February 2008
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By on February 19, 2008
A Beltway insider reports on the muted frenzy at Langley over transcripts of telephone conversations between a very senior CIA official and a reporter
Posted in Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway
By on February 19, 2008
First published more than a decade ago, Benjamin Ginsberg’s examination of Jewish power is perhaps even more pertinent than when it was first published. With the rise of the neocons, it is as Dr Stephen J. Sniegoski writes an intellectual bombshell
Posted in Hidden and Revisionist History
By on February 19, 2008
Drugs were the real reason for the invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban had effectively stopped opium production, which is why they had to be removed. Now opium production is booming and the drugs trade has a stranglehold on the Afghan economy
Posted in Afghanistan
By on February 18, 2008
The band’s lead singer reveals how a privare show at the Kremlin went
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on February 18, 2008
It’s not only the U.S. and Israel who is concerned about Iran: Saudi Arabia is too. Which is why the Saudi Foreign Minister was in Moscow Thursday to deliver a “vital” message in person to President Putin
Posted in Iran
By on February 18, 2008
Don’t be fooled: it may sound alarmist and U.S. forces may be stretched to the limit in Iraq and Afghanistan; but the Zionists haven’t given up on the idea of striking at Iran. Using the U.S. military, of course
Posted in Iran
By on February 18, 2008
Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson makes his case – and how the BBC went out of its way to disparage it
Posted in Princess Diana. What Really Happened?
By on February 18, 2008
Bereaved relatives of 9/11 victims talk about how the skies over the U.S. were left undefended on that fateful day and how their perceptions have changed since. More 9/11 revelations, detailed and convincing
Posted in September 11
By on February 17, 2008
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the cabinet Sunday that Syria and Iran my assist Hezbollah in retaliation for the assassination of its deputy leader Tuesday in Damascus. “It’s safe to assume Hezbollah will try to retaliate for the assassination of Imad Mughniyah, possibly with Iranian and Syrian assistance,” Barak said. The defense minister said Mughniyah’s [...]
Posted in Current Affairs
By on February 17, 2008
As Iranian TV broadcast grainy footage of the inferno produced by the blast (left), Iran and Syria announced a joint probe into the bombing which killed one of Hezbollah’s senior commanders
Posted in Current Affairs
By on February 17, 2008
More evidence that the one time “Land of the Free” is transforming into a police state
Posted in September 11
By on February 17, 2008
Nothing is more threatening to tyrants than an informed public, writes Peter Chambers, as he exposes some of the myths and half-truths behind the “War on Terror”
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on February 17, 2008
“With fighting in Afghanistan now entering its seventh year, no agreed international strategy, public support on both sides of the Atlantic crumbling, NATO in disarray and widening insecurity in Afghanistan, defeat is now a real possibility…”
Posted in Afghanistan
By on February 17, 2008
“Terror” convictions found on closer inspection to be without foundation
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on February 17, 2008
There is one survey of Hitler’s concentration camps that is almost unique in its impartiality and honesty: a three-volume Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during WWII
Posted in Hidden and Revisionist History
By on February 16, 2008
Ehsan Ahrari looks at the likely outcome of Imad Mughniyeh’s assassination Wednesday
Posted in Current Affairs
By Robert Fisk on February 16, 2008
Live by the sword, as they say, and you die by the sword. Robert Fisk reflects on the life and times Imad Mougnieh: a senior Hizbollah commander who was assassinated in Damascus
Posted in Current Affairs
By on February 16, 2008
The Beltway insider returns this week with a brief report on health hazards posed by some Chinese products – with the connivance of the Bush administration
Posted in Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway