India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively. Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, or 40 percent […]
Geopolitics
Michael Vincent © 2012 While I share every thinking person’s growing concern over the net, and the intellectual freedom being threatened, it might be as well to highlight the recall motions that are flooding into state capitals and Washington, as I write these words. Thankfully, there are a large number of […]
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` There is strong evidence that NATO carried out war crimes in its eight-month war for regime-change in Libya, according to a report released Thursday by Middle East human rights groups. The United Nations resolution authorizing “all necessary measures” to protect civilians was utilized as the justification for military […]
[ The US recently sent similar troop numbers to Kuwait – and now this ] The United States has sent some 12,000 soldiers to Libya, in the first phase of deployments to the oil-rich North African nation. According to Asharq Alawsat, the troops landed in the eastern oil port […]
An Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops Friday in eastern Afghanistan and a helicopter crash killed six more NATO service members in the south, officials said, marking a particularly deadly 24 hours for coalition forces. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that France is suspending its training […]
[youtube]ngDDJndmFU8[/youtube] Press TV viewers in the UK can continue to watch the news channel via the following satellites or by visiting the following websites despite the British Office of Communications (Ofcom) removing the channel from the Sky platform. [ … which they did for some reason … ] You can […]
Assad’s popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west’s propaganda war Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favor of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Especially as the finding would go against the dominant narrative […]