World Politics
International Politics
America Disgraces Itself
FOCUS: OPINION ‘Wall Street leads in phony reform’ By Danny Schechter Obama claims his financial reforms will bring an end to taxpayer bailouts [EPA] Charade noun an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance: talk of unity was nothing more than a charade. The plan was to get the financial reform bill …
IRAN DEATH BY STONING BARBARIC TO STONE AGE Mother, Could Be Stoned To Death At Any Moment
STORY HIGHLIGHTS: UPDATE BELOW Sajjad Ashtiani appealed to Iran’s courts to spare his mother In an open letter, Ashtiani points out discrepancies in the case Sakineh Ashtiani, 42, was convicted of adultery in 2006 Her death by stoning could happen any day (CNN) — The son of an Iranian woman who faces execution by stoning …
Reality of War and Occupation is Hypocrisy
What happens when all sides of a conflict are mired in hypocrisy? Two millennia ago, the great Chinese military leader and strategist Zhuge Liang admonished his fellow military men that “when hypocrisy sprouts, even if you have the wisdom of ancient warrior kings you could not defeat a peasant, let alone a crowd of them”. …
Indian forces fire on Kashmiri protesters
3 die as Indian forces fire on Kashmiri protesters Indian forces opened fire on hundreds of rock-throwing protesters in Kashmir killing three people as authorities re-imposed a curfew in the region’s main city amid increasingly violent demonstrations against alleged human rights abuses. Security forces initially used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, a police officer …
Former Spy Amazed Moscow engaged heavily in espionage against Washington.
Former Soviet spy Oleg Kalugin, who headed KGB operations in the United States in the 1970s and later left Russia to live in America, told CNN Tuesday he is “amazed” that Moscow is engaging so heavily in espionage against Washington. Reacting to the recent arrests of 11 alleged Russian spies, Kalugin said that getting the …
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Russian-Irish spy ring eyed ‘global gold market` for manipulaton
Russian-Irish spy ring eyed ‘global gold market’ Posted by Paul Murphy on Jun 28 22:32. The stuff of cheap thrillers, this one:
US warships stationed off Iranian coast
As we first reported, in an article that was met with much original skepticism, the Pentagon has now confirmed that a fleet of 12 warships has passed the Suez Canal, and is now likely awaiting orders to support the escalation in the Persian Gulf. The attached image from shows the latest positioning of US aircraft …
Afghan strategy switch betrays War Crisis
Barack Obama has sacked his commander in Afghanistan. But the real worry is that the war is being lost National security adviser of the world’s greatest superpower is a “clown”, its vice-president a nobody and its president “uncomfortable and intimidated”. With those words the officers around General Stanley McChrystal, the American commander in Afghanistan, engulfed …