Source: CNN The US Special Forces raid in central Yemen on January 29 is further evidence of two things: al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) remains a formidable, resilient enemy — and is more deeply entrenched in Yemen’s tribal society than ever. The raid, in the province of al-Bayda, […]
DAWN.COM — UPDATED Jan 26, 2017# The following is an excerpt from a declassified document released online by America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of a searchable database on its website Reading Room. Declassified documents were previously only available to the public at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. […]
The arc of history is long, but it won’t ever judge the president’s Syria policy kindly. BY DAVID GREENBERG DECEMBER 29, 2016 Barack Obama’s impending departure from the White House has put many Americans in an elegiac mood. Despite an average approval rating of only 48 percent — the lowest, […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Armed men wearing YPG uniform identified by Syrian Democratic forces as US special operations ride in the back of a pickup truck in the village of Fatisah in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa on May 25, 2016. (AFP Photo) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is right in […]
As Robin Raphel worked for the State Department in Pakistan, her brand of traditional diplomacy ran into the new realities of covert surveillance. The collision turned her life upside down BY ADAM ENTOUS AND DEVLIN BARRETT THE LAST DIPLOMAT Just before 8 on the morning of Oct. 21, 2014, Robin […]
Jessica Hartogs, Special to CNBC.com Tuesday, 8 Mar 2016 | 7:56 AM ETCNBC.com The prolonged conflict in Syria has already had a devastating economic impact but could yet spiral to cost the country more than $1 trillion, according to a new report. The report published Tuesday by children’s charity World […]
When Samantha talked about ‘barbarism against civilians’ in Aleppo, I remembered climbing over the dead Palestinian civilians massacred at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982, slaughtered by […]
Our political masters are in league with the Syrian rebels, and for the same reason as the rebels kidnap their victims – money Robert Fisk @indyvoices Western politicians, “experts” and journalists are going to have to reboot their stories over the next few days now that Bashar al-Assad’s army has […]
By AFP – Dec 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Iraqi Army ride in a tank during clashes with the Daesh terror group militants, south of Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday (Reuters photo) WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office and step down as commander-in-chief […]
Tearing up the Iran nuclear deal would be ‘disastrous’ and ‘the height of folly’, John Brennan says Adam Withnall @adamwithnall 0:09 / 0:24 The director of the CIA has warned Donald Trump it would be “disastrous” to tear up the US’s nuclear deal with Iran, after the President-elect pledged to […]
By John W. Whitehead Global Research, November 23, 2016 The Rutherford Institute 21 November 2016 “We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s […]
Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History By Victor Marchetti In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies’ resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]
When I was hauled into the local police station 25 years ago, a lonely copper stood outside. Today the place is ringed by barbed wire, armed guards and iron anti-rocket screens Robert Fisk in Diyabarkir @indyvoices ‘The Kurds are Turkey’s enemy – just as they always were’ The fine black stone […]
LINDA HEARD | Published — Monday 3 October 2016 Saudi Arabia’s response to legislation permitting the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Kingdom for compensation, which US President Barack Obama has characterized as setting a “dangerous precedent”, has been diplomatically low-key. “The erosion of sovereign immunity will have a […]
Sep 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs Syria’s civil war is the most dangerous and destructive crisis on the planet. Since early 2011, hundreds of thousands have died; around 10 million Syrians have been displaced; Europe has been convulsed with Daesh terror and the political fallout of refugees; and […]
August 30, 2016 Ediotr’s Note; We found this analysis of why Western powers got involved in the Syrian war in EcoWatch. We then asked Tikkun contributing editor Stephen Zunes for his response. Both are printed below. One thing stands out for us: though Obama assured me when he met with me […]
By Steven Sahiounie Global Research, August 19, 2016 The day before September 11, 2001 was like any normal day in New York City. September 10, 2001 was unaware of the earthshaking events which would happen the next day. Similarly, one might think the day before the violence broke out […]
By Garikai Chengu Global Research, August 27, 2016 Incisive article originally published by GR in September 2014. Terror attacks or mass shootings allegedly perpetrated by the ISIS, the question that should be asked: who are the State sponsors of Al Qaeda and the ISIS? (M.Ch. GR Editor). Much like […]