Targeting Bahraini Human Rights Lawyer Mohammed Al-Tajer
Stephen LendmanPolice state
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David Sanger's War on Iran
Stephen Lendmanmedia warm
Al-Qaeda eyes children for jihad
• Middle East Online"I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death," the wife of al-Quaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri recently said.
More Syrian Blood on Obama's Hands
Stephen LendmanHeading for war on Syria
Endangered Press Freedom in Israel
Stephen LendmanEroding freedoms in Israel
Afghan Children Dead After US Air Assault: Report
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffNATO says only two light injuries to civilians during operation in Logar province, but local official reports at least 17 killed
Panetta admits that US is at war in Pakistan
• http://rt.com/usa/news/panetta-us-war-pakistan-225Hold the phone, anti-war activists. President Obama says that American troops are done with Operation Iraqi Freedom and their episode in Afghanistan is almost over.
Nashville Files Public Nuisance Suit Against Kurdish Street Gang
• Wall Street JournalPolice in Nashville have filed Tennessee’s first public nuisance lawsuit against a street gang consisting of Kurdish refugees, seeking to prohibit them from meeting in an area of downtown Nashville that includes city parks, an elementary school and n
There Are Growing Signs Of A Crisis In Russia
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Bruce KrastingI talked with a Swiss banker from Geneva today. The conversation went like this:
Ray McGovern: My Take
Sorting Out the Facts about Iran
Ray McGovernNeocons, including the Washington Post’s editors, keep playing games with the facts regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The plan apparently is to guide the U.S. into a military confrontation whether Obama and the American people want one or not.
Twin suicide bombings kill 22 civilians in market in southern Afghanistan
• http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Associated PressTwo suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market area in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 22 people wounding about 50, authorities said.
Heated Anti-Assad Rhetoric Promotes War
Stephen LendmanObama plans war on Syria
Israeli Commanders Face Trial in Turkish Court
Stephen LendmanIsrael on trial
Officials: Al-Qaida's No. 2 target of CIA drones
• APThe CIA has carried out a half-dozen drone strikes in Pakistan in 2 weeks, the latest targeting al-Qaida's second in command, as the U.S. pushes ahead with the controversial program despite Pakistani demands that it stop.
Reason for Hope and Despair in Palestine
Stephen LendmanOdds long against justice
Russia turns east to embrace looming China
• www.reuters.comWhen Russia opens a "billion-dollar bridge" on its Pacific coast this summer, Vladimir Putin can expect an enthusiastic audience among the 5,000 islanders whom it will connect to the mainland, at an eye-popping cost per head.
Israel asks Arab visitors to open emails to search
• hosted.ap.orgWhen Sandra Tamari arrived at Israel's international airport, she received an unusual request: A security agent pushed a computer screen in front of her, connected to Gmail and told her to "log in."
Israel Reneges on Hunger Strike Agreement, Palestinian Prisoners May Renew Strike
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffWithin two weeks after an agreement reached between Palestinian hungers strikers in Israeli prisons, Israel has begun to renege on the deal.
Iran: Response to attack will come ‘like thunderbolt’
• http://www.rt.comAny Israeli “misstep” against Iran will fall on their own heads “like a thunderbolt”, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warns.
Discrimination Against Arab Communities in Israel
Stephen LendmanIsraeli racism
U.S. drone targets in Yemen raise questions
• Washington PostThere is little doubt among U.S. intelligence officials that Kaid and Nabil al-Dhahab — brothers who reportedly survived a U.S. airstrike in Yemen on Memorial Day — are associated with the al-Qaeda insurgency
The Conviction of Hosni Mubarak
• Free Patriot PressFormer Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was recently sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the killing of unarmed demonstrators during the first six days of protests that ended his rule last February. The Boston Globe reports, “With the nati
Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre
Stephen LendmanHeading for war on Syria
Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gets life in prison
• The Hals ReportHosni Mubarak, one of the most recent dictators to fall from grace in the middle east was handed down a sentence of life in prison today by judge Ahmed Refaat in a Cairo court for ordering the killings of hundreds of protestors during last summers up
Risking Global War
Stephen LendmanRisk of global war real
Baghdadi Mahmoudi Faces Torture and Death in Libya
Stephen LendmanLibyan violence out of control
More U.S. warships in Asia-Pacific under new strategy: Panetta
• ReutersThe US will keep 6 aircraft carriers in the Asia-Pacific and move a majority of its other warships to the region in the coming years, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said as he offered details of a new military strategy for the first time.
U.S. asks Iraq to extradite Hezbollah suspect
• ReutersThe fate of Ali Mussa Daqduq has been vexing American officials since last December, when the United States was forced to hand him over to Baghdad after failing to secure a custody deal ahead of the U.S. military's withdrawal from the country.
Obama ‘sped up cyber-attacks’ on Iran’s nuclear program
• New York TimesFrom his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first use of cyberweapons, according to
Pakistan conducts test of nuclear capable cruise missile
• http://news.xinhuanet.com, English.news.cnPakistan on Thursday conducted test of medium range cruise missile, which can deliver nuclear warheads, the military said.
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