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  • Is America the World’s Largest Sponsor of Terrorism?

    The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister. The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and…

  • The Nature of the U.S. Military Presence in Africa

    On July 12th, TomDispatch posted the latest piece in Nick Turse’s “changing face of empire » series: “Obama’s Scramble for Africa.” It laid out in some detail the way in which the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has, in recent years, spread its influence across that continent, establishing bases and outposts, sending in special operations forces and…

  • Report: Syrian rebels acquired surface-to-air missiles

    Rebels fighting to depose Syrian president Bashar Assad have for the first time acquired a small supply of surface-to-air missiles, according to a news report that a Western official did not dispute. A Free Syrian Army spokesperson denied the report. NBC News reported Tuesday night that the rebel Free Syrian Army had obtained nearly two…

  • German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria

    German intelligence estimates that « around 90 » terror attacks that « can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups » were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July, as reported by the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). This was revealed by the German government…

  • Covering Syria: The information war

    The narrative that has been constructed by the Western mainstream media on Syria may seem to be self-evident from the scenes presented on television, but it is a narrative duplicitously promoted and coordinated so as to conceal and facilitate the regime-change project that is part of the war on Iran. What we are seeing is…

  • The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking?

    It’s important to stress: to investigate the background of a Syrian spokesperson is not to doubt the sincerity of his or her opposition to Assad. But a passionate hatred of the Assad regime is no guarantee of independence. Indeed, a number of key figures in the Syrian opposition movement are long-term exiles who were receiving…

  • New NSA docs contradict 9/11 claims

    Many of the documents publicize for the first time what was first made clear in the 9/11 Commission: The White House received a truly remarkable amount of warnings that al-Qaida was trying to attack the United States. From June to September 2001, a full seven CIA Senior Intelligence Briefs detailed that attacks were imminent, an…

  • U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa

    The U.S. military is expanding its secret intelligence operations across Africa, establishing a network of small air bases to spy on terrorist hideouts from the fringes of the Sahara to jungle terrain along the equator, according to documents and people involved in the project. At the heart of the surveillance operations are small, unarmed turboprop…

  • Report: Syrian Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre

    A new report in one of Germany’s leading newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and most of the victims killed were members of the Alawi and Shia minorities, which have been largely supportive of Assad. The reports cites anonymous opponents of Assad who admitted their involvement in…

  • ‘UN Commissioner report on Houla? But they only talk to Syrian opposition – by phone’

    The Houla Massacre is to be brought before a rare gathering of the UN Human Rights Council. But what kind of findings will be presented? Anti-war campaigner Marinella Corregia worries the HR commissioner talks only to its sources: the opposition. The meeting, set for Friday, has been called by 21 of the 47 council members….