International
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Likening Palestinians to Blades of Grass
Exclusive: Israeli hardliners joke about the periodic need to decimate each new generation of Palestinian militants as “mowing the grass,” a process underway again in new bombardments of Gaza. This ugly metaphor has also penetrated the think-tank world of Official Washington, as ex-CIA analyst Elizabeth… Read More ›
Journalists injured in Israeli attack
Israeli war planes have struck two media buildings in Gaza City, injuring at least eight journalists, including one who lost his leg, medical officials say. Separately, Israeli air strikes continued in other parts of Gaza, including the north, where two… Read More ›
Israel Kills More Civilians as Gaza Attacks Escalate
Israeli warplanes attacked the Interior Ministry today in the Gaza Strip and killed two senior Hamas military commanders in some of what were ultimately at least 200 distinct attacks against the tiny strip today alone. Other strikes hit refugee camps in the strip, and several… Read More ›
“Free Syrian Army” Threatens Red Crescent
Sources of the Syrian Red Crescent told “al-Intiqad” website it had received a threat from the so-called “Free Syrian Army”, forbidding their vehicles from hospitalizing Syrian army soldiers. The source confirmed that those who threatened the Red Crescent were the… Read More ›
Jihad Misharawi, BBC Journalist, Loses Son Omar In Israeli Strike On Gaza
The infant son of a BBC journalist was killed by an Israeli air strike on Gaza on Wednesday night. The BBC said that Jihad Misharawi, who works for the BBC Arabic service, lost his 11-month son Omar after their house… Read More ›
Is Israel Escalating War on Gaza to Foil US-Iran Deal?
by John Glaser The flare up of violence between Israel and Gaza looks like its about to escalate, with an Israeli airstrike today killing a Hamas commander and Israeli military leadership talking openly about the possibility of an expanded war on Gaza,… Read More ›
Israel calls up reservists, gets ready for Gaza invasion
The IDF announces a widespread campaign on “terror targets” and begins bombing the Gaza Strip, preparing for a ground operation. This comes after the head of Hamas’ military wing Ahmed Jabari was killed in an Israeli airstrike. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES… Read More ›
Hamas says now in ‘open war’ with Israel, promises ‘gates of hell’
Hamas says that it is now in a state of “open war” indefinitely with Israel after the killing of the Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari by an Israeli airstrike. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES The assassination has “opened the gates of hell,” the Ezzedine al-Qassam… Read More ›
France recognizes new Syria opposition
By Yasmine Saleh and John Irish CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) – France became the first European power to recognize Syria’s new opposition coalition as the sole representative of its people and said on Tuesday it would look into arming rebels against President… Read More ›
Bales ignored ‘We are children!’ shouts, Afghan witnesses say
The Afghan children awakened in the dead of night with a terrifying warning: An American soldier was in their village, and he had shot at least one man to death. “He killed my man,” their neighbor’s wife cried as she… Read More ›
Where did America’s missing millions go? Holodomor Lessons
The posting of this article does not imply endorsement of the views of the author. — The Red Phoenix Editorial Board. U.S. history contains a serious crime against its own people – the Great American Holodomor of 1932/33, which cost… Read More ›
4000 “Free Syrian Army” Militiamen Attack Damascus: Minorities, Palestinians Among Those Attacked
The upsurge of violence in Syria since the last week seems more and more to be an attempt to surround the Syrian capital from different axes. Three days later, it proved to be a failure. However, by bombed-car attacks, explosives… Read More ›
As Sanctions Hit Iran’s Most Vulnerable, the Man Who Dared to Feed Sanction-Starved Iraq Remains in Prison
by John Pilger In 1999, I traveled to Iraq with Denis Halliday, who had resigned as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain,… Read More ›
U.S. wanted to turn all of Okinawa Island into base site in 1945-46: documents
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military was planning between 1945 to 1946 to use all of Okinawa Island as a permanent site for its bases, declassified U.S. documents have shown. The documents are the latest evidence to apparently reinforce the background… Read More ›
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