October 2009
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By on October 22, 2009
Commenting on remarks by Zbigniew Brzezinski that the U.S. might shoot down Israeli warplanes if they flew over Iraq to attack Iran, the former deputy commander of US European Command said: “The chance of that is zero – no, less than zero”
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By on October 22, 2009
Suspicions of foreign involvement have been aroused because of the accuracy of intelligence that enabled terrorists to target Sunday’s meeting of senior Guards officers and tribal leaders, killing the deputy head of the Guards’ ground forces
Posted in Iran
By on October 21, 2009
And the real reasons for Irana-phobia
Posted in Iran
By on October 21, 2009
Morale might be poor but opium production is at an all-time high and that’s what counts. Especially after the Taliban had all but shutdown Afghanistan’s drug trade
Posted in Afghanistan
By on October 21, 2009
Of all the events I’ve covered surrounding Jewish identity and Israel in the last year, none has given me so much pleasure as the lecture last night by Shlomo Sand at NYU on the Invention of the Jewish People. Philip Weiss reports on the proceedings
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By on October 21, 2009
Researching a book about literary hoaxes led me to investigate a sub-section of the misery-memoir genre which often left me reeling in amazement: the Holocaust hoaxers
Posted in Hidden and Revisionist History
By on October 20, 2009
The death toll rises after a terror bombing in southeast Iran, which Tehran is blaming on insurgents backed by Britain and America
Posted in Iran
By wmw_admin on October 20, 2009
In July 2001 the Taliban had effectively shutdown Afghanistan’s drugs exports. But the allied invasion in November reopened the lucrative trade and under coalition forces business is now booming. This is the real reason we are in Afghanistan
Posted in Afghanistan
By on October 20, 2009
Not so outlandish as it may sound, particularly when you consider why Western forces are REALLY in Afghanistan. For a clue see the above story from May 2001 – a mere six months before the U.S. led invasion
Posted in Afghanistan
By on October 20, 2009
Taliban reportedly using “heavy weapons” in answer to the offensive
Posted in Afghanistan
By on October 20, 2009
Despite the Western drive to isolate it, both China and Russia are developing stronger ties with Iran
Posted in Iran
By on October 20, 2009
Seems like the only people benefiting from the supposed easing of the economic downturn are those who triggered it. With Goldman Sachs expected to pay bonuses of $23 billion in 2009 – double what was paid in 2008
Posted in Economics
By on October 20, 2009
According to a report in Le Canard Enchainé, Israel has ordered high-quality combat rations from a French food manufacturer for soldiers serving in elite units and has also asked reservists of these units staying abroad to return to Israel
Posted in Israel, 'Anti-Semitism', Zionism and US-UK allies
By on October 19, 2009
The timing of this attack is significant. Coming on the eve of negotiations in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program it will cast a shadow over proceedings and could harden Iran’s position, which was maybe the intention
Posted in Iran
By Rebel of Oz on October 19, 2009
Only a small minority of us have the mental capacity to recognise that our world is just a Matrix-like virtual reality and that we are blindly marching towards a one-world tyranny. Even fewer of us have the psychological make-up to stand up and fight
Posted in Commentary