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Exactly three years after Operation Cast Lead, Israel is threatening another invasion on Gaza while Hamas leaders order a halt to all attacks on Israel.
December 30th, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Politics | Read More »
The most serious dangers facing Americans today stem from our “special relationship” with Israel. by The Council For The National Interest
November 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Editors Picks,Living,New World Order War,Peace,WarZone | Read More »
Balochistan has figured high on the agenda of USA because of its geo-strategic importance. Former USSR too had toyed with the idea of Balochistan getting separated and coming under its influence since it provided the shortest route to warm waters.
September 8th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Living,Peace | Read More »
A previous article discussed release of the leaked UN Palmer Commission’s report on Israel’s May 2010 Mavi Marmara massacre, killing nine Turkish nationals in cold blood.
September 4th, 2011 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine | Read More »
Noted trends analyst Gerald Celente said it, and it’s true. In fact, America’s business is war, more war, multiple wars, permanent wars, pillaging one nation after another for wealth, power, and dominance, while homeland needs go begging.
June 29th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Europe,Middle East,World | Read More »
Except for bankers, war profiteers, other corporate favorites, and America’s super-rich, it’s hard imagining why anyone supports a president backing policies harming so many at home and abroad.
June 12th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »
Together with South Korea, America’s military plans expanding its Asian footprint on Jeju Island with a strategic naval base for Aegis class attack ships.
June 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Military | Read More »
Born in 1945 in Philadelphia PA, Dr. Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester PA. His academic work is focused on the history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He also teaches courses in the history of science and modern European intellectual history.
March 20th, 2011 | Posted in Israel,Libya,Middle East,World | Read More »
Dear Folks, This additional ‘we told you so’ piece is not about stroking our egos, but about saving the Libyan revolution and the momentum of ridding Libya of its Neanderthal dictator and his corrupt regime. This be no means guarantees that democratic reform will keep them free, as elite corruption has rendered that institution a sock puppet for international mobsters, loyal to no country, or people…only to themselves.
March 17th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
by Gilad Atzmon After killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the name of democracy, the White House has now decided that ‘stability in the region’ is by far, much more important. On Saturday, The Wall Street journal reported that the Obama administration is devising a new Middle East strategy in the face of ongoing [...]
March 5th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Israel,Libya,Middle East,World | Read More »
Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the [...]
March 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
By Sajjad Shaukat:
Most alarming point in this respect is that Indian sinister strategic designs under the pretext of so-called Islamic terrorism are not only creating obstacles in the East-West cultural cooperation, but are also taking the world to the brink of clash of civilizations.
November 7th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations | Read More »
Israel has become a “strategic liability” for the U.S., suggests Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cordesman adds the attack on the Turkish ship to a series of “major strategic blunders,” by Israel. [Cordesman and CSIS are impeccably “hyper-centrist,” so this is a good sign – JFP.
June 7th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations | Read More »
So the predictable dynamics are unfolding. Anywhere the US does not have a veto, Israel is being condemned for its latest atrocities and for its illegal blockade on Gaza. Israel as usual has its puppets in the US Congress and the US mainstream media coming to its defense.
June 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Government,Israel,Politics | Read More »
Nine high-profile experts, including former weapons inspector David Kay and former Under Secretary of State Tom Pickering, said world powers should seriously consider the Iran nuclear fuel swap, Reuters reports. “We urge the so-called Vienna Group (Russia, France, the United States, and the IAEA) to seriously pursue this proposal as an opening for further diplomatic engagement with Iran on outstanding issues of concern,” the experts said.
June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Brazil says the US and other Western powers prodded Brazil to try to revive the U.N. fuel swap deal proposed last October. “We were encouraged directly or indirectly … to implement the October proposal…and that’s what we did,” said Foreign Minister Amorim. In a letter to Brazilian President Lula two weeks ago, President Obama said an Iranian uranium shipment abroad would generate confidence. “From our point of view, a decision by Iran to send 1,200 kilograms of low-enriched uranium abroad, would generate confidence and reduce regional tensions by cutting Iran’s stockpile,” Obama said.
May 24th, 2010 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »
94 percent of Kandaharis interviewed last December prefer negotiating with the Taliban to military confrontation, Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service. Ninety-one percent supported the convening of a “Loya Jirga”, or “grand assembly” of leaders as a way of ending the conflict. Interviewers conducted the survey only in areas which were not under Taliban control. An unclassified report on the survey was published in March by Glevum Associates, a “strategic communications” company under contract for the Human Terrain Systems program in Afghanistan. All this undermines the U.S. claim that the Kandahar offensive will be supported by locals, Porter notes.
