
The terrorist attack against Norway 22 July 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjzAU11xOt8 Johan Christian Tandberg takes up the camera just after the blast and movies while he runs past the bleeding, office dressed people. Then he takes into the government building. Blood, flames, screams of pain, water, glass shattering, smoke, ruins. The bomb has just gone off in its [...]
U.S. Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Hit Targets in Libya damages to be assessed… in the MORNING?!? Ought to be little pieces of “democracy”, hope and change all over the place. AP Top Stories More than 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles struck over 20 targets inside Libya today in the opening phase of an international military operation the [...]
Special Report: Target Libya U.S. and coalition forces begin military action against Libya. ABC NEWS special-report-target-libya-president-politics-war-obama-military Obama Authorizes Military Action Against Libya International forces begin Libya strikes
EGYPT’S revolution was on a knife edge tonight — after a military show of force that saw warplanes dramatically screech over rebels in riot-torn Cairo. Two US-built F-16s flew down the Nile to repeatedly “buzz” the capital’s Liberation Square — where 10,000 protesters defied hated president Hosni Mubarak’s curfew. Demonstrators convinced the tyrant was trying [...]
Cindy Sheehan is now in Washington DC with Peace of the Action: “We are here in the Belly of the Empire!” Look at the schedule here: http://peaceoftheaction.org/housing-trans/ If you can’t make it, please donate whatever you can to help us with expenses for the 13 day protest. http://peaceoftheaction.org/give/ also NEW “End The Fed” protest on [...]
Click below to view videos...
Posted on 30 January 2011
Moscow: The Egyptian authorities have imposed a ban on the work of the Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera in Egypt amid escalating anti-government protests in the north African country, Egypt’s state television announced on Sunday. According to the announcement, the accreditations of Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt have been annulled and the TV channel’s access to satellite communication [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 January 2011
Washington’s Blog January 30, 2011 Al Jazeera reported today: [Al Jazeera reporter] Ayman Mohyeldin reports that eyewitnesses have said “party thugs” associated with the Egyptian regime’s Central Security Services – in plainclothes but bearing government-issued weapons – have been looting in Cairo. Ayman says the reports started off as isolated accounts but are now growing in number. [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 January 2011
One sure way to get people fired up is to shut down the stock market and all the banks, thereby denying citizens access to their money. Yet, that is exactly the desperate course of action chosen by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Protests have now spread to Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. So far however, the protests [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 18 July 2010
Tony Blair : A Bright Shining Lie. Felicity Arbuthnot Part I “If justice and truth take place, If he is rewarded according to his just desert, His name will stink to all generations.” (William Wesley, 1703-1791.) It has been a good couple of weeks of medal gathering for Charles Anthony Lynton Blair, QC. To add [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 June 2010
US Congressman Dennis Kucinich has called for Washington to impose diplomatic and financial consequences on Israel over its deadly attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla. Israel’s conduct “constitutes an act of belligerence against Turkey, which at one time Israel considered an important ally,” the Ohio Democrat wrote in a letter to US President Barack Obama [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 May 2010
I think that anybody with any fairness is bound to admit that the statement William Hague came out with is much better than anything on Israel which New Labour ever came out with, especially this bit: “This news underlines the need to lift the restrictions on access to Gaza, in line with UNSCR 1860. The [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 May 2010
US citizen Emily Henochowicz was shot directly in the face with a tear gas canister as she non-violently demonstrated against the Flotilla massacre UPDATE June 1, 8:30PM (GMT+2): Emily is recovering at Hadassah Hospital after two surgeries Monday night. She lost her left eye, three metal plates were inserted into her head/face, and her jaw [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 May 2010
Professor Jeremy Salt teaches political science at Ankara, Turkey’s Bilkent University. He’s also the author of “The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands.” On January 9, 2009, during Israel’s war on Gaza, he wrote “A Message to the brave Israeli Airmen,” asking: – “What’s it like, firing missiles [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 May 2010
Israel on Thursday unveiled a massive makeshift detention center in the country’s main southern port and announced the end of days of intense naval maneuvers, vowing to stop a flotilla of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists trying to break a 3-year blockade of the Gaza Strip this weekend. Military authorities said that masked naval commandos would [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 May 2010
Tensions are building as eight ships carrying thousands of tons of material and supplies are headed for Gaza to break a blockade-Israel imposed the border closure after Hamas seized power over Gaza in 2007. The boats left ports in Britain, Greece, Ireland and Turkey yesterday. The so-calledFreedom Flotilla will assemble at Cyprus Friday and make [...] Continue Reading