CIA reportedly using Saudi base for drone assassinations in Yemen, location withheld by media
By Madison Ruppert | End the Lie While the use of a base to launch drone strikes in Yemen has been reported in the past, it has been revealed that the exact location of the base was withheld by various news outlets at the request of the Obama administration. This comes as a Justice Department [...]
Read More →The Gulf States: Shared Geography, Shared Culture, Shared Oppression
By Jillian C. York | EFF An article in this week’s Economist describes a scenario in which—following the destruction of a mall’s kiddie dinosaur display by the country’s morality police—Saudi Arabia’s Twitter users quick make a hashtag go viral, building off one another’s jokes and mocking some of the country’s most archaic laws. As the [...]
Read More →Revealed: America’s Arms Sales To Bahrain Amid Bloody Crackdown
By Justin Elliott | Pro Publica Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation. Defense Department documents released to ProPublica give the fullest picture yet of the arms sales: The list includes ammunition, combat vehicle parts, communications equipment, Blackhawk helicopters, and an [...]
Read More →Saudi Religious Police Foil Attempt To Celebrate Christmas
RT Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) aka Saudi religious police force The religious police in Saudi Arabia have raided a house in the Al Jawf Province and arrested 41 people, who were “plotting to celebrate Christmas,” a police statement said. The police said that the detainees were Christian guests [...]
Read More →Iran and Turkey in post-Arab Spring Middle East: Peripheralism and Westernalism
By Behzad Khoshandam | Iran Review Political developments in the Middle East have been approached from various viewpoints. The latest decision by Turkey for the deployment of the Patriot missile system along its borders with Syria in late 2012 and Iran’s opposition to that decision as well as differences between the two countries’ attitudes toward political [...]
Read More →What Is Power and Why Should You Care?
By Tom Chatham | project chesapeake The ability to lead a group or population is either based on respect or fear. The ability to make someone do what you want is the power to coerce them. If a husband wants to buy a SUV and a wife wants a 4 door sedan the husband may [...]
Read More →Nations Argue Over Who Will Control Internet at Telecommunications Conference
By Susanne Posel | Occupy Corporatism At the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and China have withdrawn their proposal for individual nation’s power over internet addresses and digital domains which would have decentralized power over web addresses. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) claims that the leaked [...]
Read More →Israel and Iran Are Key to Nuclear-Free Middle East
By César Chelala | Common Dreams A recent UN General Assembly resolution renews attention on the need to create a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East. The resolution calls on Israel to open its nuclear program for inspection, and to back a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East that was recently [...]
Read More →Abbas: Collaborating with the Enemy
By Stephen Lendman | Global Research Previous articles explained Abbas’ longtime collaboration with Israel. He sold out long ago for whatever benefits he derives. He’s Israel’s enforcer. He ill serves and insults Palestinians. His presidency is illegitimate. Israel rigged his 2005 election. In January 2009, his term expired. He’s still in office. At least for [...]
Read More →23 Bahraini health workers sentenced to prison
PressTV Twenty-three medics have been convicted in Bahrain for their role in anti-regime protests that kicked off in 2011. On Wednesday, a court in the Persian Gulf kingdom sentenced the medics to three months in jail for treating Bahraini protesters and taking part in demonstrations. The medics are among the 95 health workers who were [...]
Read More →Bahrain Cracks Down on Freedom
by Stephen Lendman | SteveLendmanBlog The ruling Al Khalifa monarchy is one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships. It’s also a valued US ally. Bahrain is home to America’s Fifth Fleet. Imperial priorities matter most. Washington backs Bahraini harshness. State terror is policy. Murder, torture, lawless imprisonments, and daily atrocities get tacit support. Bahrain ruthlessly [...]
Read More →Iraqi Dispute over Alleged Israeli Device in F-16 Purchase
By Jawdat Kazem | Al-Monitor The Iraqi parliamentary Security and Defense Committee demanded that the contract for the purchase of United States F-16 fighter jets be canceled in the event that the US refuses to replace the Israeli-made recording devices that they contain. Meanwhile, Iraq’s Foreign Relations Committee ruled out the possibility of cancelling the [...]
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