By Alex Thomson, Chief Correspondent, Channel 4 News A Syrian Army source gives the first account of what is believed to have been a chemical attack – and it could mean that one of the West’s biggest fears is about… Read More ›
International
Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
Report: huge increase in US troops in South Korea
Both USFK and SK Ministry of National Defense dispute figures that show troop levels far above the agreed upon 28,500 By Kim Kyu-won and Gil Yun-hyung, staff reporters USFK troop levels, which have remained consistently in the 26,000 to 29,000… Read More ›
Nazi propaganda to be banned in Russia
Russian senators are drafting a bill on prohibiting the glorification of Nazi crimes and the usage of any Nazi or similar symbols and gestures in the country. Violation of the law will be punishable by a fine from 300,000 rubles… Read More ›
Palestinian hunger striker released, exiled to Gaza
A Palestinian prisoner has been exiled to Gaza for ten years, after a long-term hunger strike led the Israelis to sign a deal, releasing the inmate from prison, after holding him without charge for months. “Palestinian prisoner Ayman Sharawna, who… Read More ›
Obama makes fun of heckler asking “who killed Rachel Corrie?”
by Linah Alsaafin US President Barack Obama arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah by helicopter yesterday and gave yet another insipid speech. The Palestinian Authority’s security forces, collaborating with US forces, designated a huge security perimeter with the PA compound — the Muqataa — in… Read More ›
Iraq War Could Cost $6 Trillion
by John Glaser The current price tag is already at $2 trillion The US war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans. But the cost could grow to more than $6 trillion over the… Read More ›
Huge Drop in Workers at City-Sized US Embassy in Baghdad
Cost-Cutting to See 10,000 Withdraw This Year by Jason Ditz A Vatican-sized fortress along the Tigris River, the US Embassy to Iraq is the stuff of legends, a $730 million testament to the runaway overspending of the occupation era. Ten years after… Read More ›
Dirty Wars: Pope Francis’ Ties to Argentina’s Right-wing Junta
Democracy Now! reports this morning: While praised for his work with the poor, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — now Pope Francis — has long been dogged by accusations of his role during Argentina’s military dictatorship. We speak to Horacio Verbitsky,… Read More ›
Fascism Comes to Queens
Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party that has tormented Greece and terrorized immigrants, has now brought its fascist message of anti-democratic intimidation to New York City. On March 2, New York supporters of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had planned… Read More ›
Israel’s Peres urges Arab intervention in Syria
By Martine Pauwels (AFP) STRASBOURG, France — Israel’s Shimon Peres called Tuesday for Arab intervention “to stop the massacre” in Syria as he delivered the first speech by an Israeli head of state to the European Parliament in almost three… Read More ›
‘If you were a man, we’d kill you’: Captive journalist tells RT how she escaped Syrian rebels
‘I couldn’t bear it any longer’, recalls Anhar Kochneva. The Ukrainian journalist who escaped Syrian rebels five months after she was kidnapped told RT about what she had to go through while in captivity and how she managed to run… Read More ›
Libyan Women Face Islamist Rise Since Gaddafi Fall
By MAGGIE MICHAEL On her way back from her job as a lecturer at a university near Tripoli, Libyan poet Aicha Almagrabi was stopped by a group of bearded militiamen. They kicked her car, beat up her driver and threatened… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 