Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez voices support for his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the CIA is instigating post-election conflict in Iran.
Chavez said Wednesday that the “imperial hand” of the US Central Intelligence Agency and its European allies had provoked post-election unrest in Iran.
“People are in the streets, some are dead, they have snipers, and behind [...]
June 25, 2009
Chavez believes CIA caused Iran unrest…
June 25, 2009
Pakistan PM urges Obama aide to halt drone strikes…
Pakistan’s prime minister Thursday told Washington’s visiting top security adviser that the United States must halt drone attacks on its soil, after they killed dozens of people in the northwest.
James Jones held talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as part of a short regional tour that has already taken in neighbouring Afghanistan to assess [...]
June 25, 2009
The Western media and Iran…
by Matthew Cassel
Source: The Electronic Intifada
Protestors, anywhere in the world, are extremely brave individuals whose reasons for demonstrating openly should be listened to and respected. Protest is democracy at work. However, too often, US and other Western-based media pick and choose which protests to cover and which to ignore completely.
The US media often celebrate themselves [...]
June 25, 2009
$4 billion unaccounted for in this year’s Iraqi budget…
Massive amounts of money go unaccounted for in Iraq and this year’s fraud could hit more than $4 billion dollars, Iraqi government officials say.
The officials, refusing to be named, said that would reduce this year’s budget to $54.6 billion from $58.6.
One official said evidence was there but people lacked the courage to take the case [...]
June 25, 2009
Lawyer: Spanish prosecution of Bush lawyers will proceed…
The Spanish lawyer working to indict six former Bush administration attorneys for their roles in the US’s torture program says the case will go ahead in Spanish courts.
Gonzalo Boyé, a private lawyer in Spain, is working to indict the so-called “Bush Six” lawyers who gave the Bush administration its rationale for carrying out the systematic [...]
June 25, 2009
Deadliest US missile strikes in Pakistan…
A look the deadliest US missile strikes in Pakistan…
Unmanned U.S. drone aircraft have fired missiles at suspected militant targets in Pakistan’s tribal region dozens of times in the past two years. Here are details of some of the deadliest attacks, based on information from Pakistani officials:
_June 24, 2009: Four suspected U.S. missiles strike a funeral [...]
June 25, 2009
Iranian Interior Minister: Western Intelligence Behind Riots And Unrest…
Iran’s interior minister, Sadeq Mahsouli has accused Western intelligence of backing the riots in Iran following the controversial election results.
Mahsouli’s comments were given very little mainstream media coverage, but were picked up by AFP and Reuters.
Mahsouli has claimed that U.S., U.K., and Israeli interests are behind the unrest.
“Britain, America and the Zionist regime (Israel) were [...]
June 25, 2009
Police say bomb kills 7 in southwest Baghdad, other bombs kill 2…
A bombing at a bus station in a Shiite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad on Thursday killed at least seven people and wounded 31 others, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks ahead of a U.S. military withdrawal from cities next week.
Another three bombs and a mortar killed two more people around the [...]
June 25, 2009
Bagram, the new Guantánamo…
Why is Britain conniving at the evil work of the US’s secret site in Afghanistan where rendered prisoners are routinely abused?
The BBC’s revelations about prisoner abuse at the US prison at Bagram airforce base in Afghanistan are the latest in a long line of revelations about abuse at US prisons around the world.
President Obama told [...]
June 25, 2009
North Korea vows to enlarge its atomic arsenal…
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea vowed Thursday to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” in the event of a U.S. attack, as the regime marked the 1950 outbreak of the Korean War.
The anniversary came as the U.S. Navy followed a North Korean ship suspected of carrying weapons [...]
