Gulf Cooperation Council

21st Century Wire says…
Was a coup d’état just inadvertently avoided in Lebanon thanks to Greek port authorities?
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Peace in Yemen will continue to be elusive unless the United Nations shifts its mission from sponsoring an inter-Yemeni dialogue to mediating ceasefire negotiations between the actual warring parties, namely Saudi Arabia & allies and the de facto representatives of Yemenis who are fighting to defend their country’s territorial integrity and independent free will, i.e., the Huthi-Saleh & allies.

[NOTE: Shortly after this story was filed, the UN announced a “humanitarian pause in the country’s ongoing conflict” starting July 10 and expected to last a week. As framed by the UN, the “pause” was agreed to by “Yemen’s President Hadi” as well as the Houthis and “other parties” in Yemen, as if there were no other significant combatants. This deceitful framing omits the most aggressive, undeclared war-making carried out against Yemen by the US, Saudi Arabia, and sundry other UN members.

By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 30.03.2015 The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became very uneasy when the Yemenese or Yemenite movement of the Houthi or Ansarallah (meaning the supporters of God in Arabic) gained control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa/Sana, in September 2014. The US-supported Yemenite President Abd-Rabbuh Manṣour […]

Department of Defense
May 9, 2013
Officials Call for Continued Ballistic Missile Defense Modernization
By Donna Miles
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The proposal also includes funding to implement regional missile defense approaches that Creedon said will be tailored to the unique deterrence and defense requirements of Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific regions.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
May 2, 2013
Deputy Commander Visits Bahrain, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates
Written by Robin Michelle Barnett
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General Bieniek…encouraged Bahrain to develop the Individual Partnerships Cooperation Programme (IPCP), an entry level programme available to all partners.

Voice of Russia
May 1, 2013
Terrorism: It is a duplicitous game which the US is good at playing – Rozoff
Recorded on April 21, 2013
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NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold World Era
Rick Rozoff
One of the most significant developments of the post-Cold War era, and certainly the most ominous, is the transformation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military bloc created by the United States during the genesis of the Cold War in 1949, into one that has grown to encompass the entirety of Europe, has expanded military partnerships throughout the world and has waged war on three continents.

U.S. Department of Defense
April 26, 2013
Eagle Resolve Promotes Gulf Region Cooperation, Interoperability
By Donna Miles

Covering Syria: The Information War
By Aisling Byrne
Originally published in the Asia Times
July 12, 2012
Images and captions added by Color Revolutions and Geopolitics

The narrative that has been constructed by the Western mainstream media on Syria may seem to be self-evident from the scenes presented on television, but it is a narrative duplicitously promoted and