By Sharmine Narwani – Al-Akhbar – 2013-05-13
The Middle East is treading water these days. Two years of rhetoric about ousting dictators, revolution, freedom, honor, dignity, and democracy – without result – has people on edge, their disillusionment now demanding an outlet.
There are no outlets though. Sensing the fast-growing disenchantment with undelivered promises, even the “bright new leaders” are tightening the reins and demanding compliance.
Has a weapon ever been invented, no matter how terrible, and not used? The crossbow, the dreadnought, poison gas, the tank, the landmine, chemical weapons, napalm, the B-29, the drone: all had their day and for some that day remains now. Even the most terrible weapon of all, the atomic bomb, that city-buster, that potential [...]
Sunday.... And time again for my rant....I have been asked over the last few days why I have been putting up some articles about this "Texas-Israel Day" fiasco that has just occurred in Texas, considering that I do not even live in Texas. Let me put it this way...
By Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett | The Hindu | May 6, 2013
By once again blowing the chance to close a nuclear deal with Iran, the U.S. and its western partners have set themselves up for escalating the conflict with the Islamic republic
We have all been watching the so called "civil war" over the last few months in Syria, where the popular Syrian government forces have been fighting against US-Israeli armed murderous mercenaries (so called "rebels") for control over their country...
MEMO | May 10, 2013
Israel has denounced a paper by the Scottish Church which denies “Jews’ special claim to the land of Israel.”
The paper entitled “The Inheritance of Abraham,” which was published last week rejects “claims that scripture offers any peoples a privileged claim for possession of a particular territory.”
Car bomb or multiple bombs have exploded in a Turkish/Syrian border town.And the spinning has begun....3 hours ago: 40 dead in Turkey car bombings near SyriaPeople gather at the site of a blast which killed and injured a number of people in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, Saturday, May 11, 2013.
