Senator: Consider military action against Pakistan
AP A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunday that the U.S. should consider military action against Pakistan if it continues to support terrorist attacks against American troops in Afghanistan. “The sovereign nation of Pakistan is engaging in hostile acts against the United States and our ally Afghanistan that must cease, Sen. Lindsey [...]
Read More →BBC, front for British spy agency
PressTV Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi says the British intelligence service used the BBC as a cover for its anti-Iranian activities. Moslehi told IRNA on Sunday that the intervention of the Intelligence Ministry and the arrest of those cooperating with the BBC were aimed at preventing others from falling into the trap of the British [...]
Read More →US drug shortage reaching crisis point
PressTV The shortage of vital drugs in the United States has reached crisis levels, endangering the lives of many patients and at the same time driving up the costs for hospitals, a new report says. The Associated Press review of the industry reports and interviews with nearly two dozen experts found that the shortage has [...]
Read More →US media ignore Wall Street protests
PressTV An American scholar says peaceful anti-corporatism protests known as “Occupy Wall Street” in New York are ‘nonexistent’ in mainstream media in the US, Press TVreports. “Apparently it is too threatening to corporate interests to acknowledge it,” James H. Fetzer, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, told Press TV on Thursday. Since US mass media refrains [...]
Read More →Meltdown fears for euro as G20 makes plans for Athens to default on debt
Independent.co.uk The world’s leading economic powers are moving towards an acceptance that Greece will default on up to half of its €350bn sovereign debts, according to reports from meetings in Washington yesterday. They are believed to be working on concrete plans to deal with these huge losses and their repercussions. This news – almost regardless [...]
Read More →Turkey to deploy warships over gas dispute with Cyprus
Haaretz Turkey is set to begin natural gas exploration in the coming days in the Eastern Mediterranean, north of Cyprus. According to reports in the Turkish media, the exploration will be accompanied by a fleet of Turkish war ships and submarines. Turkey’s war planes will also be stationed in the northern part of the island, [...]
Read More →NATO’s War on Libya is Directed against China: AFRICOM and the Threat to China’s National Energy Security
By F. William Engdahl Global Research The Washington-led decision by NATO to bomb Gaddafi’s Libya into submission over recent months, at an estimated cost to US taxpayers of at least $1 billion, has little if anything to do with what the Obama Administration claims was a mission to “protect innocent civilians.” In reality it is [...]
Read More →Light pulses keep heart cells beating
New Scientist The beating rhythm of human heart cells can be controlled using light. Researchers at Stanford University in California inserted a gene found in algae into human embryonic stem cells, then made the cells differentiate into heart muscle cells. The gene produces a light-sensitive protein called channelrhodopsin-2, which allows the cells to be switched [...]
Read More →Pakistan’s army holds emergency meeting after U.S. accusations of supporting the Haqqani network
Xinhua Pakistan’s top military commanders held an emergency session on Sunday to discuss the “prevailing security situation” in the country, the army said. The session was called at a time when several top U.S. military commanders have directly accused Pakistan’s mainstream intelligence agency of supporting the Haqqani network for carrying out two attacks on the [...]
Read More →Russia to build sea-based ‘missile shield’ – diplomat
RIA Novosti Russia is planning to develop its own sea-based missile defense system, a Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday. “According to our analysis, this system will be very efficient and meet the norms of international maritime law,” said Vladimir Kozin, a deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s information and press department. Kozin did [...]
Read More →U.S. warned against Waziristan invasion
Voice of Russia In an interview with Reuters Sunday, the leader of the powerful Haqqani faction of the Afghan Taliban Sirajuddin Haqqani warned the Americans of even heavier losses than in Afghanistan in case they launch a ground invasion into the tribal areas of Pakistan. The US accuses Pakistan of sheltering and tacitly directing the [...]
Read More →Austerity measures risk irreversible impact on children, warns Unicef
The Guardian Pledges by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to safeguard poor people from the worst of the global downturn are being challenged by the United Nations, which is warning of the “extraordinary price” being paid by children and other vulnerable groups as mass austerity programmes sweep across the developing world. A study by the [...]
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