Afghan President Hamid Karzai Thursday revealed that Washington wants to maintain nine US military bases scattered across the country after the formal deadline for the withdrawal of US and NATO coalition forces at the end of 2014 by Bill Van Auken (WSWS) In a speech delivered at Kabul University, Karzai stressed that he was amenable to the US demand, indicating […]
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society by Colin Todhunter When attempting to analyse what is happening in the world, it is important to appreciate past economic, social and political processes that led us to where we are today. Understanding the tectonic plates of history that led certain countries towards fascism, communism […]
America sank down another foot this week into the Syrian quicksand. Israel is putting the next stage of the conflict’s tactics on display, not only to the world but to the Syrian military with its last two strikes by Jim Dean for PressTV As the rebel assault has ground to a halt, and the superior manpower of the Syrian army […]
If western politicians were really interested in saving lives, they would use their leverage to negotiate a settlement by Seumas Milne If anyone had doubts that Syria’s gruesome civil war is already spinning into a wider Middle East conflict, the events of the past few days should have laid them to rest. Most ominous was Israel’s string of aerial attacks […]
The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and the Council on Foreign Relations in the UK are comprised of a group of elites who although unaccountable shape Britain’s foreign policy by PressTV The post-1945 world order, which was marked by closeness between Britain and the United States, was mainly constructed by Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy involving […]
Financial Empire may have reduced us all to debt prisoners, but we can still become the social protagonists of history’s greatest-ever prison break by Jerome Roos Let there be no doubt about it: we live in the era of Financial Empire. Unlike the military conquests that drove the territorial expansions of the empires of old, contemporary Financial Empire consists not […]
China has slammed Tel Aviv’s recent act of aggression against Syria as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Shanghai for a visit by PressTV “We are opposed to the use of force and believe that the sovereignty of any country should be respected,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said at a press conference on Monday. On Sunday, Syria […]
By Craig Murray Israel’s massive air strikes against Syria are, beyond argument, illegal. There is no provision in international law that enables you to bomb another country because that country is in internal chaos. Yet the reporting on the BBC, and indeed throughout the mainstream media, makes no mention of their illegality, and makes no mention of the people killed. […]
What is it that makes young men, reasonably well educated, in good health and nice looking, with long lives ahead of them, use powerful explosives to murder complete strangers because of political beliefs? by William Blum I’m speaking about American military personnel of course, on the ground, in the air, or directing drones from an office in Nevada. Do not […]
Syria says Israel has effectively declared war after its planes bombed targets in Damascus, the second airstrikes in as many days. Egypt has condemned the Israeli airstrikes on Syria, with the Arab League also demanding action from the UN Security Council. For more on this RT speaks with Asia Times Online correspondent Pepe Escobar.
Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade Washington’s Hidden Agenda: Restore the Drug Trade by Prof Michel Chossudovsky Author’s Note In the course of the last three years, there has been a surge in Afghan opium production. The Vienna based UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reveals that poppy cultivation in 2012 extends over an area of more than 154,000 hectares, […]
For Washington and its allies, the real red line in Syria is the defeat of Syrian opposition fighters. Once the opposition fighters start losing battles — and they do — alarm bells will start ringing in Western capitals by Mahir Zeynalov Last year, Washington drew a line in the sand and said once the Syrian regime uses chemical weapons, calculations will […]
