Egyptian Military Escalates Violence in Cairo, Killing Protesters
• slatest.slate.comArmy continues bloody crackdown on protesters, signaling shift in response.
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With Friends Like Gingrich, Does Israel Need Enemies?
• original.antiwar.comWhat a sorry bunch of ignoramuses and downright crazies. Or, at best, what a bunch of cheats and cynics! (With the possible exception of the good doctor Ron Paul).
Syria deploys Russian anti-sea missiles on coast, Scuds on Turkish border
• www.debka.comExpanded Russian military and diplomatic support for the Assad regime. Advanced Moscow-supplied Yakhont (SSN-26) shore-to-sea missiles along Syria's Mediterranean shore to fend off a potential Western-Turkish invasion by sea.
Washington's Greater Middle East Agenda: War
Stephen LendmanAnti-war
Ugly Israeli Realities Emerge
Stephen LendmanIsraeli state terror
Russian customs seize Iran-bound radioactive metal
• The Associated PressRussia's customs agency announced Friday it has seized pieces of radioactive metal from the luggage of an Iranian passenger bound for Tehran from one of Moscow's main airports.
Egypt Islamists offer vision for sin-free tourism
• The Associated PressIslamists are dominating Egypt's elections and some of them have a new message for tourists: welcome, but no booze, bikinis or mixed bathing at beaches, please.
As China's economy sinks, fears of civil unrest surface
• Terrence AymChina has problems. As its economy continues to slump, civil unrest is boiling just under the surface of the tightly controlled society. Some of China's officials now worry that soon the country may explode into uncontrollable riots fueled by massiv
How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the US on Troop Withdrawal
• antiwar.comDefense Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a U.S. military success story ignores the fact that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military had planned to maintain a semi-permanen
Protests erupt in Cairo over police brutality
• ft.comA fiery battle between several thousand Egyptian demonstrators and military police next to the cabinet building on Friday continued late into the night, overshadowing the close of polls in the second stage of the country’s historic elections.
Russia Seizes Radioactive Material En Route to Iran
• CNBC.ComThe Russian customs service said on Friday it had seized radioactive material found in the luggage of a passenger bound for Tehran at Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport.
No Success in Iraq -- Unless You're a War Profiteer
• Robert Greenwald and Derrick CroweIt becomes terribly clear that the only people for whom this nightmare was a success are the super-rich CEOs of war industry corporations who made a killing during the wars we launched since 2001.
Kristallnacht in Palestine
Stephen LendmanIsrael's slow-motion genocide solution
Paul Argues for Peace, Not War in GOP Debate
• antiwar.comThe GOP field is unanimous on war with Iran over imaginary nuclear weapons program. Paul urged caution and diplomacy.
Poor, Pitiful, Poverty-Stricken, Defenseless Israel
• lewrockwell.com/blogThat is the view of Michele Bachmann and all the other Republican candidates except for Ron Paul. Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons and Iran has none. They could vaporize Iran in an instant if they genuinely felt threatened and do not need any h
Palestinians: West Bank mosque torched, defaced by Hebrew graffiti
• haaretz.comBurning of mosque near Ramallah comes hours after IDF demolishes two unauthorized structures in Jewish illegal outpost.
Ron Paul Wins Again! Bachmann lied (again!) about Iran in debate.
• dailypaul.comResponding to a hypothetical question about whether the United States should support an attack against Iran by Middle East-ally Israel, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann noted that Iran already has announced plans to strike Israel.
Gear galore left in Iraq as last troops pull out
• washingtontimes.comU.S. command says it’s not worth hauling back
Taliban cut nursing woman’s breast, asked others to eat pieces: UN-backed report
• Indian ExpressIn a gory incident highlighted in a UN report Pakistani Taliban fighters cut the breasts of a woman who was breastfeeding her child and asked other women to eat the pieces.
Is Free Thinking A Mental Illness?
• offthegridnews.comThe DSM-IV is the manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose mental illnesses and, with each new edition, there are scores of new mental illnesses. Are we becoming sicker? Is it getting harder to be mentally healthy?
Fukushima - Could it Have a China Syndrome?
• vimeo.comFairewinds' chief engineer Arnie Gundersen discusses whether the accidents at Fukushima were a meltdown, a melt-through, or a China Syndrome.
Strains on Display: No Iraqi Leaders Attend U.S. End-of-War Ceremony in Baghdad
• cnsnews.comFox News Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that only a handful of Iraqis were on hand Thursday as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and U.S. military leaders formally ended the Iraq war with a subdued ceremony in Baghdad.
Arab uprising could spark unrest in UK: general
• www.reuters.comBritain's top soldier warned on Wednesday that pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East could spawn militant Islamist activity in Britain, but said the greatest threat was economic.
Panetta formally shuts down US war in Iraq
• APAfter nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq—a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq
Europe in Disarray
Stephen LendmanClass war across Europe rages
Moderate Islam
• arcleinAnd as the Europeans have learned, there is a very, very interesting and, I think, proper role in a society like ours for wit and for ridicule in a smart fashion. I’m one who’s very emphatic about reasonable speech. But provoking the discussion, I
Military Dumps Secret Accounts of Iraq Massacre in Trash
• New York TimesOne by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha.
We Who Dared to Say No to War | Thomas E. Woods. Jr.
• YouTube.comJeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of Tom's anthology (edited with Murray Polner), 'We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now.'
Cheney Urges Attack on Iran to Destroy Lost Drone
• antiwar.comjSpeaking today on CNN, former Vice President Dick Cheney lashed President Barack Obama over the loss of a surveillance drone in Iran, saying that he should’ve doubled down on being caught spying with an overt attack on Iran.
New Armed Stealth Drone Heads to Afghanistan (And Maybe Iran, Too)
• www.wired.com/dangerroomThe U.S. Air Force is sending a single copy of a brand-new stealth drone to Afghanistan. Only maybe not just Afghanistan.
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