Berne/New Delhi, Nov 2, 2014 (PTI): As probe into suspected black money stashed abroad by Indians gathers steam, banks in Switzerland are running from pillar to post to safeguard their interest while some are also considering financial provisions in their books for possible penal actions and legal costs. At the same time, banks…
By Noam Chomsky “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels.” The article reports on…
by Chris Hedges Detail from the film, “Kill the Messenger,” about journalist Gary Webb. (File) There is more truth about American journalism in the film “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles the mainstream media’s discrediting of the work of the investigative journalist Gary Webb, than there is in the movie “All the President’s Men,”…
By Daily Mail An Iraq War veteran serving five life terms for raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her parents and sister says he didn’t think of Iraqi civilians as humans after being exposed to extreme warzone violence. Steven Green, a former 101st Airborne soldier, in his first interview since the 2006 killings, claimed…
By Patrick Cockburn October 15, 2014 “ICH” – “The Independent” – Iraq is descending into savage sectarian warfare as government-backed Shia militias kill, torture and hold for ransom any Sunni whom they detain. Isis is notorious for its mass killings of Shia, but retaliation by Shia militiamen means that Iraq is returning to the levels…
By Sharif Nashashibi Asking Muslims to apologise for al-Qaeda and IS is like asking a Brit to apologise for the English Defence League There was no shortage of “here we go again” moments in US President Barack Obama’sspeech at the UN last week. One of them was his statement that “it is time for…
by Jeremy Salt In his 1964 book The Lucky Country, Donald Horne wrote: ’Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.’ The phrase was picked up by politicians and used in smug ways Horne never intended. What he meant was that while others had to work hard to get ahead,…
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 2014 (IPS) – When U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, he was outspoken in his criticism of Russia for bullying Ukraine, Syria for its brutality towards its own people, and terrorists of all political stripes for the death and destruction plaguing Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia. But as…
By Fawaz Gerges With ISIL moving towards urban warfare, serious questions regarding the efficacy of the US-led strategy remain. Before and after images of air strikes in Syria during a briefing at the Pentagon [AFP] In the past few weeks, air strikes by US forces have been targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant…
By Ronnie Kasrils Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds that Gaza is on the brink of a genocidal apartheid. Israel and its accomplices must not be allowed to get away with the extermination of a people, writes Kasrils [EPA] Nelson Mandela frequently declared that “Palestine was the greatest moral issue of our time”. After we toppled the…