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 […]
ŞEYMA ERAZ@seymaeraz ISTANBUL Seeking to consolidate economic cooperation, Turkey took action to restore ties with Russia, whose economy is in deep recession, and Israel, wich seeks to realize its potential, through energy projects in mutually beneficial deals Turkey took two steps this week to recover its diplomatic relations with two […]
Media outlets in both countries have revealed that a meeting between senior Turkish and Israeli officials is expected to be held in Turkey on June 26—and that shortly after, an agreement is likely to be signed and go into effect. For two of America’s closest allies in the Middle […]
In this Saturday photo provided by Egypt’s state news agency MEAN, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi, third left, and his delegation meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, and an Egyptian delegation, in Cairo on Saturday. (MEAN via AP) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Sunday 30 August 2015 CAIRO: Italian energy […]
AFP By Laurent Lozano August 13, 2015 9:00 AM Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced a major deal between his government and a consortium including US firm Noble Energy on natural gas production in the Mediterranean Sea. The agreement is aimed at ending months of […]
by Raed Omari | Dec 16, 2014 | 23:49 MP Mahmoud Kharabsheh (second left) is among signatories to a memo calling for a no-confidence motion in the government (Photo by Osama Agarbeh) AMMAN — A planned gas deal with Israel is causing considerable damage to relations between the executive and […]
by Seymour M. Hersh You are invited to read this free essay from the London Review of Books. Subscribe now to access every article from every fortnightly issue of the London Review of Books, including the entire LRB archive of over 12,500 essays and reviews. Barack Obama did not tell […]
By Sharmine Narwani and Radwan Mortada A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: “Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide.” When asked who he believed […]
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc),- Chemicals, which were used in a chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians in the Khan al-Asal district of Aleppo in March 2013, have been delivered to the insurgents by two Qatari military officers. The Qatari officers transported the chemicals through Turkey. Turkish authorities had foreknowledge and approved […]
White House makes miraculous discovery to distract from domestic scandals Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com June 14, 2013 Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President […]
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times. AMMAN — Egypt has agreed to boost Jordan’s gas supplies, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Alaa Batayneh announced on Tuesday, ending a months-long dispute […]
Source: Asia Society By Liz Flora Leaders from the countries on the front lines of climate change assailed the “inertia” of the world’s richer nations, and warned of grave consequences ahead for their own countries, when they convened at Asia Society New York today for the launch of a new […]
Source: The Herald Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago. The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse […]