Indictment based on flawed premise: The Hariri Assassination

by GARETH PORTER, source The indictment of four men linked to Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made public by the Special Tribunal on Lebanon Aug. 17 is questionable not because it is based on “circumstantial evidence”, but because that evidence is based on a flawed premise. The evidence depends [...]

In which Franklin Lamb shields a Nigerian from rebel racists and dreams of Chadian ladies

by FRANKLIN LAMB, source Tripoli My roommate left our hotel and hopefully Libya last night for his village near Arlit, Niger thanks to the assistance of one of Tripoli’s Christian Churches. I shall miss him a lot. It was a recently formed human rights group from the Coptic Orthodox (Egyptian) Church in Tripoli, working to [...]

Israeli court rejects al-Walaja’s appeal against wall

by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours , The Electronic Intifada For Sheerin al-Araj, the Israeli plan for the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja is clear: make daily life impossible for its Palestinian residents in an effort to force them off their ancestral lands and empty the village entirely. “They cannot afford [to displace] people by force, in [...]

Palestine: Settlers attack Qasra village, damage olive trees, child succumbs to wounds & attempts to confiscate 4 dunums

Jewish settlers attack Qasra village and damage hundreds of olive trees NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers attacked on Monday evening the village of Qasra to the south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and inflicted damage on a number of fields planted with olive trees. Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of settlements file in [...]

Bahrain situation tense: UN rights body

Press TV A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned that the situation in Bahrain remains “tense and unpredictable” as the Manama regime continues its brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations. “We continue to receive reports of the repression of small protests and understand that at least 264 cases involving protesters remain [...]

Yemenis rally against GCC plan

Press TV Yemeni anti-government protesters have rejected a new initiative to mediate a transfer of power in the country, calling it a US-Saudi plot to crush the revolution that began eight months ago, Press TV reports. Protesters took to the streets in the capital city of Sana’a on Monday chanting, “We reject, we reject, American [...]

September Int’l Deadlines: Syria more immune… France eyeing Algeria

by Nidal Hamadeh, Al Manar In a report published ealier on Al-Manar Website in Arabic last June 24** about the political falling dues that would change the course of the Western pressures on Syria, we had details and information about the issue telling that France and Britain had set next September a deadline for ending [...]

Special treatment gives Israeli mobsters free access to US soil

Special treatment gives Israeli mobsters free access to US soil: WikiLeaks by Ali Abunimah, EI Known Israeli organized crime bosses are able to travel freely to the United States, unlike counterparts from Italy, China and Central America, because the State Department has failed to apply US law to them. It appears that at least one [...]

Palestine: Settler runs over, seriously injures Palestinian child, 10 hurt during storming of Jenin & military presence on borders with Egypt, Gaza

Jewish settler runs over, seriously injures Palestinian child AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Jewish settler ran over a Palestinian child in Al-Khalil city on Sunday evening and seriously injured him, local sources said. They said that the child, Omar Saadi, was hit in the head north of the city and that he was taken to hospital. Many [...]

Bahrainis reject King’s speech, military trials continue

Moqawama Bahraini anti-regime protesters have rejected King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa’s decision to pardon the demonstrators who were arrested during the country’s popular uprising. The protesters took to the streets immediately after the king’s televised speech on Sunday, blaming him for the brutal crackdown on the peaceful demonstrations. “Bahrain will dismiss charges against some people [...]

Egyptians protest Saudi ‘meddling’

Press TV Egyptian people have gathered in front of the Saudi embassy in the capital city of Cairo to protest Riyadh’s interference in their country’s internal affairs. Protesters on Sunday held placards and banners against what they called Saudi Arabia’s interference in Egypt, reports said. The demonstrators proclaimed that Egypt is an independent state, calling [...]

The New-Model Interventionists

Against the Grain by ARNO J. MAYER, source For a while it looked as if Western Europe’s imperial-colonial era had drawn to a close and as if the imperial benefits and burdens it bequeathed to the U.S. were about to be liquidated, as well. But this turns out to be a gross historical misconstruction. The [...]

Black Gold in Indebted State – III

by Eslam al-Rihani, Al Manar Successive Lebanese governments are charged with the negligence of oil file, particularly the government of Siniora, which not only had totally ignored the issue, but also had presented Lebanon’s fortune on a golden plate to those aspirants in its wealth! However, today’s main question is how to get out of [...]

Palestine: Court places mother, her three sons under house arrest & “Israel” planned to assassinate Gaza PM

Israeli court places mother, her three sons under house arrest OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An Israeli court in occupied Jerusalem arbitrarily issued a verdict of house arrest against Palestinian activist Abeer Abu Khadir, three of her sons and one of her relatives, and banned them from leaving Shuafat refugee camp except for work and study. The [...]

Murdoch Press and the Fictional Jewish Chocolatier

by Samah Sabawi, source The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist. The invention of Max Brenner the Jewish chocolatier demonstrated the lack of integrity and journalistic ethics employed within [...]