by Thomas Erdbrink posted November 2, 2012 by New York Times TEHRAN — Sitting on one of the many crowded benches in the waiting room of the International Red Crescent’s pharmacy in central Tehran, Ali, 26, was working his phone. After nearly six weeks of chasing down batches of Herceptin, an American-made cancer medicine, Ali,…
by Ibrahim Hewitt posted November 20, 2012 by Middle East Monitor It should come as no surprise that King Abdullah of Jordan has cancelled a proposed visit to Britain during which he was to attend the annual fundraising dinner of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. After all, the Board is staunchly pro-Israel and…
by Jonathan Cook posted November 18, 2012 by Information Clearing House A short interview broadcast by CNN late last week featuring two participants – a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli within range of the rocket attacks – did not follow the usual script. For once, a media outlet dropped its role as gatekeeper, there…
by George Washington posted November 20, 2012 by naked capitalism We extensively documented that the wars in the Middle East and North Africa are largely about oil and gas. (Update: Iran has just started building its gas pipeline to Syria.) As Professor Michel Chossudovsky noted in 2009, gas may be a central reason for the…
“Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism” Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist” Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland. During a Commons debate on the fighting in…
posted November 22, 2012 by Aljazeera … Emails released by US Defence Department provide new information over burial of slain al-Qaeda leader. … The body of slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was given an “Islamic burial” and buried at sea amid high secrecy, new emails released by the US Defence Department detailing the procedures…
posted November 20, 2012 by Information Clearing House By Gareth Porter News stories on the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report suggested new reasons to fear that Iran is closer to a “breakout” capability than ever before, citing a nearly 50-percent increase in its stockpile of 20-percent enriched uranium and the installation of hundreds…
by Daud Abdullah posted November 22, 2012 by Middle East Monitor In March 1996, leaders from 29 countries met in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh for a “Summit of the Peacemakers”. Co-hosted by the then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and US President Bill Clinton, its goals were to formulate a peace plan to…
posted November 23, 2012 by Middle East Monitor The leader of Tunisia’s Al-Nahda Party, Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi, has praised the achievements of the Palestinian resistance in the face of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Sheikh Ghannouchi added that the Egyptian-brokered truce “represents a victory for Palestine, the Arab and Muslim nations, and the free…
