Archive for May, 2010
Live Blog of Israeli Terrorism and Piracy on the Gaza Flotilla
Promised Land | By Noam Sheizaf | 1 June 2010 Death at Sea | the attack on the Gaza flotilla (live blogging) -- Updated to: 2:50 AM 1 June 2010 Jump to: Updated to 2:50 AM 1 June 2010 Original Post (to 6:45 PM 31 May 2010) 2:50 AM: finally, going to sleep. I will post at least another media round up in the morning. 2:05 AM: the finger [...]
Iran, Pakistan finalize gas pipeline agreement
MehrNews | Tehran | 29 May 2010 TEHRAN -- Islamabad and Tehran have finalized a deal for the construction of a pipeline to pump Iranian natural gas to Pakistan. The deal was signed by Reza Kasaeizadeh, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Export Company, and Pakistan’s Petroleum Minister Naveed Qamar on Friday evening in [...]
Coalition Soldiers Execute Handcuffed Afghan Boys
Truthout | By Dave Lindorff | 11 May 2010 Afghanistan's My Lai Massacre When Charlie Company's Lt. William Calley ordered and encouraged his men to rape, maim and slaughter over 400 men, women and children in My Lai in Vietnam back in 1968, there were at least four heroes who tried to stop him or bring him and higher officers to justice. One [...]
Asif Zardari Richer than Queen Elizabeth II
The Independent | By David Usborne | 19 May 2010 Rich and powerful: Obama and the global super-elite The US President's bank balance has been buoyant since he took office. But he is still some way short of rivalling the very richest world leaders Now the nation knows. That doggy in the White House window is worth $1,600 (£1,100). Pretty [...]
McChrystal Fails to Clear, Much Less Hold, Marjah
McClatchy | By Dion Nissenbaum | 24 May 2010 McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign MARJAH, Afghanistan — Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top allied military commander in Afghanistan, sat gazing at maps of Marjah as a Marine battalion commander asked him for more time to oust Taliban fighters from a longtime [...]
Vietnam and the Bush-Obama Wars
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 28 May 2010 Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’ Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam By Gordon M. Goldstein Holt, 300 pp., $16.00 (paper) The debate over foreign policy that culminated in President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on December 1, 2009, concerns a war [...]
Covering Faisal Shahzad: How Israeli-Indian Media Influence Misleads the American People
Dissident Voice | By Maidhc Ó Cathail | 26 May 2010 Framing Pakistan How the Pro-Israel Media Enables India’s Surrogate Warfare “We have very little doubt that the Indians and the Israelis, that are all over Afghanistan with German passports pretending to be military contractors, are operating 17 camps along the Taliban regions [...]
Sometimes conspiracy theories are true
The American Conservative | By Alexander Cockburn | 1 July 2010 Unlike the French or the Italians, for whom conspiracies are an integral part of government activity, acknowledged by all, Americans have been temperamentally prone to discount them. Reflecting its audience, the press follows suit. Editors and reporters like to offer themselves as [...]
Drone Attacks in Pakistan have a 2.5% strike rate against Al-Qaeda
Teeth Maestro | By Dr. Awab Alvi | 15 May 2010 The Pakistan Body Count, a website run and managed by Zeeshan Usmani, a professor at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute has documented over 124 drone attacks since 2004 and as per the last documented attack on May 11th 2010 in Miranshah shows that only 30 Al-Qaeda operatives have perished in the [...]
Official Text of Ahmedinejad’s U.N. Non-Proliferation Speech
Statement by His Excellency Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President of the Islamic Republic of Iran before the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear weapons Treaty (NPT) (New York- 3 May 2010) In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe, and peace and [...]
