Tehran invokes revolutionary fervor

by M K Bhadrakumar, source On Monday, Iran’s powerful Guardian Council endorsed the Majlis’ resolution adopted the previous day to downgrade the country’s ties with Britain. The speed with which the process gathered momentum conveys the message that it carries the stamp of a decision at the highest levels of the Iranian leadership. That and [...]

Palestine: IOF soldiers raid central Gaza, arrests & 100 olives trees uprooted in Salfit

IOF soldiers raid central Gaza amidst intensive shooting GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced a few hundred meters to the east of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Wednesday amidst intensive shooting at residential quarters. Local sources said that the soldiers in three army tanks and a number of armored vehicles escorted [...]

Bahrain adjourns trials of medics, athletes & joint military drill held with US

Bahrain adjourns trials of medics, athletes Moqawama Twenty Bahraini medics who were arrested after treating injured protests during anti-government demonstrations last February have had their retrials adjourned until the New Year. The group of doctors, nurses and paramedics were initially tried and convicted in September of incitement to overthrow the ruling system. All received prison [...]

Iraqis protest Joe Biden’s visit

Press TV Hundreds of Iraqis have taken to the streets of Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, to condemn a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden to their country. Chanting anti-US slogans, the demonstrators described Biden’s unannounced visit to Iraq as Washington’s last attempts to pressure Iraqi leaders into agreeing with keeping a [...]

US police dismantle two anti-wall street protest camps

Al Manar Hundreds of police flooded into downtown Los Angeles and Philadelphia early Wednesday to clear anti-Wall Street protest camps where dozens were arrested. The latest moves targeting the two-month-old protest movement against corporate greed and inequality came days after announced eviction deadlines. In Los Angeles, dozens of officers in helmets formed lines to seal [...]

Moroccans protest election results

Press TV People in Morocco have taken to the streets again to denounce Friday’s general elections that brought to power the head of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), Press TV reports. Protesters chanted slogans, condemning the elections and the results. They insisted that the polls were a complete farce. Results show the PJD, the [...]

“Israel” uses Facebook girls to recruit Jordanian youths

Moqawama Head of Prisons and Detention Centers Committee in the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Jordan, lawyer Abdul Karim Shraideh has warned of “Israeli’s” Mossad intelligence grooming young Jordanians to be spies. Contact is first established via social networking site “Facebook” for recruiting them to obtain information about the Jordanian Tribal Movement, or any [...]

Private security guards kill with impunity in East Jerusalem

by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours, The Electronic Intifada SILWAN, occupied East Jerusalem – Ahmed Qaraeen walks with a limp, more than two years after he was shot twice, in the hip and left knee, by an Israeli settler near his home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. “It was Ramadan,” Qaraeen said, his grey crutch leaning [...]

Palestine: Israelis order demolition of OJ home, fishermen & cancer patient arrested

IOA orders demolition of Jerusalemite home OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority served a home demolition notice to a Jerusalemite family on Monday at the pretext the house was built without permit. Fakhri Abu Diyab, a member of the committee for the defense of Silwan land, said that the IOA claimed that the home [...]

Egyptians vote for second day

Al Manar Egyptians are casting their ballots for the second day, with turnout so far described as “very high”. On Tuesday, polls opened again, a day after voters across the country waited in long queues on Monday to vote for a new parliament — the start of multi-stage elections. But the arrival of people on [...]

Bahraini court resumes retrial of medics

Press TV A civilian court in Bahrain has resumed the retrial of doctors and nurses who treated injured protesters during the anti-regime demonstrations earlier this year. During Monday’s proceedings against the medical professionals, the prosecutors brought weapons into the courtroom, claiming the arms were recovered in March at the Salmaniya Medical Center in the capital [...]

Kuwaiti cabinet resigns ahead of grilling

Press TV Kuwaiti government has resigned ahead of a scheduled questioning in parliament of the prime minister over an alleged corruption scandal. Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al Sabah and his cabinet resigned on Monday in response to escalating pressure by protesters and opposition lawmakers demanding the resignation of government over corruption allegations. Kuwaiti [...]

The Price of Empire: Have US policymakers gone crazy?

by Justin Raimondo, source Is there a single region of the world where the United States government isn’t scheming to grab more control, more influence, and have more of a military presence? In Pakistan, a memo has been unearthed from “President” Zardari to Admiral Mike Mullen, head of the joint chiefs of staff, proposing a [...]

Entire US scheme for region defeated

Strategic researcher Habib Fayad to Al-Intiqad by Nabil Al-Mokaddam, Moqawama When the United States entered its forces into Iraq in 2003, the excuse the US had made to invade this Arab country of the grand economic, cultural, and educational capacities vanished. The excuse was ‘spreading democracy and ridding the Iraqi people of the oppressive ruler [...]

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