Experts Urge US Not to Reject Iran Nuclear Deal
• news.antiwar.comUS Officials Shrug Off Proposal
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7 Months After Revolution Ousted Mubarak, Egyptian Military Maintains Control, Suppressing Dissent
• www.democracynow.orgOver the weekend, Egyptian political parties dropped a threat to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections, the first multi-candidate vote since the ouster longtime president, Hosni Mubarak.
Israeli Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid: Crimes Against Humanity
Stephen LendmanIsraeli state terror
Obama Backs Occupation of Palestine
• www.fff.orgThe Obama administration’s hypocritical vow to block full UN membership for Palestine shames America.
Israeli State Terror Belies Wanting Peace
Stephen LendmanIsrael and Washington won't tolerate peace
Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran
• AntiWar.comYet the key factor in any Israeli decision to send its aircraft and missiles to Iran is the degree to which Netanyahu and other hard-line Likud leaders believe that President Obama is locked into giving blanket support to Israel — particularly as ele
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Sales to Iran
• BloombergIn May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern
Israel’s Great Fear: Iran Might Act Like Them
• news.antiwar.comMilitary Officials Concerned Iran Might Try 'Nuclear Ambiguity'
Turkish warships harass Israeli freighters. Israeli missile boats off Cyprus
• www.debka.comIncreasingly assertive Turkey is setting the scene for clashes in the eastern Mediterranean.
Egyptians seek to ‘reclaim’ revolution
• Washington PostThousands of Egyptians turned out in the capital’s Tahrir Square on Friday to “reclaim the revolution,” about nine months after the winter uprising that ousted an autocrat and brought the country’s military leadership to power.
Secret U.S. memo sanctioned killing of Aulaqi
• Washington PostA second American killed in Friday’s attack was Samir Khan, a driving force behind Inspire, the English-language magazine produced by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Khan's presence near the target would not have stopped the attack.
Palestinian Freedom Later, Not Now
Stephen LendmanWashington blocking Palestine's UN membership
Report: Israel scrambles IAF warplanes toward Turkish ship
• www.haaretz.comIsrael Defense Forces jet fighters were scrambled toward a Turkish seismic research ship in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish media reported on Friday, in what seemed to be a further escalation in the already fraying ties between the once longtime a
Ron Paul: US-born al-Qaida cleric 'assassinated'
• APRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul is condemning the Obama administration for killing an American born al-Qaida operative without a trial.
Wiping Them Out One by One
• National JournalPresident Obama’s relentless program of wiping out top al-Qaida leaders around the world through unilateral covert strikes claimed another victim today, when Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born radical cleric identified as “chief of external operations”
Europe again steps back from brink in debt crisis
• Reuters.com(Reuters) - Following a now-familiar script, Europe again averted disaster in its debt crisis when German lawmakers rallied behind Chancellor Angela Merkel to approve a stronger euro zone bailout fund on Thursday.
Al-Qaida rejects Iran's 9/11 conspiracy theories
• The Associated PressAfter his speech at the U.N. in New York, Al-Qaida has sharply criticized Iran's president over his suggestions that the United States government was behind the Sept. 11 attacks and not al-Qaida, dismissing the comments as "ridiculous."
Ahmad Qatamesh: Israeli Prisoner of Conscience
Stephen LendmanQatamesh is one of many hundreds of Israeli political prisoners
Calls to Annex West Bank Settlements
Stephen LendmanIsrael wants all West Bank/Jerusalem territory
Greek Vote Approves a Despised Property Tax
• NY TimesThe Greek Parliament voted late Tuesday in Athens to back a hugely unpopular property tax, one of a series of new austerity measures. The vote could clear the way for a crucial injection of international financing meant to at least temporarily stave
Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad
• NY TimesAbu Elias sat beneath the towering stairs leading from the Convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya, a church high up in the mountains outside Damascus, where Christians have worshiped for 1,400 years. “We are all scared of what will come next,” he said, turn
Netanyahu proved Israel doesn't want peace
• www.haaretz.com By Gideon LevyNetanyahu needed thousands of years of history to obscure reality, but Abbas' sense of history proved to be much more developed: He had no need to call up distant memories to elicit sympathy; all he needed was to soberly depict current events in orde
Merkel Wants a "Strong Greece" in Euro Zone
• online.wsj.comGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her pledge to offer help as Greece tackled its debt woes, passing an unpopular new property tax.
Greek Parliament Approves Unpopular Property Tax
• www.cnbc.comGreek lawmakers approved an unpopular property tax law on Tuesday that is crucial to a new austerity campaign the government has proposed so it can meet the terms of its international bailout and continue receiving aid funds.
Trader on the BBC says Eurozone Market will crash
• youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the "Market is Toast." Apparently there is nothing Euro governments can do.
A Palestinian State? - by Ron Paul
Powell GammillI believe that we can no longer police the world. We can no longer bribe the Israelis and Palestinians to continue an endless "peace process" that goes nowhere. It is not in our interest to hector the Palestinians or the Israelis, or to "export" demo
Quartet Anti-Palestinian Statehood Proposal
Stephen LendmanEfforts to prevent Palestinian statehood
U.S. sold bunker-busting bombs to Israel: report
• RawstoryPresident Barack Obama secretly authorized the sale of 55 powerful bunker-busting bombs to Israel. Israel first asked to buy deep-penetrating GBU-28 bombs in 2005, but were rebuffed by then-president George W. Bush.
In Syria, defectors form dissident army in sign uprising may be entering new phase
• Washington PostA group of defectors calling themselves the Free Syrian Army is attempting the first effort to organize an armed challenge to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, signaling what some hope and others fear may be a new phase in what has been an overwhelmi
AIPAC's Ugly Agenda
Stephen LendmanThe destructive influence of AIPAC
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