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Seymour Hersh: liar and pro-fascist propagandist?
In April 2014, the London Review of Books published an article by Seymour Hersh, entitled ‘The Red Line and the Rat Line’, which challenged the Obama administration’s claim that only the Assad regime...
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Dozens killed and injured, ambulances and hospitals targeted, in fighting in...
According to The International Committee of the Red Cross. ‘The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Libyan Red Crescent are concerned about the humanitarian consequences of the...
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The New York Times on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Conveniently enough, and just at the moment that the U.S. might be preparing to work with the Revolutionary Guards in Iraq (either openly or tacitly), it seems that there has been a sea change in...
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Recently published U.N. General Assembly report on ‘Children and armed...
The report purports to give an overview of all the ways in which children were adversely affected – to put it mildly – in various conflict zones around the world in 2013. The section on Israel/Occupied...
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David Cameron spoke to Benyamin Netanyahu today. Here’s what was said.
From the Gov.uk website: ‘The Prime Minister spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier this evening about the situation in Israel. The Prime Minister strongly condemned the appalling attacks being...
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Ex-NYT editor Jill Abramson on how flak and ‘anti-terrorism’ help discipline...
She didn’t quite put it in those words, but it’s essentially what she’s saying: that the U.S. government would contact the New York Times and tell them that publishing this, that or the other story...
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Owen Jones on having empathy for the devil.
In an article in Sunday’s Guardian, Jones writes about why he doesn’t think demonizing Israelis for supporting their governments current onslaught in Gaza is particularly useful. He says: ‘For those...
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War crime in Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera America on how a U.S. backed paramilitary unit carried out the extrajudicial executions of three men in Alizai, a village in eastern Afghanistan, on June 1st 2014. Mohammad, Nasrullah and...
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The Times amplifies Israeli propaganda.
And what The Goldstone Report found the last time Israel fired on hospitals in Gaza, and then accused Hamas of using them as military bases: ‘The Mission did not find any evidence to support the...
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Tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers.
According to The New York Times, four civilians, including two women, were killed in a U.S. lead airstrike in Shindand, Afghanistan on Wednesday. The article outlines how: The strike took place a day...
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Jonathan Rugman on Iraq.
On August 8th 2014, the U.S. announced that they had started carrying out air strikes in northern Iraq. The major reason given for this was that the United States couldn’t stand idly by while the...
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Compare and Contrast: Cluster Bomb Usage in Syria, July 2014 Vs September 2014.
Rick Gladstone, writing in The New York Times, July 30th 2014: ‘Cluster bombs, internationally banned weapons that can maim and destroy indiscriminately, not only have been frequently used for the past...
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The U.S.’s ‘successful’ counter-terror campaigns in Somalia and Yemen.
On Wednesday 10th September, Barack Obama made a major foreign policy speech, in which he set out how the U.S. and anyone who cares to tag along plan to ‘degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a...
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International Committee of the Red Cross: U.S. airstrikes making a bad...
In August 2013, when the U.S. et al looked set to start bombing Syria in response to what they claimed was a chemical weapon attack by the Assad regime in Ghouta, The International Committee of the Red...
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Airstrikes in Syria: could the Assad regime ultimately be the target?
The air strikes in Syria to date have largely targeted ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra. My hunch is that they will ultimately be targeted at the Assad regime, although some dispute this. Guardian columnist...
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More evidence that the U.S. ultimately sees the overthrow of Assad as the end...
From an interview General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, recently did with CNN: QUESTION: But in the short term, it...
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Swept Aside: The Guardian on Libya in 2011 Vs Amnesty on Libya in 2014
In October 2011, The Guardian published an article by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt – two of their most senior political reporters – entitled ‘How David Cameron Swept Aside Sceptics Over Libya...
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CNN: Obama administration reportedly ‘shifting their strategy’ on Syria to go...
From an article published by CNN on 13/11/3014: ‘President Barack Obama has asked his national security team for another review of the U.S. policy toward Syria after realizing that ISIS may not be...
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Tony Blair wins Save The Children’s ‘Global Legacy’ award.
As reported in today’s Independent: Tony Blair was last night recognised for his humanitarian work at a glamorous gala to raise funds for a global children’s charity – in front of guests including...
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Massacres that matter.
There was one in Pakistan, in October 2006, which barely registered at the time, and which likely won’t be referenced now, despite the obvious comparisons to be drawn in the wake of today’s terrible...
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