Egypt rejects IMF conditions

Analysis by Emad Mekay CAIRO, Jun 30, 2011 (IPS) – Egypt has cancelled plans to borrow 3 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund because of conditions that violated the country’s national sovereignty and a public outcry that warned against terms that were blamed for impoverishing many Egyptians. According to several Egyptian newspapers, General Sameh [...]

The US military’s A/C bill for Iraq and Afghanistan gives me the shivers

Chill Bill by DAVE LINDORFF, source The United States Military is spending $20.2 billion a year for air-conditioning the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read that again please: $20.2 billion just to provide air-conditioning for our troops in these two desert countries. How much is $20.2 billion? Well, I live in Pennsylvania, where the eighth-largest [...]

Palestine: Farmer ordered to uproot his own trees, land south of Nablus seized, Israeli rabbi urges killing of non-Jews & arrests

“Israel” orders Palestinian farmer to uproot his own trees RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities handed military orders Thursday to a resident of Nabi Samwil, northwest of Jerusalem, ordering him to uproot 100 trees on his land, a Palestinian Authority statement said. Israeli authorities say that the land is part of 1,100 dunums declared as a [...]

Bahrain: ‘Probe is a travesty’, protests after king’s speech, & court adjourns appeals for opp.

‘Bahrain crackdown probe is a travesty’ Press TV Bahrain’s decision to set up an independent committee to investigate the regime’s brutal crackdown during anti-state protests in the littoral Persian Gulf kingdom is a sham, says an activist. “I think the formation of this committee is self-defeating because how you can look into the crimes of [...]

Pressure lessens on Syria while renewal of attack on Lebanon’s Hezbollah

RB note: Notice the series of events, everybody, in the political arena at least, knows that Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas have a strategic alliance and that the Zionists consider an attack on one of them is the same as an attack on all the others. There have been several attacks before but this year [...]

Freedom Flotilla 2: Attack Irish boat, Canadian convoy to head for Gaza where life ‘worse off than ever’

Terrorists Attack Irish Boat Derry Friends of Palestine On Monday the ships 3 crew members along with Clr Gerry MacLochlainn, Charlie McMenamin (both from Derry) with John Mallon and Phil McCullough (both from Belfast) set sail on the MV Saoirse for re-fueling. On the way back Pat Fitzgerald ship’s engineer noticed that something was very [...]

Libya: France arms Libyan opposition

Press TV France has provided Libyan revolutionaries with weapons and food in early June to reinforce them in the fight against forces loyal to the country’s ruler Muammar Gaddafi. “There were humanitarian drops because the humanitarian situation was worsening and at one point it seemed the security situation was threatening civilians who could not defend [...]

US conducts targeted killings in Somalia

Press TV The US military is reportedly making use of remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles in Somalia in order to conduct targeted killings in the Horn of Africa nation. An unnamed senior US military official said on Wednesday that the United States carried out a drone attack in Somalia last week, The Washington Post reported. The [...]

Pakistan tells US to leave secret base

Press TV Pakistan’s defense minister has ordered the United States to leave a remote desert airbase in the country’s southwestern Balochistan province. Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar says Shamsi secret airbase is reportedly being used for unmanned drone attacks and will soon be passed onto the Pakistani army. “We have told them (US officials) to leave the [...]

Activists determined to sail despite sabotage, threats

by Apostolis Fotiadis, The Electronic Intifada ATHENS (IPS) – Activists are being confronted by Israeli authorities days before the international “Freedom Flotilla II — Stay Human” sets sail towards the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the naval blockade Israel has imposed since 2007. The flotilla will include ten ships that have already reached [...]

“After You Brother!” Qadaffi stays and Obama leaves?

by Franklin Lamb, Al Manar – Tripoli, Libya The 6/27/11 International Criminal Courts (ICC) arrest warrants issued for Muammar Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, and Libya intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi, however pleasing to the “rebels” and NATO, probably won’t have much effect on negotiating a settlement between the two camps and certainly the warrants [...]

We are Liberating Palestine … Yes We Are!

The continuation of very good satire- A Trilogy: The Road to “Independence” (1): We are Negotiating … Yes We Are! A Trilogy: The Road to “Independence” (2) by Reham Alhelsi, A voice from Palestine Liberation is an art; an art we excel at. We liberated Jericho, we liberated Ramallah, we liberated Bethlehem, we liberated Jenin, [...]

Bahrain: Regime frees medics but vows military suit & Saudi forces start to “redeploy”

Bahrain frees medics, vows military suit Press TV The Bahraini regime has released 20 more medical professionals accused of anti- state activities but vows that they would soon face military trials. Military trials of 48 doctors and paramedics that were detained during a brutal crackdown on massive Bahraini protests in March are to continue, even [...]

Palestine: IOF confiscates Ramallah land, Pal. prisoners denied visitation rights, Sheikh Raed Salah arrested in UK & other Israeli crimes

IOF confiscates hundreds of Ramallah dunums RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) confiscated hundreds of Palestinian dunums surrounding the villages of Mazra’a Gharbiya and Janiya to the west of Ramallah city, citizens told the PIC on Tuesday. Supplying the PIC with the published map, they said that IOF troops and settlers stormed the confiscated land [...]

Egypt: Scores injured in fresh Cairo protests

Fresh Cairo protests leave 1,000 injured Press TV Overnight clashes in the Egyptian capital of Cairo have left over 1,000 people injured as the scuffles between security forces and protesters enter a second day. New clashes broke out on Wednesday morning in central Cairo as riot police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters who [...]