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Numerous documents focusing on partnerships and surveillance tactics between America's National Security Agency and regional security apparatus' in the Middle East, especially the Gulf region, will be released soon, according to the journalist leadin
Humans have been using gold as a store of value for millennia. The earliest pure gold coins date to about 560 B.C. in what is now Turkey. Gold coins proliferated for many reasons: The metal is shiny, durable, malleable, easy to test for authenticity,
An Iranian court has sentenced eight people to jail terms ranging from seven to 20 years for crimes including anti-regime propaganda posted on Facebook, an opposition website has said.
Throughout much of 2012 and 2013, the United States and Iran fought a financial war. With the benefit of hindsight, my friend Jim Rickards calls it a draw.
The Saudi dynasty is facing its biggest dynastic challenge in 50 years, and Game of Thrones-style cracks are showing in the imminent transition from King Abdullah’s rule.
At a secret base in Qatar, the US military is training rebels to raid Syrian government troops and vehicles, as well as to “finish off the soldiers still alive after an ambush,” first-hand interviews in a Frontline documentary have revealed.
The New York Times is reporting that the U.S. is helping to form elite counter-terror units within the militaries of four African countries. It's another sign that the U.S. views Islamist extremism in western and northern Africa as more than a purely
The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship with about 1,000 marines off the coast of Libya in case the US embassy must be evacuated, a US defense official said Tuesday.
With reports indicating that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are gaining ground in that country’s brutal civil war, moderate Syrian rebels have told a visiting journalist that the United States is arranging their training in Qatar.
A great deal of Israel’s brazen behaviour has been at the very least abetted, if not out rightly supported by the United States of America – ironically the world’s self appointed moral police man of the “free” world. Cough cough.
Obama and Karzai have a testy relationship and Washington has been deeply frustrated by the outgoing Afghan leader's refusal to sign a bilateral security agreement that would allow post-2014 US troops in the country.
New Subsidies Are Part of 'Qualitative Military Edge' Move
Shi’ite pilgrims wrapped up their yearly observance of Imam Kadhim’s death anniversary in Baghdad.
The Washington Post’s neocon editors have made another strident appeal for President Barack Obama to “abandon his passivity and do something to help” the rebels in Syria, complaining that they “continue to receive far too little help from the United
The speeches create a false reality that supports ever more wars. None of America's wars had anything to do with keeping America free. To the contrary, the wars swept away our civil liberties, making us unfree.
The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed by the White House when his name was included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with U.S. troops.
These are the ‘best of times’ for the oil giants in Iraq. Production is up, profits are soaring, and big oil is rolling in dough.
Iraq was a blood-drenched disaster and Afghanistan a grinding military and political failure. But Libya was supposed to have been different. NATO's war to overthrow Gaddafi was hailed as the liberal intervention that worked.
Having watched Tim Geithner's disgusting defense of the tax-payer-backed re-inflation of a corrupt and knowingly devastating banking system on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, and watching the US fine (no jail time for anyone) a Swiss bank...
A billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion state bank scam in Iran, the largest fraud case since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, was executed Saturday, state television reported.
The dire consequences of the west's intervention are being felt today in Tripoli and across Africa, from Mali to Nigeria
Prime ministerial adviser Yusuf Yerkel obtained a medical report allowing him to miss work, due to injuries sustained to the leg that he used to kick a mourner in Soma after last week’s mine disaster, according to medical officials.
Insists Russia 'Becoming More Aggressive'
In a speech at the Stimson Center today, US Ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones sought to downplay the attempted military coup in Libya, arguing that Gen. Khalifa Hifter never said he “wants to be in charge,” defending it as an anti-terrorism move.
China Urges New Security Pact With Russia, Iran
It’s just a coincidence that Gen. Khalifa Hifter launched his Libyan coup 4 days after the US deployed 200 troops to Sicily – a "crisis response team" sent at the State Department’s request. Another coincidence: US-backed
Did the Obama Administration supply arms to the terrorist group holding more than 200 girls hostage in Africa? Some political observers believe military aid provided to Libyan rebels may have found their way to the organization. In Nigeria, the m
The Taliban in Afghanistan has carried out a series of attacks, killing dozens of police officers over just a few days. At least 23 policemen were killed, and 12 officers and bystanders were injured. Nine of the injured were victims of a suicide
Atop the hill of Tel Ahmar just a few kilometres from Israeli forces on the Golan Heights, Syrian Islamist fighters hoist the al Qaeda flag and praise their mentor Osama bin Laden.
An Internet video of 6 young Iranian men and women dancing to Pharrell Williams' "Happy" has led to their arrests, showing how far Tehran will go to halt what it deems to be decadent Western behavior — despite the views of
