on killing. Not least, it keeps on killing American troops. As long as U.S. body bags keep...
FAKE ‘GOOD NEWS’ FROM IRAQ
The lying cretins who gave us the Iraq war aren't content that our soldiers are sitting ducks for terrorists throughout the Middle East – now they're using them as props in a propaganda campaign designed to convince the American people that "progress" is being...
Chinese Big Bosses Rule – with the Backing of Beijing
I spent this past week smiling and clinking wine glasses with a multi-millionaire from the town of GuangYan – roughly two hours north of the capital by highway. This particular boss is one of a breed of new rich that rule the "small" towns and cities outside of...
National Endowment for Democracy: Paying to Make Enemies of America
The misnamed National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is nothing more than a costly program that takes US taxpayer funds to promote favored politicians and political parties abroad. What the NED does in foreign countries, through its recipient organizations the National...
We Report, You Get It Wrong
The more commercial television news you watch, the more wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq War and its aftermath, according to a major new study released in Washington on Thursday. And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News...
Israel Defends Itself
Reading the New York Post Letters page is like smoking opium, without the body high. It seems so surreal, so removed from reality, that I wonder if the letter writers are real people or simply constructs. The Letters from 7 October, "Israel's Right to Take the War to...
US WAR PROPAGANDA IS PATHETIC
The U.S. government is launching a public relations blitz designed to show the American people that they shouldn't believe the evidence right in front of their eyes, because our success (or lack of it) in Iraq is all in how you look at it. The President has complained...