JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israelis remain mostly opposed to any unilateral attack by their country on Iran even if international diplomatic pressure fails to curb its nuclear programme, an opinion poll suggested on Friday. … Read More
Clinton: Iran proposals in P5+1 talks “non-starters”
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Jerusalem on Monday that Iran’s proposals made in world power talks on its nuclear program were “non-starters.” … Read More
Iraq war will haunt west, says Briton who advised US military
Emma Sky was civilian governor of Kirkuk and political advisor to General Odierno, commander of US forces in Iraq. Photograph: … Read More
Iran’s ‘morality police’ target cafe culture
Police raid and shut down 87 cafes and restaurants, arresting women for “un-Islamic” behaviour such as smoking hookah. … Read More
Mali rebels say drop separatist goal
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Tuareg-led Mali rebels who seized the north of the West African country in April declared on Sunday they had dropped claims for a separate state after the rebellion was hijacked by al Qaeda-linked Islamists now holding sway in the north. … Read More
Iran issues new oil blockade warning
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran could prevent even “a single drop of oil” passing through the Strait of Hormuz if its security is threatened, a naval chief said on Saturday, as tensions simmer over Tehran’s nuclear program. … Read More
False Flag Alert: US Claims Syria “Moving Nerve Gas Out of Storage”
Citing no evidence, and on the heels of yet another baseless “activist” report claiming a massacre has taken place in Homs, nameless US officials claimed to the Wall Street Journal that the Syrian government is taking chemical weapons out of storage for possible use “against anti-regime rebels or civilians, possibly in an ethnic cleansing campaign.” Despite claiming to possess this information, the US officials refused to disclose the location these weapons were being moved to, nor the actual nomenclature of the weapons, stating only “they are most worried about Syria’s stockpiles of sarin gas.” Image: The symbols for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. The West is the undisputed champion of deploying each of these weapons of mass destruction against their enemies – from nuclear bombs upon Japan, to depleted uranium and white phosphorus upon Iraq, to Agent Orange all across Vietnam – it stands to reason that these weapons would eventually end up in the hands of the their proxies as well. In mid-June, Russia Today had warned of a possible false-flag attack by NATO-backed militants operating under the cover of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” employing chemical weapons pilfered from devastated, militant-overrun Libya. … Read More
