Voltaire Network français Español The Abbottabad Commission report, divulged July 8, 2013 by Al-Jazeera sheds light on a secret understanding between Washington and Islamabad over the use of drones. Despite Pakistan’s repeated protests against U.S. drone strikes to eradicate “terrorist” groups, it turns out they are perfectly legal. The Abbottabad Commission was to study the…
Wed May 22, 2013 12:20PM GMT 41 By Gordon Duff The timing of events in Syria has been a particular disaster for the United States. Through “sequestration,” the governments imposed austerity measures, military forces in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean have been scaled back as have other operations including intelligence gatherin.” Related Interviews: ‘Fox…
The site of bomb attacks that killed 46 people in Turkey’s southern town of Reyhanli on May 11, 2013 Mon May 13, 2013 8:45AM GMT 10 By Jim W. Dean The Israeli attacks were of course a provocation to see if Syria might send a Sarin-laced missile into Israel in return, but they are not…
Gordon Duff — Press TV May 10, 2013 Striking evidence of the use of American EPW (Earth Penetrating Weapons) nuclear weapons in Syria has come to light. Experts say the proof is irrefutable. Dramatic video footage from Syria has revealed startling evidence that counters Israel’s claims of “surgical strikes” on weapons headed to Lebanon. What…
By Spencer Ackerman 02.14.13 U.S. soldiers train their counterparts in Ghana, 2011. The next leader of U.S. Africa Command emphasized such training as a fixture for confronting terrorist groups in Africa. Photo: U.S. Army Here’s an indicator of how the U.S. military considers northern and eastern Africa the next major battlefield of the ongoing war…
The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan to help deliver aid to refugees and to plan for possible military action, including a rapid buildup of forces. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-us-jordan-troops-20130418,0,7018059.story Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he and President Barack Obama are wary of intervening in Syria. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images / April 17, 2013)…
The West, has an odd habit of assuming dictators we don’t like, will simply disappear. Well, Western “statesmen”, diplomats, “analysts” and those absurd think-tankers so beloved of the networks may yet have to buy a new crystal ball. Read more : http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/robert-fisk-beware-wishful-thinking-assad-isnt-going-soon-8578513.html?origin=internalSearch
Construction is nearing completion on a natural gas pipeline linking Iran and Pakistan, a project that portends a huge geopolitical shift. As regional powers strengthen ties in this key energy market, they’re looking to China, and away from the West. Since the early 2000s, analysts and diplomats across Asia have been dreaming of a future…
Experiences from Greece 04/04/2013 In early March I had the opportunity to visit and talk with colleagues working in Civico Zero. This is a reception center in Rome addressed to unaccompanied minors, the vast majority of Afghan origin. The center is the namesake operator partnership and sponsored by the NGO Save the Children . Among…
AFRICA: (24 Countries and 115 between militias-guerrillas, separatist groups and anarchic groups involved) Hot Spots: Central African Republic, Darfur, Democrati Republic of Congo, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Puntland, Somalia, Somaliland –Algeria: fights between regular army and: al-Qaeda Organization in the Maghreb (AQIM) or al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) since 2005 (known in the past as…
Italy: Summary Returns to Greece Violate Rights Unaccompanied Children, Asylum Seekers Should Not Be Turned Away (Rome) – Italy is summarily returning unaccompanied migrant children and adult asylum seekers to Greece, where they face a dysfunctional asylum system and abusive detention conditions, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today. Stowaways on ferries from Greece, including…
The Drone War Doctrine We Still Know Nothing About
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/Collection of Eugenia Hochberg Lanceter A group of Jewish women at the entrance to the Brody ghetto in Eastern Galicia, 1942. The sign is written in German, Ukrainian and Polish. By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: March 1, 2013 THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim…
Blackwater is notorious. A private mercenary army, it first came to public attention in 2003 two years after it was founded after the US government contracted it to provide military support for the war in Iraq. Innumerable scandals followed. And now the Greek Government has enlisted its services for domestic duties. The first time Blackwater…
Inter Press Service, 7 February 2013 The “drone”, one of the eminently controversial lethal weapons deployed by the United States in its war against terrorism, is obviously a dirty word in the U.N. lexicon. ‘Drone’ a Dirty Word in the UN Lexicon United Nations — The “drone”, one of the eminently controversial lethal weapons deployed…
By Rixon Stewart on February 3, 2013 News Commentary – Feb 3, 2013 You’ve got to laugh. Faced with a newly developed Iranian jet fighter and Zionists’ and their allies in the corporate media first response is: “it’s a fake”! We reserve judgement on that for now but if you said the same about the…
Almost 15 years after the fact, Nigerians are officially allowed to sue Pfizer over the company’s illegal use of a new antibiotic on their children. Pfizer is accused of illegally testing a drug, Trovan, in Nigeria and then killing 11 children and injuring 181 others during a meningitis epidemic in 1996. Trovan was banned in…
US claims of ‘no civilian deaths’ A Reaper drone on an airstrip in Kandahar. Library photo/Ministry of Defence. Claims by President Obama’s chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan that ‘there hasn’t been a single collateral [civilian] death’ in Pakistan since August 2010 are found to be untrue today, following a major Bureau investigation. According…
What kind of event would allow the president to define as terrorists all gun owners opposed to gun confiscating executive orders? What would it take to link 2nd amendment with al Qaeda? Or is this government incapable of black-op false-flag operations?
