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South West Asia
It’s our second visit to Salah Eldien ~ the Syrian army has restored order here. Foreign backed armed groups have declared a tactical withdrawl blaming it on their sponsoring countries for shortage of weapons, manpower and ammunition. But there is something different in this visit. [youtube]QTkF287SvSQ[/youtube] We didn’t have to […]
Tensions are as high as ever as high on the Turkish Syrian border as Ankara is heavily increasing its troops along its southern frontiers. This week Turkey threatened Syria with an appropriate retaliation after the Syrian forces shot down a Turkish fighter jet. Syria says it has downed the plane […]
After the US military tried to prevent access, western reporters have been able to interview Afghan Massacre witnesses who report multiple soldiers assisted by helicopter support. The witnesses give first hand accounts saying that a group of 20 soldiers participated in the attack and were assisted by a helicopter that […]
It will be interesting to see how the Israeli government reacts to this announcement, given that their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken quite a hard line on the issue, even going as far as to call renewed nuclear talks with Iran a “trap.” Furthermore, he claimed that the only […]
[ A B-1 bomber taking off from the recently ‘stolen-from-it’s-former-inhabitants-for-an-Anglo-airbase’ island of Diego Garcia ] Avoiding another war of choice will require a media that digs beyond agenda-driven analysis and prevents the debate from being curtailed. It will require a media that doesn’t permit a question of life and death […]
The issue is not about hummus, chocolate bars or Dead Sea vacations. It is about civil society taking full responsibility for its own action ( or lack of ). The issue is not exactly about Israeli products either, but rather about how even a seemingly innocent decision like buying Israeli […]
Robert Naiman: ‘Nuclear weapons’ is just a stand in for a range of issues as to why Israel and the US are trying to weaken Iran’s role in the region. [youtube]MjWD-qKXhrU[/youtube]
It’s an intrigue befitting the machinations of classical colonialism in past centuries, such as the Sykes-Picot carve-up of the Middle Eastern Levant territories, or the betrayal of the Arabs after World War I, or the theft of Mesopotamia’s oil by British capitalists. Only this time, it is Arabs who are […]
The recent talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have reached a standstill, with the Israeli negotiators refusing to present borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state. [ Israel can’t present its own borders to anyone – because it is constantly expanding them. Outward. This is the root cause of […]