Turkey: Erdogan’s son-in-law developer of shopping mall to go in bulldozed park
By Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Erdogan risks the ‘must go’ path Is this the Turkish Spring? No, at least not yet. Is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan the new Mubarak? No, at least not yet. History keeps warning us it takes just a spark to light a political bonfire. The recent spark in [...]
Read More →Major Anti-Government Riots Engulf Turkey
By Alex Newman | The New American What began last week as a small protest against changes to a popular park in Istanbul, Turkey, quickly morphed into at least tens of thousands of furious demonstrators out in the streets of major cities across the country. Violent nationwide riots aimed at the increasingly authoritarian rule of [...]
Read More →If the Syrian Dictator Must Go… Why Not the Dictators in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain?
Washington´s Blog If We’re “Fighting for Democracy”, than Why Are We Arming and Financially Supporting Dictatorships throughout the Middle East? Western Israeli leaders call Syrian leader Assad a dictator. Fair enough. He and his father have ruled Syria since 1971. But what about Saudi Arabia? The Saudi royal monarchy has been ruling that region for hundreds of years. [...]
Read More →Russian warships enter Mediterranean to form permanent task force
By RT The “Admiral Panteleyev” anti-submarine warfare ship of the Pacific Fleet (RIA Novosti/Vitaliy Ankov) Warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet have entered the Mediterranean for the first time in decades. Russia’s Navy Chief says the task force may be reinforced with nuclear submarines, as the country starts building up a permanent fleet in the region. [...]
Read More →Alarmist Decry Global Drought While Water Privatization Controls Resources
By Susanne Posel | Occupy Corporatism A NASA study claims that after reviewing 7 years of drought in parts of the Middle East, and poor management combined with increasing demands for ground water have led to an exorbitant amount of water loss in the region. As part of the NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Expert [...]
Read More →Saudi sends more tanks, arms to Bahrain
By PressTV Saudi Arabian troops heading towards Bahrain to crush anti-regime protesters (file photo) Saudi Arabia has sent more tanks and weapons for its troops in Bahrain during the Formula One Grand Prix auto race in Manama. Bahrani activists said on Sunday that the tanks were sent by heavy military transport vehicles, which crossed the [...]
Read More →Ancient Civilisations: Six Great Enigmas
By Will Hart & Robert Berringer | New Dawn We stand today at an unprecedented turning point in human history. In recent years two versions of ancient history have formed. One, we shall call ‘alternative’ history, the other we shall refer to as ‘official’ history. The former ponders over a variety of anomalies and tries [...]
Read More →How Gathering Storms in the Mideast Could Come Crashing Down on Obama
By Ira Chernus | tomdispatch via Alternet If Obama doesn’t stop ignoring the hard realities, his attempts at establishing a Mideast peace will surely crumble. Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his eloquent words. U.S. and Israeli journalists called it a dream [...]
Read More →U.N. Think Tank Opening Office in Bahrain, with Bahraini Government Funding
By Justin Elliott | ProPublica As Bahrain enters the third year of a crisis sparked by Arab Spring protests in 2011, the government continues to bar many human rights advocates and journalists from entering the country. But one non-profit group is not only being welcomed into the tiny Gulf kingdom, it’s opening an office there. [...]
Read More →‘Categorically false’: US dismisses Karzai’s accusations of Taliban terror collusion
By RT Afghan President Hamid Karzai gives a speech during an event to mark International Women’s Day in Kabul March 10, 2013 (Reuters / Mohammad Ismail) The US has denied that it is collaborating with Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan to prolong the stay of its forces beyond next year, refuting an accusation made by President [...]
Read More →Locust alert in Middle East as plague descends on Egypt and creates panic in Israel
By Alex Ward | Daily Mail As swarms of locust devour Egyptian crops, the Middle East is bracing for the destructive bugs to migrate their way ahead of the Passover holiday. A swarm of an estimated 30million insects has been devastating crops in Egypt, fuelling apocalyptic fears because of the infestation’s proximity to the Bible [...]
Read More →Upcoming Tenth Anniversary of Illegal Invasion of Iraq. Her Majesty’s Government: “Don’t Mention the War”
By Lesley Docksey | Global Research Why is it, just when you think the British Government can sink no lower and visit no more embarrassment and shame upon the country they are supposedly there to represent, that within a week or less one of the Ministers will open his mouth or put pen to paper [...]
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