US President Barack Obama said the international community must act after North Korea’s “reckless” nuclear and missile tests on Monday, as calls grew for tougher action against Pyongyang.
“North Korea’s nuclear ballistic missile programs pose a great threat to the peace and security of the world and I strongly condemn their reckless action,” Obama said ahead [...]
May 25, 2009
Obama calls for action after North Korea nuclear test…
May 25, 2009
War Criminal Tony Blair believed God wanted him to go to war to fight evil, claims his mentor…
Tony Blair viewed his decision to go to war in Iraq and Kosovo as part of a “Christian battle”, according to one of his closest political allies…
The former Prime Minister’s faith is claimed to have influenced all his key policy decisions and to have given him an unshakeable conviction that he was right.
John Burton, Mr [...]
May 25, 2009
Hard-line Israeli party to introduce loyalty bill…
An ultranationalist party headed by the Israeli foreign minister said Monday it has prepared legislation linking citizenship to an oath of allegiance, in what amounted to a threat to the country’s Arabs to swear loyalty to the Jewish state or risk severe punishment.
The bill follows a separate proposal Sunday by the same party that would [...]
May 25, 2009
Neocon Group Calls for Military Strikes on Media…
by Jeremy Scahill
Source: Antiwar.com
In the era of embedded media, independent journalists have become the eyes and ears of the world. Without those un-embedded journalists willing to risk their lives to place themselves on the other side of the barrel of the tank or the gun or under the air strikes, history would be written almost [...]
May 25, 2009
UK: 325 MPs to be swept away at next election…
AT least half of the House of Commons’ 646 MPs will be swept away at the general election, as voters take revenge on the political classes for the expenses scandal.
The departure of 325 members of parliament as a result of forced resignations, retirement and defeat at the polls would represent the biggest clear-out of parliament [...]
May 25, 2009
Netanyahu says settlements can expand…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says settlements in the occupied West Bank will be allowed to expand despite US objections…
Mr Netanyahu said no new settlements would be built, but natural growth in existing settlements should be allowed.
During Mr Netanyahu’s visit to the US last week, President Barack Obama told him all settlement activity must end.
The [...]
May 25, 2009
US Holds Journalist Without Charges in Iraq…
Ibrahim Jassam is the latest journalist the US has arrested but not charged. A journalists advocacy group says such actions hurt US standing when it speaks for press freedom and rule of law…
Baghdad – The soldiers came at 1:30 a.m, rousing family members who were sleeping on the roof to escape the late-summer heat.
They broke [...]
May 25, 2009
Poll: 51 percent of Israelis want immediate attack on Iran…
Just over half of Israelis back an immediate attack on the nuclear facilities of arch-foe Iran but the rest want to wait and see the results of US diplomacy, according to a poll released on Sunday.
Fifty-one percent support an immediate Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, while 49 percent believe the Jewish state should await [...]
May 25, 2009
Eight killed in suicide attack on US troops in Iraq…
Baghdad – Eight people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives at a US patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, but Iraq’s Minister of National Security insisted the country was ‘90-per-cent secure.’
The explosion, which took place in the Mosul neighbourhood of al-Duwasa, also killed the bomber [...]
May 25, 2009
North Korea conducts nuclear weapons test…
North Korea has announced that it tested a nuclear weapon this morning, triggering an artificial earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7….
“We successfully conducted another underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of measures aimed at strengthening our self-defence nuclear deterrent in every way,” said the state-run North Korean news wire.
“The latest nuclear test was [...]
May 25, 2009
Iran: They May Not Want The Bomb…
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What’s the evidence? Well, over the last five years, senior [...]