Newtown kids v Yemenis and Pakistanis: what explains the disparate reactions?
by LeiLani Dowell Arriving in Karachi, Pakistan, at 4 a.m. for a trip in support of efforts to free and repatriate Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney and International Action Center Co-Director Sara Flounders received an overwhelmingly warm welcome on Dec. 2. Hundreds of Siddiqui’s supporters met the two at the airport in…
PESHAWAR: Gunmen mounted fresh attacks Wednesday on health workers carrying out polio vaccinations, taking the death toll to eight and prompting UN agencies to suspend work on a campaign opposed by the Taliban. Eight people – six of them women – working to immunise children against the highly infectious disease have been shot dead in…
18 December, 2012 [source] KABUL: A parliamentary panel on Monday asked the government to investigate the case of a detained journalist, Habib Rahman Ibrahimi, as soon as possible. Some two months back, NATO-led troops picked up Ibrahimi from his residence in the Company neighbourhood of Kabul and kept him in detention at the Bagram airbase…
By Stephen Lendman Global Research Call it elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. A Washington Post Special Report discussed America’s permanent war agenda. It includes targeted killings, Obama’s secret kill list, global drone wars, and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan’s new rules for war playbook. Established in 2003, Washington’s National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deliver joint statements in Jerusalem (al-Quds) on November 20, 2012. It was a David and Goliath battle in which the Zionist Goliath was forced to retreat with a bloody nose and a severely dented ego. The biblical reference is rather apt since the…
“In reality, do you really need a war?” — Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Al Rascon “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”– Albert Einstein Read the three pages here I spent almost half an hour trying to avoid to add categories from geo-locations that a war…
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Massacre And Harassment In Kashmir In the modern era, various forms of state terrorism continue by the Israeli armed forces on the Palestinians. While with the backing of Burmese military regime and the covert assistance of Hindus, recent bloodshed of the minority Rohingya Muslim community at the…
A US Predator drone firing a Hellfire missile (file photo) Sun Nov 4, 2012 2:27AM GMT Pakistani photographers have released photos showing victims of US assassination drone strikes being treated in local hospitals in northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports. The photos, which were made public on Saturday, show the victims of a recent US attack…
UK court rejects legal challenge by US-held Pakistani by Staff Writers London (AFP) File image: Bagram jail. Yunus Rahmatullah, 30, was captured in Iraq in 2004 by British forces which then handed him to US authorities. He was later transferred to Afghanistan’s Bagram jail where he has been held without charge ever since. The…
– Common Dreams staff Pakistan’s anti-drone politician and former cricket-star, Imran Khan, was taken off an international flight from Toronto to New York for questioning over his political views, and his critical stance on US foreign policy, immigration officials have confirmed. This file photo shows Pakistani politician Imran Khan addressing a rally in Tank, on…
A high-powered team investigating the Rimsha Masih ”blasphemy” case has found the cleric of a mosque guilty, and has declared Rimsha as innocent due to lack of evidence. Rimsha, believed to be around 14 years of age and reportedly suffering from some mental disability, was allegedly seen burning pages inscribed with Quranic verses, last month.…
All those links were sent to me on Twitter via @Canada_Kat (thank you very much )and I am more than glad to post them,I do believe I will find more on those people due time.No threats allowed according to the WP policy or the HR declaration and all the conventions etc etc etc. So please…
