One of the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command is located in a basement in central Damascus by Nadezhda Kevorkova All secrecy measures are there: one cannot drive through the area; hidden guerillas everywhere, and several dozen CCTV cameras. This is the Palestinian group whose headquarters and weapons were seized in December last […]
How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption by Dilip Hiro Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible explanation of why American nation-building failed there. No wonder. To do so, the U.S. would […]
Under the title ‘Fallujah’s children’s ‘genetic damage’ that old war horse ‘literally’ of the BBC’s foreign propaganda service, John Simpson, manages not to mention the phrase ‘depleted uranium’ when allegedly reporting on the alarming rise in birth defects that include cancer, leukaemia and a horrific rise in child mortality since the US demolished the city of Fallujah in 2004 by […]
What is Behind the US-North Korea Conflict? What’s happening between the U.S. and North Korea to produce such headlines this week as “Korean Tensions Escalate,” and “North Korea Threatens U.S.”? by Jack A. Smith The New York Times reported March 30: “This week, North Korea’s young leader, Kim Jung-un, ordered his underlings to prepare for a missile attack on the […]
In Moscow, the pro-western intelligentsia see the war in Syria as a distant conflict in which the Kremlin has aligned the country with the wrong side to maintain a useless naval base in Tartus by Thierry Meyssan Conversely, Putin sees the war as an episode of a conflict which, by virtue of the “Brzezinski doctrine”, has pitted since 1978 the […]
The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War by Chris Hedges (Truthdig). Some claimed they had opposed the war when they had not. Others among “Bush’s useful idiots” argued that they had merely acted in good faith on the information available; if they […]
So, the Arab League openly takes a page out of NATO’s book and proposes to break international law by taking sides in an internal conflict in a sovereign state, Syria by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey The Arab League leaders probably do not notice it in their haste to lick the boots of the western masters who have always kicked their people, but […]
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea stands out. But it is not because the secretive Stalinist regime is a nuclear pariah threatening global security, as the Western corporate media would have us believe by Finian Cunningham No, North Korea stands out for being a beacon of rationality and, incredible as it may seem, peace. Bear in mind the following features: […]
Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene by Felicity Arbuthnot Why should we hear about body bags and deaths … I mean, it’s not relevant, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that …” (Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, Good Morning America, 18th March 2003) In these days of the tenth […]
A Syrian’s Perspective: Bashar al-Assad’s Democratic Movement by Arabi Souri Bashar al-Assad has recently been demonized by the mainstream and so-called alternative media who claim that he is a brutal dictator. Actually Bashar is a reformer who has done much to further the causes of democracy and freedom. It is the opposition and their foreign supporters who represent the most […]
Was the Real Purpose of the Iraq War to Restrict Oil … So As to Raise Oil Prices? by Washington’s Blog U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, 4 Star General John Abizaid, Fed boss Alan Greenspan, President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bush speechwriter David Frum, key war architect John Bolton, and a high-level National Security Council […]
A Taboo Subject for the Corporate Media by BSN Editor Finding the important stories within the mainstream media is never an easy task. When the story is critical of corporate or state power that task is almost impossible, the mainstream media tend to play down or as in this case, not report it at all (with the honourable exception of […]
