Civil War Has Begun in Ukraine

05-11-2014 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Eric Zuesse

“Today’s massacre is Mariupol. They are just shooting people. They shot 12 cops that would not take part and about 18 (number on the fly right now).

69 Killed, 84 Wounded in Fresh Iraq Attacks

01-27-2014 • antiwar.com

At least 69 people were killed across Iraq, and another 84 were wounded.

What really happened when a U.S. drone hit a Yemeni wedding convoy?

01-20-2014 • Al Jazerra

On Dec. 12, 2013, shortly before the sun dipped behind the mountains and left a handful of modest stone-built homes and grazing goats in a fading silhouette, the ground shook. Across the valley, black smoke billowed into the sky. In the moments

: From Al-Qaida Reject to Reuters

12-23-2013 • Honest Reporting

A Reuters photographer, Molhem Barakat, was killed in Aleppo on Friday. Some emerging details of his life are raising uncomfortable questions for the wire service and for the press corps covering Israel and the PA.

Christmas Day bombings in Iraq's capital kill 37

12-25-2013 • AP

Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in 3 separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people. In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church in the capital’s southern Dora neighborhood, killing 26 people and wounding 38

Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake-officials

12-12-2013 • Reuters

Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said. The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province,

The Iranian bomb - The song

08-20-2010 • Latma

Even more timely today.

US Must Be Held to Account for Drone Killings in Pakistan

10-22-2013 • http://www.commondreams.org

New evidence indicates that the USA has carried out unlawful killings in Pakistan through drone attacks, some of which could even amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said in a major new report released today.

War with Syria and Iran will be Hell on Earth-Gerald Celente

09-27-2013 • Lewrockwell.com

Trends researcher Gerald Celente says President Obama’s handling of the Syrian conflict deeply damaged his credibility. Celente says, “It was the presidential amateur hour and reality show all rolled into one. I have never seen such poor performanc

Securing Syria's Weapons May Require US Troops

09-14-2013 • http://www.military.com

Defense Department officials were less certain Thursday on whether U.S. military personnel might be sent to help secure or destroy Syria's chemical weapons.

The Isolated War Party

09-12-2013 • blog.independent.org

It’s a trying time for the warmongers. A deluge of national polls reveal a public decidedly against war with Syria.

Syria - Why Now?

09-10-2013 • arclein

But it’s a mistaken one. However well intentioned this effort may be, there’s no evidence to suggest that the “quick and surgical” strikes proposed by the Obama administration will meaningfully change Assad’s behavior. But there’s ample reason to con

’We’re not talking about war’: Kerry outlines ’unbelievably small’ strike on Syria

09-09-2013 • The Globe and Mail

“We’re not going to war,” Mr. Kerry told reporters after meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in London. “We will be able to hold [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging troops on the ground or any

Pentagon adjusts plans for more intense attacks on Syria

09-08-2013 • Los Angeles Times

The Pentagon is preparing for a longer bombardment of Syria than it originally had planned, with a heavy barrage of missile strikes followed soon after by more attacks on targets that the opening salvos missed or failed to destroy, officials said.

Carville: People Are Freaking Out About Syria Because Of Bush And Iraq

09-05-2013 • realclearpolitics.com

BILL O'REILLY: I think you've got to take emotion out of the equation. I see a lot of that emotion. I mean, Barbara Boxer, for example, would never support an action against Syria if Mitt Romney were president. Never in a million years. The only reas

Real Nobel Peace Prize Winner Tells Us About Her Visit To Syria

09-04-2013 • Lew Rockwell blog

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire tells of her visit to Syria. The people the US are funding are violent groups and do not want peace in Syria. Syria is being used as a proxy war by the U.S., Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Russia Boosts Mediterranean Flotilla as U.S. Weighs Syria Strike

09-04-2013 • Prison Planet

Russia is sending three more ships to the east Mediterranean to bolster its fleet there as a U.S. Senate panel will consider President Barack Obama’s request for authority to conduct a military strike on Syria.