Dahr Jamail* – The Nation How will climate change affect the future of the planet? Scientists predict it will be nothing short of a nightmare. I haven’t returned to Mount Rainier to see just how much further that glacier has receded in the last few years, but recently I went on a search to […]
by Patrick Cockburn Everyone knows where al-Qa’ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing. Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30 years. But, for all the supposed determination of the United States and its
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Tehran: Mossad and Saudi intelligence are designing super-Stuxnet to destroy Iran’s nuclear program DEBKAfile Special Report December 3, 2013, 9:31 AM (GMT+02:00) Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency “reveals” that Saudi Arabia and Israel’s Mossad are “co-conspiring to produce a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.” The report appeared Monday, Dec.
By Pepe Escobar December 09, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Beware of strangers bearing gifts. The “gift” is the ongoing, frantic canonization of Nelson Mandela. The “strangers” are the 0.0001 percent, that fraction of the global elite that’s really in control (media naturally included). It’s a Tower of Babel of tributes piled up in layer upon
The US has become the fifth-most wealth-unequal country in the world. The facts are indisputable, the conclusion painful. The wealthiest people in the US and around the world have used the stock market and the deregulated financial system to lay claim to the resources that should belong to all of us. This is not
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By Mohammed Al Qawli Americans must demand an end to drone strikes on innocent civilians December 09, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “Al Jazeera” – I am writing today as a grieving brother, haunted by questions about Ali al Qawli’s death and the complicity of the United States and the Yemeni governments in bringing it about. My
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By Douglas Foster December 5, 2013 By the time of his death at age 95, South Africans were well prepared to keep his dream alive—that too is part of Nelson Mandela’s great legacy. Nelson Mandela addresses crowd at a Port Elizabeth rally on April 1, 1990. (Reuters) To fully grasp the meaning of Nelson Mandela’s death, at
By Noam Chomsky November 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House –Three years since the start of the Arab revolutions, the region has witnessed a kaleidoscope of dramatic developments ranging from free elections to the violent suppression of change. How would you describe the Arab Spring today? In the past I’ve described it as a “work in progress.”
By Eric Margolis After all the gnashing of teeth, beating of breasts and tearing of hair coming from Israel and its American supporters, you’d think last week’s nuclear deal in Geneva has opened the way for Iran to become a mighty nuclear weapons power. Nonsense. Coolly examined, Tehran came off with the short end of
By Timothy Alexander Guzman Silent Crow News “Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt” –Henrik Ibsen December 01, 2013 “Information Clearing House – According to Oxford Dictionary the term Slave is defined as “a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey
