Obama is now under pressure at home to ‘do more’.   While all options are said to be still on the table,  Barack Obama is clearly backing away from any deeper involvement in Syria now it is clear that nothing but   direct intervention is going to bring down the government in Damascus. In the past few months alone the armed groups have lost thousands of men. Although the confl ...

1) Bashar al-Assad Interview: Israel Supports Al Qaeda Terrorists By Global Research News, May 19, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/bashar-al-assad-interview-israel-supports-al-qaeda-terrorists/5335664   2) Syrian Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on US Sponsored Terrorists By Global Research News, May 19, 2013  http://www.globalresearch.ca/bashar-al-assad-interview-israel-supports-al-qaeda-terrorists/ ...

Initial Report: Peace Delegation to Syria, May 2-10, 2013 April 30, 2013 Dear supporters of Palestine and Syria, I will leave in a few hours to join the delegation. We will gather at the Greek Catholic Patriarchate in Lebanon just north of Beirut. During the first day and a half, we will meet with dignitaries and representatives in Lebanon, and with Syrian refugees. We will then go to Damascus for four days ...

New Palestine Party. Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed. A letter to The New York Times, published in the "Books" section (Page 12) of Saturday December 4, 1948 by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, et.al. Source: Text from original microfilm TO THE EDITORS OF NEW YORK TIMES: Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the ...

  Geheimdienstskandal in Luxembourg Im Rahmen einer Expertenanhörung hat der Parlamentarische Untersuchungsausschuss des Abgeodnetenhauses in Luxembourg den deutschen Geheimdienst-Experten Dr. ROLF GÖSSNER zum prekären Verhältnis von Geheimdiensten zur Demokratie sowie zur Reformfähigkeit von Geheimdiensten befragt. Auch in Luxemburg gibt es besorgniserregende Skandale des dort ...

Übersetzung: Einar Schlereth   Die Neufassung der Geschichte durch die Machtelite wurde peinlich offensichtlich, als das Land an den 10. Jahrestag des Beginns des Irakkrieges dachte. Manche behaupteten, sie wären gegen den Krieg gewesen, wenn sie es nicht waren. Unter anderen argumentierten „die nützlichen Idioten von Bush“, dass sie nur in gutem Glauben entsprechend der vorh ...

  Illustration by Mr. Fish   The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Some claimed they had opposed the war when they had not. Others among “Bush’s useful idiots” argued that they had merely acted in good faith on the information available; if they had known then what they know now, t ...

Cartoon: Carlos Latuff   Saudi claims of “busting a spy ring” involving Iranian and Lebanese nationals this week smell of yet more dirty tricks by the creaky House of Saud. But the repeated formula for attempting to smear Iran used by the Saudis and their Western and Israeli partners is in danger of becoming a parody. Saudi authorities detained 18 individuals across the kingdom this week, w ...

Part I: Africa’s New Thirty Years’ War? Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism. Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a land ...

Press TV's documentary program "Untold Truths" is a revealing documentary film about the life and experiences of former White House Middle East policy adviser, Gwenyth Todd, who has escaped to Australia to keep safe from FBI prosecution. ...