April 20th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Regardless of whether U.S. Special Forces removed bullets from the bodies of the Afghan women they just killed, as charged by the victims’ relatives – and if they did, what their motivation was for doing so – spreading the story that the women’s bodies had been found “tied up” and “gagged,” as NATO did in a Feb. 12 press release still posted on its web site, if that was not true, would meet any disinterested observer’s definition of the word “coverup.”
April 9th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
The fight over the war supplemental is tremendously important, because Congressional pressure can move Administration policy, even when critics of Administration policy don’t command a majority of votes. This is especially true when, as in this case, critics are in the majority in the President’s own party, and when, as in this case, the policy under pressure is an international policy which is also under significant international pressure.
April 7th, 2010 | Posted in Legislation,Politics | Read More »
U.S. forces hope to control Kandahar and surrounding areas by late summer, the Washington Post reports. Officials have pressed local leaders to eject the Taliban or their areas will be the focus of expanding military operations. Among those specifically warned by U.S. military commanders is Ahmed Wali Karzai, the elected head of Kandahar’s provincial council, the unquestioned power broker in the province and brother of President Hamid Karzai [and also President Karzai's representative in talks with Taliban leader Mullah Baradar weeks before Baradar's arrest, a fact curiously unmentioned by the Post or the very similar New York Times story - JFP.]
March 31st, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
The Pentagon wants $33 billion in additional funding to pay for the war in Afghanistan this year and train the Afghan military, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Defense Secretary Gates and Secretary of State Clinton appeared before Senate appropriators to defend the war supplemental, which is on top of the $708 billion baseline budget submitted to Congress in February.
March 27th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Israeli officials rejected demands by the Obama Administration to cancel a building project in East Jerusalem, the New York Times reports. Secretary of State Clinton said Washington expected action from Israel, and a key US demand is that Israel neither promote nor permit “provocative” acts, meaning anything that would disturb the atmosphere as Palestinians and Israelis prepare for indirect peace talks. That would include new building projects.
March 17th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Secretary of State Clinton warned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Friday that Israel had sent a “deeply negative signal” about the U.S.-Israeli relationship and urged him to take immediate steps to demonstrate it was interested in renewing efforts at a Middle East peace agreement, the Washington Post reports. Her call, made in the wake of the embarrassment suffered by Vice President Biden when Israel announced it would build 1,600 housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem, was an unusually tough message for the longtime U.S. ally, the Post says.
March 13th, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
An open diplomatic row with Israel during the visit of Vice President Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions the US is too weak to broker a deal, AP reports. The Palestinians largely lost faith in the U.S. as a broker after Obama tried – and failed – to get the Netanyahu government to stop building on lands Palestinians claim for a future state, AP says.
March 12th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Some American doctors are pleading U.S. officials to keep the Navy hospital ship Comfort in Haiti, the Baltimore Sun reports. University of Southern California surgeon Randy Sherman, medical director for the aid organization Operation Smile, said “there is no doubt” there are enough earthquake victims to keep the Comfort busy. He thinks it could operate at high volume for at least three more months. US doctors say Haiti is replete with patients whose orthopedic injuries have healed improperly and require complex surgeries that only the Comfort can provide.
March 4th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
This summary briefing comes to us through the courtesy of Just Foreign Policy. Summary: U.S./Top News 1) Japan’s Social Democratic Party, a junior partner in the governing coalition, will prioritize a plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture entirely out of the country, Kyodo News reports. 2) The UN General [...]
March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
The Afghan human rights commission reported that 28 civilians had been killed so far in NATO’s offensive on Marja, AP reports. The commission based its numbers on witness reports. NATO has confirmed at least 16 civilian deaths.
February 26th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Rep. Kucinich wrote to Defense Secretary Gates, demanding that the U.S. comply with its obligation to protect Afghan civilians under international law, following a US attack on a civilian convoy reported to have killed 27 civilians. Kucinich demanded information on the decisions that led to the strike within two weeks, threatening to force a House vote demanding release of documents on the strike.
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende said he expected Dutch troops to come home from Afghanistan before the end of the year, after efforts to keep them there longer caused the government to collapse, the New York Times reports. The war in Afghanistan has been increasingly unpopular among voters in in many parts of Europe, creating strains between governments trying to please the US and their own people.
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
The New York Times today published a monstrous Op-Ed complaining that the U.S. is being too careful to avoid civilian deaths in Afghanistan, notes Glenn Greenwald for Salon. The US military has “begun basing doctrine on the premise that dead civilians are harmful to the conduct of war,” the op-ed complains. “The trouble is, no past war has ever supplied compelling proof of that claim.” Greenwald notes that in addition to publishing the monstrous op-ed, the New York Times essentially hides the identity of the author from the reader, by not explaining who she is, who she works for, what economic interests she might represent, and what is the basis of her alleged expertise. [Ask the New York Times Public Editor to investigate: public@nytimes.com - JFP.]
February 19th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
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